Electricity Sub-station: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 07:52, 27 January 2024

Building summary
The building in 2020
Name	Electricity Sub-station
Address	High Street, Falkland
Postcode	?
Other names	Reading Room
Date	18th century; 1960
See map	Map T (20)
See map	Map D (59)
OS grid ref	NO 25200 07355
Latitude & longitude	56°15′10″N 3°12′32″W
what3words	musician.thinnest.chilling
HES listing details^[1]
Category	B
Reference / Date	LB31284 / 01/12/1971
Address/Site Name	Electricity sub-station High Street
Description: 18th century, restored and converted to sub-station 1960. 2-storey 2-window whitewashed harl with margins, slated, gable forestair.
Statement of special interest: Narrow cobbled pavement in front.
1963 listing details^[2]
Number:	48
Address/Site Name	Electricity Sub-Station, High Street
Description: 18th Century: 2-storey with outside stairs: harl and slate: restored and converted to sub-station 1960

The Electricity Sub-station is a building in Falkland High Street, formerly the Reading Room. The company of Wheeler and Sproson worked on the conversion of the cottage to a sub-station; it was opened in 1960 by Mrs Crichton Stuart.

Previous uses

Reading Room

Former residents

Thomas Drysdale (c. 1850)

Further references

"In the narrower W part of High Street after Rottenrow, a small early C18 building, externally restored in 1960 (the inside became an electricity sub-station)."^[3]

"At a meeting of the Cricket Club, held on Thurrsday, it was decided to discontinue the hiring of the Reading Room, as the maintanance was a heavy drain on the funds of the club."^[4]

Notes

↑ HES record for LB31284
↑ List of buildings, 1963.
↑ Gifford, Fife, page 220.
↑ Falkland Estate Papers, 5 October 1901. Quoted in Playfair and Burgess. page 35.

Further images

Explanatory plaque

[1] HES record for LB31284

[2] List of buildings, 1963.

[3] Gifford, Fife, page 220.

[4] Falkland Estate Papers, 5 October 1901. Quoted in Playfair and Burgess. page 35.

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+|[[Map D]] (59)
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 | '''OS grid ref''' || NO 25200 07355
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 | '''Latitude & longitude''' || 56°15′10″N 3°12′32″W
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+| '''Reference / Date''' || LB31284 / 01/12/1971
+|-
+| '''Address/Site Name''' || Electricity sub-station High Street
+|-
+| colspan=2 | '''Description:'''
+th century, restored and converted to sub-station 1960. 2-storey 2-window whitewashed harl with margins, slated, gable forestair.
+|-
+| colspan=2| '''Statement of special interest:'''
+Narrow cobbled pavement in front.
+|-
+! colspan=2 | 1963 listing details<ref>[[List of buildings, 1963]].</ref>
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-| colspan=3 | '''Address/Site Name'''
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 |-
-| colspan=3 | '''Description'''
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-th century, restored and converted to sub-station 1960. 2-storey 2-window whitewashed harl with margins, slated, gable forestair.
 |-
-| colspan=3 | '''Statement of special interest'''
+| colspan=2 | '''Description:'''
-Narrow cobbled pavement in front.
+th Century: 2-storey with outside stairs: harl and slate: restored and converted to sub-station 1960
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+__NOTOC__
+'''The Electricity Sub-station''' is a building in [[Falkland High Street]], formerly the '''Reading Room'''. The company of [[Wheeler and Sproson]] worked on the conversion of the cottage to a sub-station; it was opened in 1960 by Mrs Crichton Stuart.
 ==Previous uses==