Barony House has changed a lot since the days when the great writer lived here, but it’s not hard to see how he was inspired by these beautiful surroundings.
Sir Walter Scott is one of the great figures in Scottish literary history — and architectural history, come to that. One of the most successful writers of the 19th century — the creator of Ivanhoe, Heart of Midlothian and dozens more masterpieces — built a house in the Boders called Abbotsford, whose…