This is a list of castles in the Scottish Borders in Scotland.

List

Name Type Date Condition Ownership Location Notes Picture Ayton Castle Occupied Billie Castle Courtyard castle Ruin Borthwick Castle L-plan castle Site Near Duns Branxholme Castle Tower house Occupied Cessford Castle Ruin Corsbie Castle16th century Ruin Near Gordon, Scottish Borders Cranshaws Tower Occupied Cavers CastleTower 1200 Ruin Hawick, Detached, Borders Drochil Castle Ruin Dryhope Tower Ruin Duns Castle Occupied Edrington Castle Ruin Evelaw Tower L-plan 16th century Ruin Fast Castle courtyard castle Ruin Hall family open: free Coldingham Fatlips Castle Undergoing restoration Ferniehirst Castle Occupied Floors Castle house 1721 Occupied Duke of Roxburghe Kelso ruins of Roxburgh castle in the grounds Fulton Tower L-plan castle 16th century Ruin Greenknowe Tower Ruin Hermitage Castle keep Ruin Historic Scotland Newcastleton Hume Castle Ruin Greenlaw Jedburgh Castle demolished 1409 Jedburgh Replaced by a baronial-style jail Kirkhope Tower Occupied Lamberton Castle No remains Lanton Tower Tower House16th centuryOccupied Lauder Tower Tower House 15th century No remains Mangerton Tower Tower House16th centuryRuin Mervinslaw Pele Pele tower Ruin Muircleuch Tower Ruins Neidpath Castle keep 14th century Semi-ruinous private ownership; open regularly Peebles Extensively remodelled in 16th centuryCoventry, p. 329 Newark Castle Ruin Nisbet House House 1630 Restoration Private Duns West Tower added 1774 Old Lauder Castle11th CenturyNo remains Old Thirlestane Castle Ruins Peebles Castle 12th century No remains Peebles Posso Tower 16th century Ruin Roxburgh Castle Ruin Smailholm Tower Historic Scotland Thirlestane Castle Occupied Traquair House fortified house occupied private ownership; open regularly Tushielaw Tower Tower house 16th century Ruin Venlaw Occupied Wallace's Tower L-plan castle 16th century Ruin Wedderburn Castle Occupied Whitslaid Tower Ruin

See also Castles in Scotland List of castles in Scotland List of listed buildings in the Scottish Borders

Notes

References Coventry, Martin (2001) The Castles of Scotland, 3rd Ed. Scotland: Goblinshead Coventry, Martin (2010) Castles of the Clans Scotland: Goblinshead Pattullo, Nan (1974) Castles, Houses and Gardens of Scotland Edinburgh: Denburn Press