National Trust places in Edinburgh

One of the oldest buildings on the Royal Mile, a 1617 merchant's tenement with painted ceilings, told through three centuries of Old Town lives.

Walled garden in Balerno with a National Collection of 19th-century shrub roses and the Four Evangelists, yews around 400 years old.

Robert Adam's New Town townhouse of 1796, restored above and below stairs to the Lamont family's day. Closed for conservation work.