What is recorded here

Dalhousie Castle rose around 1450 from red stone quarried across the South Esk River, overlaying older foundations that stretch back eight centuries. Its walls still hold rope marks from a windowless dungeon where prisoners were lowered by rope, and the moat retains the holes where a drawbridge once swung shut against invaders. Ramsay knights fought beside Robert the Bruce, withstood Henry IV, and later changed sides under Cromwell, while Mary Queen of Scots found allies among them at Langside. The castle has absorbed war, loyalty, betrayal and marriage, keeping each event pressed into its stone like a seal in wax.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dalhousie Castle as Country House (period Unassigned), Tower House (15th Century). 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.

Dalhousie Castle, a 15th-century tower house in East Lothian, Scotland, was built by the powerful Home family, later Earls of Dalhousie, and served as their principal seat. The castle is historically significant as the ancestral home of the Homes, a prominent Scottish noble family with political and military influence, and is remembered for its architectural character and long-standing association with Scottish heritage.

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