What is recorded here

Tushielaw Tower is a sixteenth-century tower house built around 1550 by the Scott family in Selkirkshire. It stands as a substantial four-storey stone tower with narrow windows and robust masonry, shaped by the border raids and feuding of its time. The building is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland, preserving the defensive domestic architecture that once anchored local life on the Anglo-Scottish frontier.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tushielaw Tower as Building(s) (medieval), Enclosure(s) (medieval), 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.

Tushielaw Tower is a medieval tower house in the Borders region of Scotland, likely built in the 15th or 16th century by a local landholding family, possibly the Maxwells or Johnstons, who were prominent in the area. It is remembered for its strategic position and as an example of the defensive architecture typical of the turbulent Border Reivers period.

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