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Grangemouth, Kerse House

House (period Unassigned), Tower House (15th Century)

What is recorded here

Kerse House stands in Grangemouth as a fifteenth-century tower house, its stones unchanged since medieval times. The structure still marks the Falkirk landscape, though no public entrance is certain. Its survival suggests it served people who valued height, defence, or visibility above all else.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Grangemouth, Kerse House as 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.
Kerse House in Grangemouth was built in the 15th century as a tower house, likely by a local landholding family, and is remembered as an example of early Scottish domestic architecture. Its survival contributes to understanding regional building practices and social structures in medieval Scotland.

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