What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Windydoors Tower as Bastle (post 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.
Windydoors Tower is a medieval tower house and post-medieval bastle located in Scotland, likely built by a local landholding family for defense during the late medieval period. It is remembered as an example of the transition from traditional tower houses to more fortified bastle houses in response to 16th- and 17th-century border conflicts and agrarian unrest.
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Places near here
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Photo: Walter Baxter · CC BY-SA 2.0