What is recorded here

Windydoors Tower stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house later shaped into a post-medieval bastle, its stones still catching the wind that gives the place its name. The official record pins the site to the nearest metre, yet it says nothing about whether a stranger may climb its stairs or touch its walls. That absence leaves the tower belonging to itself, waiting for someone brave enough to ask permission of the stone.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Windydoors Tower as Bastle (post Medieval), 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.

Windydoors Tower is a medieval tower house and post-medieval bastle located in Scotland, likely built by a local landholding family for defense during the late medieval period. It is remembered as an example of the transition from traditional tower houses to more fortified bastle houses in response to 16th- and 17th-century border conflicts and agrarian unrest.

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