How built Hamilton house scotland?

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No one knows but located on the southern margin of Prestonpans, at the centre of the old village of Preston is Hamilton House, built 1626 for Sir John Hamilton, brother of Thomas Hamilton (1563 - 1637), the 1st Earl of Haddington. Sometimes called Lord Magdalen's House after the Hamilton law lord of that name, this two-storey house, which boasts crow-step gables, is of double L-plan format forming three sides of a courtyard. Set in each corner of the courtyard is a turret; on the right side an octagonal stair-turret incorporating the entrance and on the left a small round turret set at first-floor level. Above the door is the inscription 'Praised be the Lord My Strenth and My Redeimer'. During the 1960s, the woodwork of the dormer windows was decorated in the style of the tempera work of the nearby Northfield House.

Why is this question under Glasgow? It is East of Edinburgh.
Prestonpans lies on the south coast of the Firth of Forth and looks across a broad bay formed by this bank of the river towards Leith and Edinburgh, both eight miles to the west. More locally it lies two and a half miles north east of Musselburgh, and a mile south west of Cockenzie.

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Information on Hamilton House can be found here...
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features...

Hamilton House, built 1626 for Sir John Hamilton, brother of Thomas Hamilton, the 1st Earl of Haddington

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