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Winkston Tower House

Lairds House (16th Century), Tower House (16th Century)

Site Name Winkston Tower House

Classification Lairds House (16th Century), Tower House (16th Century)

Canmore ID 51552

Site Number NT24SW 35

NGR NT 24496 43070

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Peebles
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Tweeddale
  • Former County Peebles-shire

Archaeology Notes

NT24SW 35 24496 43070.

(NT 2447 4307) Winkston (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map (1965)

The old house of Winkston stands immediately behind the present farmhouse of the same name. In origin the building is a tower-house of mid-16th century date. (The re-used lintel above the doorway, is largely the result of an extensive restoration carried out in the second quarter of the 18th century, when an attempt was made to convert the tower into a symmetrically-planned residence modelled on the typical small laird's house of the period. Certain alterations were also made in more recent times to adapt the structure for use as a dairy and storehouse.

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1962

NT 2450 4307. The tower-house is generally as described. There is nothing to be seen at the published site at NT 2447 4307, which originated from local information supplied to the OS surveyors in 1909 and 1962, stating that the original building (alleged 12thc) stood in the plantation behind the farm.

Visited by OS (JLD) 17 May 1962 and (BS) 27 September 1974

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Sbc Note

Visibility: Evidence for this site, or the origins of this site, comes from documentary sources. Nothing may be visible at this location.

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