Lee Tower

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(NT 3285 3969) Tower (NR)

OS 6" map (1964)

Lee Tower: The shell of this small 16th c tower-house measures 32' by 23'9" over walls 3'9" thick; the N and E walls are obscured by two farm buildings, most of the W gable has been torn out, and the upper floors have gone, leaving evidence only for the basement and first floor. The interior is full of debris and the building is in the last stages of dilapidation. The masonry is of whinstone rubble and some of the margins appear to have been of dressed stone. The doorway seen built up at the S end of the E wall admitted to the vaulted basement, and opened near the foot of a short stair which rose against this E wall to the first floor.

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1959

Lee Tower is as described. It is in a very dangerous condition and a further portion of the E wall has collapsed. The owner states that the name should be 'Ley Tower'.

Visited by OS (EGC) 20 June 1961 and (SFS) 6 September 1974.

Scheduled as 'Lee Tower... the lower one and a half storeys of a defensible structure that may have been either a small tower house, or more likely a bastle.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 8 September 2003.