What is recorded here

Gordon Castle, Tower stands in Moray as a medieval tower house later shaped into an 18th and 19th century country house. Its stones may have shaken during border wars before they polished themselves into domestic comfort. The tower remembers violence; the house remembers pride. Both layers still breathe through the same walls.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Gordon Castle, Tower as Country House (18th Century) - (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.

Gordon Castle Tower was originally a medieval tower house, later incorporated into an 18th-century country house. It is important as a surviving example of the evolution of Scottish domestic architecture from the medieval to the Georgian period.

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