Edinburgh, 356 Castlehill, Cannonball House

Cannonball House stands at 356 Castlehill as a seventeenth-century tenement later rebuilt into a twentieth-century school. It is the kind of building where children learned to read above rooms that once held ordinary lives, and where a flying stone may have struck the wall before anyone thought to name the house after it. The fact that it is called Cannonball House suggests the impact became local legend, not merely damage. Whether the house remembers a battle, an accident or a boy's exaggerated story, the name still turns a plain address into a place where violence and childhood share the same walls.