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Lamington Tower is a late medieval tower house situated in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, dating to the fifteenth or sixteenth century. The structure represents a typical defensive residence of the Scottish Borders and upper Clyde valley region, built during a period of considerable border instability and clan-based territorial control. The tower's robust stone construction and compact plan reflect the practical requirements of landholding families who required both domestic accommodation and fortified protection. Though now ruinous, the surviving stonework provides evidence of the architectural conventions employed by minor nobility and lairds in medieval Scotland.
Lamington Tower is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2629. View the official record →
Lamington Tower is a late medieval tower house situated in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, dating to the fifteenth or sixteenth century. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2629.
Lamington Tower is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM2629.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Devonshaw Hill,fort 500m NE of Woodend Farm (4.5 km), Castle Dykes,earthwork,Roberton (5 km), Hillend,enclosures 250m ENE of (5.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Lamington Tower's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Lamington Tower stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Silurian To Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.