Castles
- Ferniehirst Castle (sometimes spelt Ferniehurst) was built around 1470 to hold the gate for Scotland and to serve as a base for military raids and cattle-lifting forays. It commands the road to Otterburn and Newcastle. For 50 years in the 20th century, it housed a Youth Hostel, but it has been converted back into a residence.
- Newbattle Abbey or Newbattle Castle near Edinburgh became a secular lordship for the last commendator, Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian (Ker) in 1587.
- Floors Castle is another great monument to the Kerr's success.
- Roxburgh Castle is just across the Tweed from Floors Castle.
- Castle Holydean was destroyed in 1276 and very little of it now remains.
- Cessford Castle, a massive L-plan castle.
- Nisbet House, a 17th century tower house.
- Kersland Castle, a tower house near Dalry in Ayrshire.
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