It was also part of a chain of peel towers along the Tweed Valley.
Vicarage The vicarage was a large house, built onto the fortified peel tower.
The remains of a peel tower, which was partly destroyed in 1496, stand in the centre of the hamlet.
The present mansion, believed to be built on the site of a 14th-century peel tower, was built in 1719.
The village lies on the course of the Jed Water, and the remains of a peel tower are close by.
There was once a peel tower at Mossfennan.
The original peel tower was probably relatively unchanged until the mid eighteenth century.
The original castle, a peel tower, had once been a stronghold of the Home family.
In the 14th century the landscape was dominated by a peel tower.
The castle was originally part of the line of peel towers along the Tweed Valley.