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| '''Postcode''' || KY15 7BU
| '''Postcode''' || KY15 7BU
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| '''Other names''' || Commercial Hotel; Luigino's
| rowspan="2" |'''Other names''' || Commercial Hotel
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|Luigino's
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| '''Date''' || 1771
| '''Date''' || 1771
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| '''See map''' || [[Map D]] (21)
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| '''OS grid ref''' || NO252073
| '''OS grid ref''' || NO252073
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| '''Latitude & longitude''' || 56°15'11"N 3°12'27"W
| '''Latitude & longitude''' || 56°15'11"N 3°12'27"W
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| '''what3words''' || [https://what3words.com///saved.motivations.referral saved.motivations.referral]
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! colspan=2 | HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31278 HES record for  LB31278]</ref>
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| '''Category''' || B
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| '''Reference / Date''' ||  LB31278 / 01/12/1971
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| '''Address/Site Name''' || Covenanter Hotel (Formerly Commercial Hotel), High Street
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| colspan=2 | '''Description:'''
Dated 17RBEB71 2-storey 3-window snecked rubble with painted margins, raised quoins, Roman doric columned doorpiece with swagged frieze; scroll-skews, slated. Eastern extension small 2-storey baronial with crowstepped gable and turret c 1870
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| colspan=2| '''Statement of special interest:'''
Cobbled area in front. Category A section of larger group (cont).
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! colspan=2 | 1963 listing details<ref>[[List of buildings, 1963]].</ref>
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| '''Number:''' || 12
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| '''Address/Site Name''' || Commercial Hotel, High Street
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| colspan=2 | '''Description:'''
2-storey: snecked rubble and slate: Roman doric doorpiece and scroll skews: window lintel 17.EB.EB.71: Baronial annex
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|}
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The '''Covenanter Hotel''' (previously the '''Commercial Hotel''') is an hotel in [[Falkland High Street]].
The '''Covenanter Hotel''' (previously the '''Commercial Hotel''') is an hotel in [[Falkland High Street]].


Google Streetview shows it in October 2009 AS "Luigino's", an Italian restaurant, but it had reverted to being the Covenanters by 2016.
Google Streetview shows it in October 2009 As "Luigino's", an Italian restaurant,<ref>https://www.google.com/maps/@56.2531514,-3.2077268,3a,75y,139.06h,84.21t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s9j_Te4ygeagm1YqDpWvHTA!2e0!5s20090401T000000!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu</ref> but it had reverted to being the Covenanters by 2016.


It takes its current name from the Covenanters, a presbyterian religious movement in the 17th century.
It takes its current name from the Covenanters, a presbyterian religious movement in the 17th century.


The Covenanter Hotel featured in the ''Outlander'' television series as "Mrs Baird’s guesthouse", Inverness.<ref>[https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/outlander-filming-locations NTS: Outlander filming locations].</ref>
The Covenanter Hotel featured in the ''Outlander'' television series as "Mrs Baird’s guesthouse", Inverness.<ref>[https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/outlander-filming-locations NTS: Outlander filming locations].</ref>
{| class=wikitable
! colspan=3 |HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31278 HES record for LB31278]</ref>
|-
| '''Reference:'''  LB31278
| '''Date:''' 01/12/1971
| '''Category:'''  B
|-
| colspan=3 | '''Address/Site Name'''
Covenanter Hotel (Formerly Commercial Hotel), High Street
|-
| colspan=3 | '''Description'''
Dated 17RBEB71 2-storey 3-window snecked rubble with painted margins, raised quoins, Roman doric columned doorpiece with swagged frieze; scroll-skews, slated. Eastern extension small 2-storey baronial with crowstepped gable and turret c 1870
|-
| colspan=3 |'''Statement of special interest'''
Cobbled area in front. Category A section of larger group (cont).
|}
==Extensions==
==Extensions==
The hotel now incorporates, as its eastern extension, the [[Covenanter Bar]], previously a separate establsihment.
The hotel now incorporates, as its eastern extension, the [[Covenanter Bar]], previously a separate establsihment.
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Covenanter Hotel</span> is dated 1771 on a gable window; on the front, Roman Doric doorpiece with a swagged frieze.<ref>[[Gifford, Fife|Gifford, ''Fife'']], page 220."</ref>
<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Covenanter Hotel</span> is dated 1771 on a gable window; on the front, Roman Doric doorpiece with a swagged frieze.<ref>[[Gifford, Fife|Gifford, ''Fife'']], page 220."</ref>
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"To be sold by private bargain that property in Falkland belonging to Robert Jackson, and situated near the Cross, consisting of the Commercial Inn, with a well frequented shop, and good cellar, eight stall stables, gig house, barn, hay and saw lofts, also three dwelling houses, and a stable and byre adjoining the former. Offers to be given to Mr. Charles Gulland, Town Clerk, Falkland or Robert Jackson, the proprietor, by the 15th September [1838]."<ref>''[[Queen Victoria]]'', page 4.</ref>
"To be sold by private bargain that property in Falkland belonging to Robert Jackson, and situated near the Cross, consisting of the Commercial Inn, with a well frequented shop, and good cellar, eight stall stables, gig house, barn, hay and saw lofts, also three dwelling houses, and a stable and byre adjoining the former. Offers to be given to Mr. [[Charles Gulland]], Town Clerk, Falkland or Robert Jackson, the proprietor, by the 15th September [1838]."<ref>''[[Queen Victoria]]'', page 4.</ref>
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"13 June 1903: Advertisement<br>
"13 June 1903: Advertisement<br>

