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| style="width:50%"| '''Name''' || Balreavie Farmhouse
| style="width:50%"| '''Name''' || Balreavie Farmhouse
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| '''Address''' ||  
| '''Address''' || Falkland
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| '''Postcode''' ||  
| '''Postcode''' || KY15 7DF
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| '''Other names''' ||  
| '''Date''' || 18th century
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| '''Date''' ||  
| '''OS grid ref''' || NO 26706 06494
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| '''Latitude & longitude''' || 56°14′43″N 3°11′03″W
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'''Balreavie Farmhouse''' is a house on the [[A912]] where it crosses the Balreavie Burn, south of [[Newton of Falkland]] and south-east of [[Kilgourieknowe]].
 
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!colspan=3 |HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB8813 HES record for LB8813]</ref>
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| '''Latitude & longitude''' ||  
| '''Reference:''' LB8813
| '''Date:''' 01/02/1972
| '''Category:''' B
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| '''Listing''' || Category #
|colspan=3 | '''Address/Site Name'''
Balreavie, House and Steading
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| '''Listing ref''' || LB8813
|colspan=3 | '''Description'''
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18th century, originally single-storey, raised to 2-storey 3-window later in century, rubble-built; later 2-storey 1-window addition coursed whin rubble with ashlar dressings, slated cable moulded club-skews; mid 19th century single-storey and loft steading wing, polygonal horsemill.
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'''Balreavie Farmhouse''' is a house on the A912 where it crosses the Balreavie Burn, south of [[Newton of Falkland]] and south-east of [[Kilgourieknowe]].


==Listing description==
==Former uses==
18th century, originally single-storey, raised to 2-storey 3-window later in century, rubble-built; later 2-storey 1-window addition coursed whin rubble with ashlar dressings, slated cable moulded club-skews; mid 19th century single-storey and loft steading wing, polygonal horsemill.<ref>http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB8813</ref>
An inn in 1828.<ref name=taylor />
==Previous uses==


==Special features==
<ref name="occ">Information from occupier</ref>
==Extensions==
<ref name="occ" />
==Former residents==
==Former residents==
*David Duncan  of Balreavie (his gravestone in Falkland graveyard .dated 1846)
*1855 John Duncan
*1885 John Fleming tenant
*1920 John Ness owner occupier.
*1940 David Anderson staying at Kilgowrieknowe
*1960 Hugh Butter<ref name="nbr">Information from former neighbour.</ref>


==Further references==
==Other references==
"The name derives from the Gaelic words ''baile'' ''riabhach'', meaning a " 'Striped or variegated estate' This is almost certainly the etymology of this farm-name on the main road from Falkland to Markinch (A912), but is it an indigenous place-name? Its unusually late appearance (for a Bal-name), and its status as an inn in 1828 suggest that it is not, but rather that it was a transferred name, perhaps from Balreavie, Longmorn by Elgin [Moray]."<ref name=taylor>[[Taylor, Place-Names|Taylor, ''Place-Names'']], page 144.</ref>


==Notes==
==Notes==
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Latest revision as of 17:22, 4 February 2022

Building summary
Name Balreavie Farmhouse
Address Falkland
Postcode KY15 7DF
Date 18th century
OS grid ref NO 26706 06494
Latitude & longitude 56°14′43″N 3°11′03″W

Balreavie Farmhouse is a house on the A912 where it crosses the Balreavie Burn, south of Newton of Falkland and south-east of Kilgourieknowe.

HES listing details[1]
Reference: LB8813 Date: 01/02/1972 Category: B
Address/Site Name

Balreavie, House and Steading

Description

18th century, originally single-storey, raised to 2-storey 3-window later in century, rubble-built; later 2-storey 1-window addition coursed whin rubble with ashlar dressings, slated cable moulded club-skews; mid 19th century single-storey and loft steading wing, polygonal horsemill.

Former uses

An inn in 1828.[2]

Former residents

  • David Duncan of Balreavie (his gravestone in Falkland graveyard .dated 1846)
  • 1855 John Duncan
  • 1885 John Fleming tenant
  • 1920 John Ness owner occupier.
  • 1940 David Anderson staying at Kilgowrieknowe
  • 1960 Hugh Butter[3]

Other references

"The name derives from the Gaelic words baile riabhach, meaning a " 'Striped or variegated estate' This is almost certainly the etymology of this farm-name on the main road from Falkland to Markinch (A912), but is it an indigenous place-name? Its unusually late appearance (for a Bal-name), and its status as an inn in 1828 suggest that it is not, but rather that it was a transferred name, perhaps from Balreavie, Longmorn by Elgin [Moray]."[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ HES record for LB8813
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Taylor, Place-Names, page 144.
  3. ↑ Information from former neighbour.
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