What is recorded here

Elshieleshields Tower stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a sixteenth-century tower house later shaped into an eighteenth-century home. Stone walls that once defended a valley now hold chambers where ordinary life unfolded across centuries. The building still exists at a precise point, waiting for someone to imagine the hands that built it and the feet that crossed its floors.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Elshieleshields Tower as House (18th Century), Tower House (16th Century). 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.

Elshieleshields Tower was built as a 16th-century tower house and later modified in the 18th century as a house. It is important as a surviving example of Scottish domestic architecture and land use in a rural setting.

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