Kirkgunzeon

Drumcoltran Tower in Kirkgunzeon, Scotland

The lordship of Kirkcunzeon passed from the Herries family to a minor branch of the Maxwells of Caerlaverock when one of Lord Maxwell's sons married Agnes Herries in 1550. The couple may have built Drumcoltran Tower soon after, but the building history is not clear. Drumcoltran is an archetypal L-shaped tower house, although unusually it has rounded corners instead of the more common angled cor…