The Environs of Craigniillar. 



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modernised, by which "improvements" its steeply 

 pitched roof was destroyed, and its crow-stepped 

 gables were hidden beneath a mass of superincumbent 

 masonry. It still 

 presents, with but 

 slight change, the 

 usual characteristics 

 of the " single " 

 house of the 17th 

 century — a type of 

 building of which 

 the author of ' The 

 Heart of Mid- 

 Lothian' speaks 

 somewhat disparag- 

 ingly. Owing to its 

 sequestered situation 

 and apparently un- 

 eventful history, Liberton House is still comparatively 

 unknown. Until quite recently, even those who lived 

 under its roof had no suspicion of the many features 

 of interest that lay concealed under modern plaster 



Peep of Liberton House. 



