Architecture Notes

Event ID 680234

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Depicted on the coloured 1st edition of the O.S. 1:1056 scale map (Edinburgh and its Environs, 1854, sheet 36).

Built about 1628. Large house whose forecourt is entered from the Canongate between two high gateposts with sharp pyramidal finials. Main part of the hosue has a gable to the street, and ar first floor level is a balcony supportd by bold corbels. At the side is a semi-octagonal turnpike tower. Interior contains several magnificent plaster ceilings.

REFERENCE - Scottish Record Office

Sale at the Linen Hall.

Advertisement of the sale is decorated with a drawing of Moray House, at that time occupied by The British Linen Bank. (The Linen Hall was in John Street.)

1774

GD150/3292/1/40

Free Church Normal School building now demolished.

REFERENCE: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND

Volume 3 of water colour sketches by Thomas Brown Advocate -1 engraving and sketch showing Moray House