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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,〔Bath, Michael, ''Renaissance Painting in Scotland'', NMS (2003), p.245〕 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.〔''RCAHMS Inventory of Monuments in Edinburgh'', Edinburgh HMSO (1951), p.96〕 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. ==Description== Moubray House lies on the north side of the High Street, between Trunk's or Turing's Close and the John Knox House, near the site of Edinburgh's Netherbow Port, the main gate into Edinburgh before its demolition in 1764. On the pavement in front of the property survives the Netherbow Well, one of the wells which formerly supplied water for the Old Town. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moubray House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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