What is recorded here
Medieval tower stones still stand inside the 18th-century farmhouse at 142 Liberton Drive, a rare layer where old defense and later domestic life became one building. The tower may have watched fields, resisted raiders or simply marked power before the farmhouse gave the same ground kitchens, hearths and ordinary years. Whatever it first served, it has continued to hold shape, memory and human presence beside Edinburgh.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, 142 Liberton Drive, Tower House as Farmhouse (18th Century), 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.
The Tower House at 142 Liberton Drive, Edinburgh, is a medieval structure, likely built in the 15th or 16th century, and later modified or used as a farmhouse in the 18th century. It is remembered as a rare surviving example of a tower house in the Edinburgh area, reflecting the defensive and domestic architecture of lowland Scotland.
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