What is recorded here

Nether Horsburgh Castle is a ruined 16th-century tower house near Cardrona, in the Scottish Borders, built and occupied by the Borders family of Horsburgh before diminished fortunes forced a sale to Sir Robert Stewart of Shillingshaws. Three walls still rise about 12 metres above the valley floor, overlooking the River Tweed with the Hope Burn flowing just east of the site. The lost courtyard and ranges have mostly vanished, leaving only a fragment of the northern boundary and a doorway that once opened into a vaulted cellar studded with slit windows.

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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