What is recorded here

Falside Castle stands in East Lothian as a layered survivor, wearing a medieval tower house beneath a 17th-century house and dovecote. Stone stairs may still cut through chambers where birds once crowded above human rooms, mixing breath, feather and lamp smoke. The castle does not need a heroic death or famous owner to be strange. It is a place where domestic life kept adding rooms, functions and centuries without erasing the first sharp tower.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Falside Castle as Dovecot (17th Century), House (17th 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.

Falside Castle is a medieval tower house in Scotland, with later 17th-century additions including a dovecot and house. It is important as a surviving example of a fortified residence reflecting the social and architectural history of lowland Scotland.

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