What is recorded here

Newbyres Castle was a 16th-century tower house in Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, built by Michael Borthwick of Glengelt after he acquired the land in 1543. Its roughly triangular plan sat beside deeply worn water-courses, giving the rubble-and-freestone tower a naturally defended shape. The castle survived into the 20th century as an unsound ruin before the local council demolished it in 1963 for public safety, leaving only a corner and a mound of overgrown rubble where Borthwick’s gun-looped house once stood.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Newbyres 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.

Newbyres Castle is a medieval tower house located in Scotland, built during the late 15th or early 16th century, likely by a local landholding family. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture typical of the Scottish Borders during the medieval period.

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