What is recorded here

Houndwood House stands in the Scottish Borders as a layered place where a medieval tower house predates a post-medieval country house and a seventeenth-century inscribed stone. The change in form suggests that one family or one local power line kept returning to the same ground, rebuilding it as taste and danger shifted. A house that outlives its own shape may have been loved, defended, abandoned and remembered before it became a name on a list.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Houndwood House as Country House (post Medieval), Inscribed Stone (17th 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.

Houndwood House is a medieval tower house in Scotland, later expanded into a country house, with an inscribed stone dating to the 17th century. It is remembered for its historical continuity and as an example of evolving Scottish domestic architecture.

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