Fulton Tower
| Fulton Tower | |
|
Roxburghshire | |
|---|---|
 The remains of Fulton Tower | |
| Type: | Tower house |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NT605158 |
| Location: | 55°26’5"N, 2°37’30"W |
| History | |
| Built 16th century | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Ruins |
Fulton Tower is a small, ruined 16th century tower house on the Rule Water in Roxburghshire. Its ruin stands about a mile and a half south of Bedrule (and five miles south-west of Jedburgh), on the east side of the road beside the river.
The tower is Category B listed.[1]
The remaining tower is in an oblong plan, 2 feet 9 inches by 30 feet 6 inches, of which two storeys survive incomplete but standing to an average height of 18 feet, built of roughly coursed harled rubble. There are also the remains of a circular stair-tower, the greater part of which has been demolished.
The ground floor shows two oval gun-loops facing northwest and a fireplace.
In 1570, the lands of Fulton passed by marriage to William Turnbull of Bedrule, and it is assumed that his successors built the tower.
Two miles to the north stands Bedrule Castle and four miles south-east is Kilnsike Tower.
References
- ↑ Fulton Tower, Hawick - British Listed Buildings
- CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Fulton Tower
- Fulton Tower on CastleUK