Mavisbank House — Attraction in Scotland

The surrounding countryside and walks in the area are great but I found Mavisbank house itself to be a little too ruined to be worth visiting. Where some ruins (like penicuik house) retain the grandeur of the original building this has been lost at Mavisbank. To try and 'preserve' the crumbling ruins it has been surrounded by metal fencing, propped up with endless sections of brick, is very very overgrown and has been supported in a variety of unflattering ways. The history of the place is great but this is hard to get a feel for in the...

Went here as a joke with freinds, as a medium being here was tough and overwhelming, I felt like I was heating up too... After about 15 minutes I needed to turn back and I said “something bad are in those walls” and we done research. I never knew it used to be a mental asylum, or that it burned down! I learned so much as I loved exploring- I even found a frog I...

Beautiful and lonely and desolate. It’s sad to see what was a splendid house fade away day by day. The Mavisbank Trust have been working for two decades now to try and save this unique piece of Scottish history. I hope...