This is a list of castles in East Lothian.
Name | Type | Date | Condition | Ownership | location | Notes | Picture |
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Auldhame Castle | tower house | 16th century | ruin | Seacliff NT602847 | ![]() | ||
Ballencrieff Castle | tower house | 1507, 1586 | restored | private; next to pig farm | Ballencrieff NT487783 | ![]() | |
Barnes Castle | uncompleted castle | ruin | Haddington NT529766 | Extensive castle planned, but never completed above the vaults. [1] | | ||
The Bass | curtain wall & keep | 16th century | ruin | open for visitors (via boat trip) | Bass Rock NT602873 | later adapted for artillery; stone used to build lighthouse [2] | ![]() |
Black Castle | No remains | Cockburnspath NT738707 | some remains existed until c. 1800 [3] | ||||
Byres Castle | 13th century | No remains | |||||
Dirleton Castle | fortress | 13th century | partly ruined | Historic Scotland | Dirleton NT518840 | ![]() | |
Dunbar Castle | ruin | Dunbar NT67827930 | ![]() | ||||
Fa'side Castle | Tower house (altered keep) | 15th century | Restored 1970s | Private | Tranent NT378710 | Also known as Faside, Fawside and Falside | ![]() |
Fenton Tower | Tower house | 1587 | Restored | Private | North Berwick NT543822 | In use as a hotel, also featured on Balamory | ![]() |
Gamelshiel Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Ruin | Lammermuir Hills NT649648 | ![]() | ||
Garleton Castle | Courtyard castle | 16th century | Partially occupied | Private | Haddington NT509767 | Partially restored with remaining part ruined | ![]() |
Hailes Castle | Keep & ranges | 14th century | Ruin | Historic Scotland | East Linton NT575758 | Ranges and towers 15th-16th century | ![]() |
Innerwick Castle | 14th century | Ruin | Innerwick | ![]() | |||
Keith Marischal | Occupied | ![]() | |||||
Kilspindie Castle | Ruin | ![]() | |||||
Lennoxlove | Occupied | Duke of Hamilton | Open to the public | ![]() | |||
Luffness Castle | Tower house | 16th century | altered | private | Aberlady NT476804 | castle on site from 13th century | |
Markle Castle | Tower house | 14th century | Ruin | NT57957754 | |||
Ormiston Castle | Tower house | 16th century | Ruin | ||||
Penshiel Tower | Ruin | ||||||
Preston Tower | keep | 15th century | ruin | NTS; free access (exterior view & garden & doocot) | Prestonpans, next to Hamilton House NT393742 | Two storeys added in 17th century. Currently in council-maintained grounds. [4] | ![]() |
Redhouse Castle | courtyard castle | 16th century | ruin | free access through market garden | Longniddry NT463770 | ![]() | |
Saltcoats Castle | Courtyard castle | 16th century | Ruin | Gullane | |||
Saltoun Hall or Castle | Elizabethan house | 16th century | occupied | private | Pencaitland NT461685 | building incorporates remnants of 12th-century castle [5] | |
Smeaton House | Courtyard castle | 15th century | Modified | Private | Inveresk | Now part of a farm | |
Stoneypath Tower | tower house | 16th century | restored | Nunraw Abbey NT596713 | |||
Tantallon Castle | courtyard castle | 14th century | ruin | Historic Scotland | North Berwick NT596851 | ![]() | |
Tranent Tower | Tower house | 16th century | Ruin | Tranent | ![]() | ||
Waughton Castle | 14th century | Ruin | Whitekirk | ![]() | |||
Whittingehame Tower | keep | 15th century | Occupied | Balfour family | East Linton NT602733 | ![]() | |
Yester Castle | Castle & keep | 13th century | Ruin | private | Gifford NT556667 | Includes an underground vault known as the Goblin Ha' | ![]() |
Preston Tower is a ruined L-plan keep in the ancient Scottish village of Prestonpans. It is situated within a few metres of two other historic houses, Hamilton House and Northfield House.
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