What is recorded here

Makerstoun House stands where a medieval tower, a post-medieval country house, and a 17th-century sundial have shared one address beside the River Tweed. The house has watched a whole parish shrink from more than a thousand people to a small scattered community, and it still faces the water that carries away what the land no longer keeps.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Makerstoun House as Country House (post Medieval), Sundial (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.

Makerstoun House, a medieval tower house in the Borders region of Scotland, was likely built in the 14th or 15th century by a local noble family, possibly the Makars or a related lineage. It is remembered for its historical association with the region's turbulent past and for the 17th-century sundial that reflects the house's continued use and adaptation over time.

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