[2] Following the rebuilding of the roof, the property was put on the market for sale by Edinburgh Council in 2017 listed as a "Residential development opportunity".

[5] The house is located on a crag in Lochend Park, with steep slopes down to a small loch on its west side.

This loch forms a natural hollow in the local topography, and with no outlet, is effectively a large puddle, whose depth varies according to rainfall.

However, even by olden standards the quality of the water was poor, being largely stagnant, and Leith people preferred to use local wells instead.

[7] James IV of Scotland came to the Lochend to hunt wildfowl in September 1507, and four men were paid to row a boat on the "loch of Restalrig" to start the birds.