What is recorded here

Breconside began as a Johnstone tower built between 1590 and 1592, its thick walls facing south because danger came from that direction. It later passed through Chalmers blood and Carruthers marriage before becoming the quiet farmhouse still hidden in Dryfesdale. The tower did not announce itself; it waited, held breath, and gave up its shape only when people stopped fearing what the hills might send.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Breconside as Farmhouse (19th Century), Farmstead (19th 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.

Breconside was a medieval tower house, later associated with a 19th-century farmstead and farmhouse, though specific builders or holders are not recorded. Its importance lies in its architectural evolution and as a rare surviving example of a medieval structure in a rural Scottish setting.

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