Location of Moubray House in Edinburgh city centre
Moubray House, 51 and 53 High Street, is one of the oldest buildings on the Royal Mile, and one of the oldest occupied residential buildings in Edinburgh, Scotland. The façade dates from the early 17th century, built on foundations laid c. 1477.
The tenement is noted for its interiors, including a Renaissance board-and-beam painted ceiling discovered in 1999,[1] a plaster ceiling with exotic fruit and flower mouldings with the arms of Pringle of Galashiels (five escallops on a saltire) dated 1650 painted on the wall, and a wooden barrel-vaulted attic apartment which is expressed on the roofline.[2][3]
Notable people associated with the house include Scotland's first eminent portrait painter George Jamesone, the English spy and writer Daniel Defoe, who was instrumental in the passing of the 1707 Act of Union with England, and Archibald Constable, proprietor of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Moubray House is designated a Category A listed building by Historic Scotland.
^Bath, Michael, Renaissance Painting in Scotland, NMS (2003), p.245
^RCAMS Inventory of Monuments in Edinburgh (HMSO: Edinburgh, 1951), p. 96.
^"Edinburgh's Moubray House to be gifted to Historic Scotland". 25 August 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
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