What is recorded here

Cranshaws Castle is a surviving 15th-century tower house still occupied beside Cranshaws village, marked by more than five centuries of competing claims. Douglas, Swinton and Oliphant hands kept taking it back and forth, suggesting the stone was never really at rest. A family may have lived there through every change of name, hearing the borders argue themselves in the walls long after the men who argued them had forgotten the shape of the room.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cranshaws 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.

Cranshaws Castle is a medieval tower house located in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, and was likely built in the 15th or 16th century by a local landholding family. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture of the Scottish Borders during a period of frequent conflict.

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