DoocotThe doocot is the second largest example in Edinburgh, and once contained nearly 2000 sandstone nestboxes. Its purpose would have been to keep the local laird in meat throughout the year, but local farmers would have suffered as the pigeons fed on their land. The doocot was re-roofed in 2006. The doocot and former walled garden are on the north side of the burn and south of Hermitage Drive. In the 12th century Henri de Brad lived in a tower house on the crags above where Hermitage House is now. He had lands which extended to the Pentland Hills, where the source of the Braid Burn is. The tower house developed into a fortified castle, but all that is left now is the doocot and the remains of the walled garden. |
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