Swanston Cottage. View from South.
ED 2531
Description Swanston Cottage. View from South.
Date c. 1950
Catalogue Number ED 2531
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 544737, SC 1225527
Scope and Content Swanston Cottage, Swanston, Edinburgh Swanston Cottage, a short distance from the village, was built by the Edinburgh Corporation Water Trust in 1761 as part of their new waterworks scheme. It became the much-loved summer retreat of the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, from 1867 to 1880. The house, originally a traditional single-storeyed country cottage with a thatched roof, was slated and had an upper storey added in 1820, possibly by the architect William Burn. The bow-windows and a single-storeyed east wing were added in 1867. Thomas Stevenson, father of the author, took the tenancy of the cottage as a summer retreat in 1867. The house and its romantic setting at the foot of the Pentland Hills later became the inspiration of many of Robert Louis Stevenson's poems and novels. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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