
What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Nether Horsburgh 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.
Nether Horsburgh Castle was a medieval tower house, likely built in the 15th or 16th century by a local landholding family in the Horsburgh area of East Lothian, Scotland. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture of the Scottish Borders and Lowlands during a period of frequent conflict and territorial rivalry.
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Photo: Walter Baxter · CC BY-SA 2.0