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Tower

Farmhouse (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)(possible)

What is recorded here

Tower stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a nineteenth-century farmhouse that may have grown from a medieval tower house. The distinction between common home and defensible refuge still haunts the site, inviting wonder about how much danger shaped its walls before comfort took over.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tower as Farmhouse (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)(possible). 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.

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