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Woolandslee Tower

Building(s) (period Unassigned), Enclosure(s) (period Unassigned), Sheepfold (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)
Woolandslee Tower
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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Woolandslee Tower as Building(s) (period Unassigned), Enclosure(s) (period Unassigned), Sheepfold (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.
Woolandslee Tower is a medieval tower house, likely built in the late 15th or early 16th century by a local landholding family, though specific builders or occupants are not recorded. It is remembered as a rare surviving example of a tower house in a region where such structures are uncommon, offering insight into medieval domestic architecture and land use in rural Scotland.

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Photo: Trevor Littlewood · CC BY-SA 2.0