Peffermill House
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Peffermill House
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 17 Feb 2011
Standing on a haugh of the Braid Burn to the south of Duddingston Loch and lands of Prestonfield, this magnificent house is described in Nigel Tranter's 'The Fortified House In Scotland' as "a very typical laird's house of the first half of the 17th century". He points out that before modern drainage the surrounding marshlands (described in the 12thC foundation charter of Holyrood Abbey as the 'common myre') would have constituted its primary defence. The original owner was Edward Elgar who acquired the lands from the Prestons of Craigmillar. A carved panel on the north side bears the date 1636.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.932547
Longitude
-3.148884