What is recorded here

Scotsbrig is a medieval tower house near Ecclefechan where Thomas Carlyle wrote to his brother about a fairy knoll, grand peats and the best barley in the country. The family turned that bad-ordered shell into a home for decades, adding rooms and fitting it for farm life through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It still stands as a listed farmhouse, carrying the scent of brook water, bog-hay and the quiet pride of people who made a place their own.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Scotsbrig as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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