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Rooftops from Moubray House
MacLean, Kevin, 2008, Digital image
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Rooftops from Moubray House
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Rooftops from Moubray House
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MacLean, Kevin
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2008
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Moubray House at 51-53 High Street is one of the oldest residential buildings in Edinburgh and originally formed part of a small cluster of medieval buildings in the vicinity. This street frontage retains the line of the Medieval High Street with the House being the last property east before the defensive narrowing of the Gate. In 1369 3 houses along the Netherbow were recorded as all belonging to the Turing family whose name is now remembered as Trunk’s Close. The property known today as Moubray house was first built by Robert Moubray in 1477 with some of the masonry construction still visible at the top of Trunk’s Close today. However, the building in its current form dates from 1529 when it was substantially reconstructed and extended northwards towards the Waverley Valley. It lies on the north side of the High Street between Trunk’s (or Turing) Close and the John Knox House near the site of Edinburgh’s Netherbow Port. This was the Main Gate into the City before its demolition in 1764. On the pavement in front of the property the Netherbow Well has survived, this being one of the wells that formerly supplied water for the Old Town.
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