What is recorded here

Horsburgh Castle stands as a ruined sixteenth-century tower beside Nether Horsburgh Farm, its thick stone walls surviving only in fragments after the Horsburgh family sold it away. The building once rose four stories above a vaulted cellar, with a staircase hidden inside the east wall and a courtyard stretching north and east before decay took it. Now three walls remain, the eastern gone entirely to ground level, while the Hope Burn flows nearby and the River Tweed gleams far below in the valley. The castle belongs to the Borders still, not through ownership but through shape, memory and the life that vanished from its rooms.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Horsburgh Castle as Toll House (post 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.

Horsburgh Castle, located in the Borders region of Scotland, was built in the late 16th century by the Horsburgh family, a prominent local landholding family. The castle is remembered for its strategic position near the English border and its association with the turbulent history of the Scottish Marches.

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