Latest revision as of 19:29, 10 February 2024

Building summary
Name Covenanter Hotel
Address High Street (or The Square), Falkland
Postcode KY15 7BU
Other names Commercial Hotel
Luigino's
Date 1771
See map Map D (21)
OS grid ref NO252073
Latitude & longitude 56°15'11"N 3°12'27"W
what3words saved.motivations.referral
HES listing details[1]
Category B
Reference / Date LB31278 / 01/12/1971
Address/Site Name Covenanter Hotel (Formerly Commercial Hotel), High Street
Description:

Dated 17RBEB71 2-storey 3-window snecked rubble with painted margins, raised quoins, Roman doric columned doorpiece with swagged frieze; scroll-skews, slated. Eastern extension small 2-storey baronial with crowstepped gable and turret c 1870

Statement of special interest:

Cobbled area in front. Category A section of larger group (cont).

1963 listing details[2]
Number: 12
Address/Site Name Commercial Hotel, High Street
Description:

2-storey: snecked rubble and slate: Roman doric doorpiece and scroll skews: window lintel 17.EB.EB.71: Baronial annex

The Covenanter Hotel (previously the Commercial Hotel) is an hotel in Falkland High Street.

Google Streetview shows it in October 2009 As "Luigino's", an Italian restaurant,[3] but it had reverted to being the Covenanters by 2016.

It takes its current name from the Covenanters, a presbyterian religious movement in the 17th century.

The Covenanter Hotel featured in the Outlander television series as "Mrs Baird’s guesthouse", Inverness.[4]

Extensions

The hotel now incorporates, as its eastern extension, the Covenanter Bar, previously a separate establsihment.

Former residents

John Angus (early 20th century)

Further references

"On the S side [of the square} squeezed by the Town House, the diminutive late C19 Baronial Covenanter Bar. ... Covenanter Hotel is dated 1771 on a gable window; on the front, Roman Doric doorpiece with a swagged frieze.[5]

"To be sold by private bargain that property in Falkland belonging to Robert Jackson, and situated near the Cross, consisting of the Commercial Inn, with a well frequented shop, and good cellar, eight stall stables, gig house, barn, hay and saw lofts, also three dwelling houses, and a stable and byre adjoining the former. Offers to be given to Mr. Charles Gulland, Town Clerk, Falkland or Robert Jackson, the proprietor, by the 15th September [1838]."[6]

"13 June 1903: Advertisement
Commercial Hotel. Falkland. John Angus, Proprietor.
FIRST CLASS ACCOMMODATION FOR VISITORS. PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS CATERED FOR.
The above Hotel is provided with every convenience, including a Large Hall adjoining Hotel, specially Erected for Excursion Parties; also, Four Bedrooms, Parlour, and Kitchen, with W.C."[7]

Notes

  1. ↑ HES record for LB31278
  2. ↑ List of buildings, 1963.
  3. ↑ https://www.google.com/maps/@56.2531514,-3.2077268,3a,75y,139.06h,84.21t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s9j_Te4ygeagm1YqDpWvHTA!2e0!5s20090401T000000!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu
  4. ↑ NTS: Outlander filming locations.
  5. ↑ Gifford, Fife, page 220."
  6. ↑ Queen Victoria, page 4.
  7. ↑ Playfair and Burgess, page 76.

Further images

  • Date Stone
    Date Stone
  • The Covenanter Bar
    The Covenanter Bar
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