Scotland · Restored
Cramond Tower
Cramond Tower is a late medieval, four-storey tower house in the village of Cramond, north‑west of Edinburgh. Built as a compact defensive residence, it later served as a domestic dwelling and has been restored into a private house.
Its prime
1500
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1500
What Cramond Tower looked like in its prime.
A compact, nearly square four‑storey stone tower house about 25 feet on each side, with masonry walls up to five feet thick and a pitched roof. A round stair turret projects from the south‑east corner. Narrow windows and small slit openings puncture the thick walls; the tower presents a simple vertical silhouette. At prime the tower stood with a small cluster of service outbuildings to the west on the edge of the village close to the Roman fort at Cramond.
Its story
The story of Cramond Tower.
Cramond Tower is a fifteenth-century tower house in the village of Cramond, north-west of Edinburgh. Nearly square, around 25 feet on each side with walls up to five feet thick, the four-storey tower has a round staircase protruding at its south-east corner. It was at one stage part of the bishop of Dunkeld's summer residence.
In 1978 the tower was acquired by Eric Jamieson, an amateur antiquarian, and between 1979 and 1981 it was restored by architects Robert Hurd & Partners into a private residence, the pitched roof re-erected as part of the work and a stone extension added on the east side in the 1990s. It is a category B listed building.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1500.
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