Peffermill House was built in 1636 by Edgar Wallace of Wedderlie in the Merse, a family from Berwickshire.
"This tall, imposing and rather dark house is surrounded by a large wooded garden on the south side of Duddingston Loch, and was originally part of a mill complex, which made paper in the late 18th century, known as Paper Milne, although Peffermill, in the old 'Scoto-Saxon' (poffre-mill) is said to mean 'the mill of the dark muddy stream' - which is the Braid Burn that runs through eastern garden of the house.
"This tall, imposing and rather dark house is surrounded by a large wooded garden on the south side of Duddingston Loch, and was originally part of a mill complex, which made paper in the late 18th century, known as Paper Milne, although Peffermill, in the old 'Scoto-Saxon' (poffre-mill) is said to mean 'the mill of the dark muddy stream' - which is the Braid Burn that runs through eastern garden of the house.
