Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 560868
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/560868
Redbraes Castle was the seat of the Humes of Polwarth from at least the sixteenth century until the construction of Marchmont House in the mid-eighteenth century. Today, only a fragment of wall belonging to a later wing now survives, although the outline of the moat and two complete wings existed in the middle of the nineteenth century, when they were depicted on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map of Berwickshire (1862).
The castle was probably a tower house, a fortified structure designed to withstand the regional and national conflicts that were commonplace in this area from the medieval period onwards.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
