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Lamb's House
Unknown, 1960, Press cutting
Lamb's House
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37980
Title
Lamb's House
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1960
Size
10.1 x 13.9 cm
Type
Press cutting
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The text says 'On 19th August 1561 Mary, Queen of Scots, landed at Leith Shore after thirteen years in France and ''remainit in Andro Lamb's Hous be the space of ane hour'' (Edinburgh Diurnal) before proceeding to Holyroodhouse. The present house appears to be of rather later date, but was probably the finest - as it certainly is today - in the old town of Leith.
Lamb's House is of major architectural importance as a combined dwelling and warehouse, of which many more examples survive in harbour towns across the North Sea. As in Scottish castles of that time, none of its features is entirely decorative, its character depending on the arrangement of turnpike stair, tall chimneys and crow-stepped gables. Inside, it has massive fireplaces which indicate the original layout of the rooms, and ogee-arched sinks on the stair with the waste outlet at the bottom. It was already half derelict in the late 19th century and would not have survived but for its purchase in 1938 by the 4th Marquis of Bute, who secured the fabric and restored its original appearance, including the half-shuttered windows. His son Lord David Stuart gave Lamb's House to the National Trust in 1958. It is now leased to the Edinburgh and Leith Old People's Welfare Council, who raised the money to restore and convert it to an Old People's Day Centre. The Trust could not have accepted Lord David's gift if this use for Lamb's House had not been found.
Lamb's House today
(Still in South Leith Parish)
In September of this year Lamb's House will celebrate its 20th birthday as the First Old People's Day Centre of its kind in the world.'
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Leith Miscellany Vol VIII
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