Provand's Lordship

The oldest house in Glasgow sits proudly opposite Glasgow Cathedral. Built in 1741, it’s the only one to survive from the medieval city and has been extensively restored to give a real flavour of life in medieval times. Bedecked in  seventeenth-century Scottish furniture you can experience what a domestic interior of around 1700 would have looked like, as well as admire the medieval fabric of the building. A room on the first floor contains a display about Cuthbert Simson, a priest who lived in the house in the early sixteenth century. Behind the house is the St Nicholas garden, a medical herb garden, containing plants used in the fifteenth century to “cure” all manner if ailments.