What is recorded here

Dryhope Tower rises from the Yarrow valley as a ruined four-storey peel, its basement vault still bridging the space where the ground and first floors once lived. Built for the Scotts of Dryhope under a 1535 Border defence statute, it gave Mary Scott, the Flower of Yarrow, a home before marriage carried the place into the hands of Wat Scott of Kirkhope. King James VI slighted it in 1592 after Wat’s feud with the crown, yet the tower reappeared by 1613, proving that stone memory can outlast royal anger.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dryhope Tower as 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.

Dryhope Tower, a 16th-century tower house in the Scottish Borders, was built by the Maxwell family, a powerful Border clan known for their role in the turbulent history of the region. The tower is important as a well-preserved example of a defensive Border tower house and reflects the strategic and social structures of late medieval Scotland.

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