What is recorded here

Sauchie Tower rose between 1430 and 1440 for Sir James Schaw, a royal comptroller who married into the Sauchie inheritance. Pink sandstone blocks, pinned with oyster shells, form plain outside walls that hide ornate fireplaces, bench-seated window recesses and private chambers within. A circular stair still turns beside a guard chamber, while a hexagonal cap-house with an intact pyramidal roof crowns the top. The 1750s fire took upper floors, but the tower kept its shape, its rooms and its quiet rank.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sauchie 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.

Sauchie Tower is a medieval tower house believed to have been built by the Drummond family in the 15th or 16th century. It is remembered as a historic example of Scottish tower house architecture and for its potential connections to the broader history of the Drummond estates in central Scotland.

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