Fog House

[5] Mackay records that Robert Burns World Federation urged the Department of Health for Scotland to replace Fog House and the task was left in the hands of the H.M. Office of Works.

The work was either not carried out or the building was lost a second time; the metal 'tree trunk' supports were however rescued and now adorn a garden in the locality.

The correspondence was however in later life one of her most prized possessions and, as stated, the octagonal Ballochmyle Fog House was built in honour of the occasion.

[8][15] Cuthbertson visited in the 1940s and comments on the winding mossy paths by which the 'heather house' was reached, confirming that it was built on the site where the poet first espied Wilhelmina Alexander.

[19] Douglas refers to the fog house as a rustic grotto and states that the first two verses of the Lass of Ballochmyle were recorded on a wood tablet in a facsimile of Burns's handwriting.