A towering monument to eccentricity the earliest parts of Kirkbrae house date from 1680 when the house was an Inn, ‘The Baxter’s House of Call’ used by bakers fetching flour from the mills below in Dean Village on the water of Leith. The House appears only 2 storey high from the road but this house in fact clings to a precipice adjacent to Thomas Telford’s viaduct over the Dean Gorge and the house plunges down floor after floor to its lower levels a hundred feet below!