History
Internationally renowned, Mavisbank is Scotland’s most important small country house and the primary example of a ‘villa’ built within commuting distance of a town or city. It was designed and constructed in the 1720’s in a collaboration between Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, a leading figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, and architect William Adam. Following a fire in 1973 the house, which is in unknown ownership, has remained an unstable ruin and its designed landscape largely neglected and difficult to access.
