Historic houses · North East England
Wallace's Tower
Wallace's Tower in England North East, United Kingdom.
Walter Baxter — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Wallace's Tower is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Wallace's Tower is a ruined 16th-century L-plan tower house, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south west Kelso, Scottish Borders, Scotland, in Roxburgh, west of the River Teviot.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
Architecture
The tower comprised a main block, with a vaulted basement, and a stair wing, with a tower added at a corner. The main tower was rectangular, with the wings on its north. One vaulted cellar, which measured 28.5 ft by 16.5 ft, had two aumbries in the north west wall. There was a service-stair to the north tower, and a door into a vaulted chamber (measuring almost 12 ft by over 11 ft with an aumbry in the south west gable) the lowest storey of the south wing. The tower is constructed of freestone rubble. Its windows, which are small, have rounded arises.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 55.5671, -2.4771
- District
- Scottish Borders
- Postcode
- TD5 8NA
- Parliamentary constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Sources
- wikidata: Q107734471 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Wallace's Tower (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Wallace's Tower?
- Wallace's Tower is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.5671°, -2.4771°.
- Is Wallace's Tower wheelchair accessible?
- Partially — OpenStreetMap notes limited wheelchair access at Wallace's Tower. Check ahead for specific facilities.