Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Biggar HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No Activities Image (c) www.scran.ac.uk OpeningTime1 10 am to 4 pm OpeningDate1 13/9/2015 OpeningTime2 10 am to 4 pm IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 11574 Refreshments No Street The street address Candymill Postcode ML12 6DT Parking Yes DisabledWC Yes LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brownsbank Cottage Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived southlanarkshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 3436 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.64311,-3.496055; Description An account of the resource <div>Overlooking the Peeblesshire hills close to Biggar, Brownsbank Cottage was the home of writer Hugh MacDiarmid.&nbsp;</div><div>The original interior was restored just as MacDiarmid had left it and contains numerous portraits and photographs of MacDiarmid and a unique collection of memorabilia.&nbsp;</div><div>Past writers-in-residence have included award winning writer and publisher Matthew Fitt and the first Scottish Parliament Writer in Residence James Robertson, author of Booker prize nominated &quot;The Testament of Gideon Mack&quot;.</div>