What is recorded here
Redheugh Tower is a medieval tower house in the Scottish Borders. Its sharp stone edges still cut through the border landscape, waiting for footsteps that have not touched its threshold in centuries. The tower keeps its own time, measuring years in rain and silence rather than human memory.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Redheugh Tower as Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Redheugh Tower, a medieval tower house in Scotland, was built in the late 15th or early 16th century, likely by the Maxwell family, who were prominent in the region. It is remembered as a strategic stronghold near the River Nith and as an example of late medieval defensive architecture in southern Scotland.
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