What is recorded here

Colinton Castle stands on Colinton Road as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by centuries of Edinburgh life. Whether it guarded a road, sheltered a family or watched the fields, the structure still belongs to the city and remembers the people who shaped it.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Colinton Road, Colinton 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.

Colinton Castle, a medieval tower house in Edinburgh, was built in the late 15th or early 16th century by the Colinton family, a prominent Scottish landholding family. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and residential architecture typical of the Scottish Borders and Lowlands during the medieval period.

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