What is recorded here

Calderwood Castle rose as a rectangular tower house on a precipice above the Rotten Calder Water in the early fifteenth century, likely built by the Maxwell family to watch the glen. Storms broke its extraordinary thick middle wall in January 1773, ending the medieval tower after more than two centuries of standing guard. The Maxwells rebuilt beside the ruins, later adding a Gothic Revival wing with a fifty-foot octagonal tower, until the whole estate passed to co-operative owners who opened the glen to public delight.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Calderwood Castle as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Calderwood Castle was built by the Calderwood family in the 15th or 16th century and is remembered as a historic tower house associated with the Clan Calderwood in East Lothian, Scotland. It is important as a surviving example of medieval Scottish domestic architecture.

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