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Situated in the heart of Merchiston and close to the fashionable area of Bruntsfield, Merchiston Avenue embodies a luxurious private residence nestled discreetly in one of the private broad tree-lined avenues housing Victorian townhouses, Georgian mansions and Edwardian villas set within large gardens.

An extensive range of fashion boutiques, food speciality stores, independent restaurants and bars, spas, galleries and imposing churches steeped in colourful history create a bustling village atmosphere and a culture of diversity. The leafy Bruntsfield Links and the neighbouring Meadows provide 35 acres of scenic parkland popular with locals, with a 400 year golfing history and short-hole course as well as tennis courts, a bowling green and children’s playgrounds.

Famous as Edinburgh’s literary quarter or the more irreverent ‘writer’s block’, Merchiston is presently home to literary giants such as Alexander McCall Smith, JK Rowling and Ian Rankin. Historically it is also the home of many of history’s most impressive writers, inventors, academics and scholars, including John Napier and Robert Louis Stevenson.