St Margaret's Cottage

St Margaret's cottage is located in a secluded setting on the edge of Coldingham Conservation Village in rural Berwickshire, Scotland. It has a charming south-facing garden completely walled and hedged, and is in a particularly peaceful country lane with pleasant walks nearby. The cottage nestles in a slight hillside, and the sea can be seen from the driveway, which is lined with shrubs and flowers. The novelist William Tirebuck lived at St Margaret̢۪s in the late 1800's. One of his early works, Miss Grace of All Souls, was praised by none other than Tolstoy who considered some of the passages as among 'the best works of English fiction'. Inspired, perhaps, by this glowing tribute, he decided in 1894 to devote himself entirely to novel writing. To this end, he took St Margaret̢۪s Cottage where he was looked after by his devoted sister and produced many of his later works.