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.