What is recorded here

Amisfield Tower is a medieval tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, built for the Charteris family from the 16th century and still occupied today. Its upper floors twist into square and round turrets, with winding stairs climbing more than twenty metres to a final watch chamber. The Charteris lost the estate to debt in the 1640s, regained it in 1677, and lived there until the 19th century, while later descendants remain resident after a 20th-century restoration.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Amisfield Tower 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.

Amisfield Tower, a medieval tower house in East Lothian, Scotland, was likely built in the late 15th or early 16th century by the Cockburn family, a prominent local landowning family. It is remembered as an example of a well-preserved Scottish tower house and for its historical association with the Cockburns, who played a role in the region's history.

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