Edinburgh
In Person
Please do not describe your planned events /activities this will be covered later The Cockburn Association is one of the oldest conservation and amenity advocacy organisations in the world. Its offices are hidden down the narrow Trunk’s Close, in the cellars of Moubray House, one of the oldest buildings on the Royal Mile.
Only the Association’s offices are open. These were transformed from unused storage space into the Association’s offices in 1990. The Association is approaching its 150th year anniversary in 2025, and there will be exhibitions and information about its work protecting Edinburgh’s heritage and civic amenity.
Access to the hidden garden and Patrick Geddes memorial sculpture behind Moubray House will be also available. Moubray House was originally built around 1477 for Robert Moubray, but was reconstructed and extended in 1529. The Association purchased Moubray House in 1910 to prevent its demolition. Some famous occupants Scotland’s eminent portrait painter George Jamesone (1587–1644), Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe) who edited the Edinburgh Courant (1710) when he was a spy for the English government, and the once premises of publisher Archibald Constable (1774-1827), who created the Encyclopaedia Brittanica.
Facilities
Gallery
Key Information
No Booking Required.
The Trust will be opening its historic offices and putting on an exhibition on the history of the Association and its involvement in the protection of Edinburgh’s cultural heritage and civic amenity.
Where to find us
Address
- The Cockburn Association
- Trunk’s Close, 55 High Street
- Edinburgh
- EH1 1SR