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Scene of Sir Walter's first poetry on market

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20060920
Author:ALASTAIR JAMIESON

SIR Walter Scott's retreat near Edinburgh is up for sale for offers over GBP 1.75 million.

Barony House, in Lasswade, Midlothian, where the author wrote his first poetry, has been put on the market by its current owners through the estate agents Savills.

Scott rented the six-bedroom house for GBP 30 a year in the early 1800s from its original owners. He wrote the opening stanza of The Lay of the Last Minstrel, his first great poetic success, while staying at the house, then known as Lasswade Cottage. He also wrote the novel The Gray Brother, which celebrates the countryside around Lasswade.

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