What is recorded here
No wonder if the tower still stands at Bridge End in Dalkeith, Midlothian. The facts withhold a date, a owner and a room, but they point to one exact place. A house may have watched the bridge, kept a family warm or marked a boundary before people stopped remembering why.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dalkeith, 6 Bridge End, Tower House as House (period Unassigned). 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.
Dalkeith, 6 Bridge End, Tower House is a medieval tower house believed to have been built in the late 15th or early 16th century, likely by a local landholding family. It is important as an example of domestic architecture from the late medieval period in the Dalkeith area, reflecting the region's historical development and social structure.
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