What is recorded here

Old Woodhouselee Castle is a late medieval tower house near Penicuik in Midlothian, built in the fifteenth century for the Scottish nobility and gentry. It still stands as a ruined tower, marking a time when domestic life and defence were woven together in stone. The castle occupies a strategically significant place in the Midlothian landscape and helps preserve the pattern of late medieval settlement in the Lothians.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Old Woodhouselee Castle as Castle (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.

Old Woodhouselee Castle was a medieval stronghold, likely built in the 13th or 14th century by a local noble family in the Scottish Borders region. It is remembered for its strategic position and as an example of early defensive architecture in a turbulent period of Scottish history.

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