What is recorded here
Broom House stands in the Scottish Borders as a layered place where a medieval tower house and a 19th-century house share one identity. Unknown human remains belong beside them, giving the site a quiet edge that no visitor should trivialise. The house may have been lived in, feared, forgotten or reused, but it still holds more than stone.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Broom House as House (19th Century), Human Remains (period Unknown), 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.
Broom House is a 19th-century structure located near the site of a medieval tower house, indicating possible continuity of occupation or estate management in the area. Its significance lies in the combination of historic building remains and the presence of human remains, suggesting both domestic and possibly burial or ritual use over different periods.
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