What is recorded here

Little Clyde in South Lanarkshire is a medieval tower house that later became a working farmstead, recorded in the national heritage register with a point accurate to ten metres. The tower part suggests defensive origins, while the farmhouse and farmstead labels suggest the same land kept producing food long after wars faded. Whether people still walk its fields or only watch from a distance, the building has survived by changing its purpose rather than disappearing.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Little Clyde as Farmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned), 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.

Little Clyde is a medieval tower house located in Scotland, likely built between the 14th and 16th centuries as a defensive residence for a local landholding family. It is remembered as an example of the type of fortified structure common in rural Scottish landscapes during the late medieval period.

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