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! colspan=2 | HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/#### HES record for ####]</ref>
! colspan=2 | HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31264 HES record for LB31264]</ref>
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| '''Reference / Date''' || LB31264 / 01/12/1971
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| '''Address/Site Name''' || House (National Trust, Empty in 1971), High Street West
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| colspan=2 | '''Description:'''
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Dated IEMG 1751 at lintel 2-storey rubble-built with margins, forestairs; Roman tiled in 1971. Built on natural rock foundation.
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| colspan=2| '''Statement of special interest:'''
| colspan=2| '''Statement of special interest:'''
 
Restoration work about to be put in hand.
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! colspan=2 | Little Houses Scheme details<ref name=LHIS>[[Watters and Glendenning]], page 180).</ref>
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| '''Restorer:''' || Restoring Purchaser (1971 onwards)
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| '''Architect:''' || NTS (in-house staff)
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| colspan=2 | '''Name and address'''
Thatched Cottage (also Peggie's House)
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Category B; 18thC. 2-storey; 3-bay with centre door; harled with stone margins; pantiled roof; forestair
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! colspan=2 | 1963 listing details<ref>[[List of buildings, 1963]].</ref>
! colspan=2 | 1963 listing details<ref>[[List of buildings, 1963]].</ref>
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| '''Number:''' ||  
| '''Number:''' || 53
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| '''Address/Site Name''' || House, High Street, west of 52
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| colspan=2 | '''Description:'''
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2-storey: rubble and tile: built on natural rock foundation: forestairs;· lintel IE.MG.1751
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It was restored in 1971 onwards by the National Trust for Scotland under the [[Little Houses Improvement Scheme]].
It was restored in 1971 onwards by the National Trust for Scotland under the [[Little Houses Improvement Scheme]].


==Listings==
{| class=wikitable
! colspan=3 | HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31264 HES record for LB31264]</ref>
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| '''Reference:''' LB31264
| '''Date:''' 01/12/1971
| '''Category:''' B
|-
| colspan=3 | '''Address/Site Name'''
House (National Trust, Empty in 1971), High Street West
|-
| colspan=3 | '''Description'''
Dated IEMG 1751 at lintel 2-storey rubble-built with margins, forestairs; Roman tiled in 1971. Built on natural rock foundation.
|-
| colspan=3 | '''Statement of special interest'''
Restoration work about to be put in hand.
ir.
|}
{| class=wikitable
! 1963 listing details<ref>[[List of buildings, 1963]].</ref>
|-
| '''Number:''' 53
|-
| '''Address/Site Name'''
House, High Street, west of 52
|-
| '''Description'''
2-storey: rubble and tile: built on natural rock foundation: forestairs;· lintel IE.MG.1751
|}
==Previous uses==
==Previous uses==
Weaving ? Workshop 1970s.<ref name="occ">Information from occupier.</ref>
Weaving ? Workshop 1970s.<ref name="occ">Information from occupier.</ref>

Latest revision as of 07:43, 25 January 2024

Building summary
Name Steps House
Address West Port (formerly High Street West)
Postcode KY15 7BW
Other names Thatched Cottage
Peggie's House
52 High Street West
Date 1751
OS Grid Reference NO 25144 07364
Latitude & longitude 56°15'10"N 3°12'34"W
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HES listing details[1]
Category B
Reference / Date LB31264 / 01/12/1971
Address/Site Name House (National Trust, Empty in 1971), High Street West
Description:

Dated IEMG 1751 at lintel 2-storey rubble-built with margins, forestairs; Roman tiled in 1971. Built on natural rock foundation.

Statement of special interest:

Restoration work about to be put in hand.

Little Houses Scheme details[2]
Restorer: Restoring Purchaser (1971 onwards)
Architect: NTS (in-house staff)
Name and address

Thatched Cottage (also Peggie's House)

Description

Category B; 18thC. 2-storey; 3-bay with centre door; harled with stone margins; pantiled roof; forestair

1963 listing details[3]
Number: 53
Address/Site Name House, High Street, west of 52
Description:

2-storey: rubble and tile: built on natural rock foundation: forestairs;· lintel IE.MG.1751

Steps House is a private house in West Port, Falkland.

It was restored in 1971 onwards by the National Trust for Scotland under the Little Houses Improvement Scheme.

Previous uses

Weaving ? Workshop 1970s.[4]

Special features

Falkland stones.[4]

Former residents

Walter Peggie[5]

Further references

"Walter Peggie owned Steps House and the house next door (now Bowriefaulds) he used them as storage workshop and lime works."[5]

"Walter Peggie (Jean’s grandfather) [a slater and plasterer] set up his workshop underneath the house on West Port now called Steps House, (the washhouse was there too, next to the workshop)."[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ HES record for LB31264
  2. ↑ Watters and Glendenning, page 180).
  3. ↑ List of buildings, 1963.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Information from occupier.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Information from former neighbour.
  6. ↑ My Family by Jean Small on Voices of Falkland.

Further images

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