NT27SE 109.00 28323 71654

NT27SE 109.01 283 716 garden; sundial

(NT 2832 7164) Peffermill (NR)
OS 6" map, (1966)

Peffermill was built c. 1636 (the date on a pediment) by Edward Edgar. It became a farmhouse, and subsequently was divided into small dwellings, but it was restored as a single tenement a few years before 1920. It is L- shaped on plan and 3 storeys and a garret in height. The walls are of harled rubble.
The ONB (1852) states that there are some indications of Peffermill having been surrounded by a ditch or moat.
Name Book 1852; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1887-92; RCAHMS 1929, visited 1920.

As described above. In good condition and in use as a dwelling house. There are now no signs of a moat.
Visited by OS (J F C) 14 December 1953.

As described in previous field report.
Visited by OS (S F S) 3 December 1975.



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References
Knight Frank and Rutley (1992 )
Peffermill House, Edinburgh: [sale particulars],
Edinburgh,
MacGibbon and Ross, D and T (1887-92 )
The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries,
5v, Edinburgh, Vol. 2, 167-9,
Ordnance Survey ( )
Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey
Book No. 15, 30,
RCAHMS (1929 )
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Tenth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the counties of Midlothian and West Lothian,
Edinburgh, 119-20, No. 155,