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| '''Date''' || 1610
| '''Date''' || 1610
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| '''OS grid ref''' || NO 25340 7414
|  '''See map''' || [[Map T]] (2)
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| '''OS grid ref''' || NO 25340 07414
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| '''Latitude & longitude''' || 56°15′12″N 3°12′24″W
| '''Latitude & longitude''' || 56°15′12″N 3°12′24″W
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| '''Listing''' || Category A
| '''what3words''' || [https://what3words.com///fuse.scarred.spot ///fuse.scarred.spot]
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| '''Listing ref''' || LB31274
! colspan=2| HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31274 HES record for LB31274].</ref>
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__NOTOC__
| '''Category''' || A
'''Moncrief House''' (or '''Moncreif House''' or '''Moncrieff House'''), is a house in Falkland High Street.
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!HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31274 HES].</ref>
| '''Reference / Date''' || LB31274 / 01/12/1971
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| '''Address/Site Name'''
| '''Address/Site Name''' || Moncrief House  
Moncrief House  
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| '''Description'''
| colspan=2 |  '''Description'''
Dated NM AO 1610 at lintel. 2-storey and dormerless attic 4-window ashlar, thatched; moulded openings, inscribed panel, small blind attic window under eaves.
Dated NM AO 1610 at lintel. 2-storey and dormerless attic 4-window ashlar, thatched; moulded openings, inscribed panel, small blind attic window under eaves.
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|'''Statement of special interest'''
| colspan=2 | '''Statement of special interest'''
Inscription: AL PRAISE TO GOD AND/THANKIS TO THE MOST/EXCELLENT MONARCHE/GREAT BRITAINE OF WH/OSE PRINCELIE LIBERA/LITIE THIS IS MY POR/TIOVNE: DEO LAVS/ ESTO FIDYS/ADEST MERCES/NICOLL MONCRIEF.
Inscription: AL PRAISE TO GOD AND/THANKIS TO THE MOST/EXCELLENT MONARCHE/GREAT BRITAINE OF WH/OSE PRINCELIE LIBERA/LITIE THIS IS MY POR/TIOVNE: DEO LAVS/ ESTO FIDYS/ADEST MERCES/NICOLL MONCRIEF.
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! colspan=2 |1963 listing details<ref>[[List of buildings, 1963]].</ref>
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| '''Number:''' || 8
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| '''Address/Site Name''' || Moncreife House, High Street
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| colspan=2 |'''Description'''
3-storey: squared rubble and thatch: crowstepped: door lintel NM.A0.1610 and inscribed panel: (Inventory 239)
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'''Moncrief House''' (or '''Moncreif House''' or '''Moncrieff House'''), is a house on the ssouth side of [[Falkland High Street]], between The [[Bruce Inn]] and [[Ladieburn Cottage]].


==Former residents==
==Former residents==
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==Further images==
==Gallery==
[Click on a picture below to see the image full-size]
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File:Moncrief House, Falkland (geograph 5336150).jpg|The house (from Wikimedia Commons)
File:Moncrief inscription.JPG|The panel
File:Moncrief inscription.JPG|The panel
File:Bruce x.jpg|Moncrief House (and the [[Bruce Inn]]) showing small front garden
File:Falkland 69 2018.JPG|The lintel
File:Moncrief House 1 2019.JPG|View from [[Falkland Palace]] battlements
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</gallery>



Latest revision as of 09:57, 8 March 2024

Building summary
Name Moncrief House
Address High Street, Falkland
Postcode KY15 7BZ
Date 1610
See map Map T (2)
OS grid ref NO 25340 07414
Latitude & longitude 56°15′12″N 3°12′24″W
what3words ///fuse.scarred.spot
HES listing details[1]
Category A
Reference / Date LB31274 / 01/12/1971
Address/Site Name Moncrief House
Description

Dated NM AO 1610 at lintel. 2-storey and dormerless attic 4-window ashlar, thatched; moulded openings, inscribed panel, small blind attic window under eaves.

Statement of special interest

Inscription: AL PRAISE TO GOD AND/THANKIS TO THE MOST/EXCELLENT MONARCHE/GREAT BRITAINE OF WH/OSE PRINCELIE LIBERA/LITIE THIS IS MY POR/TIOVNE: DEO LAVS/ ESTO FIDYS/ADEST MERCES/NICOLL MONCRIEF.

1963 listing details[2]
Number: 8
Address/Site Name Moncreife House, High Street
Description

3-storey: squared rubble and thatch: crowstepped: door lintel NM.A0.1610 and inscribed panel: (Inventory 239)

Moncrief House (or Moncreif House or Moncrieff House), is a house on the ssouth side of Falkland High Street, between The Bruce Inn and Ladieburn Cottage.

Former residents

Nicol Moncrief was King's Averiman.[3]

Further references

"Moncrief House, dated 1610 on the door lintel, built for James VI's servant Nicol Moncrief. ..."[4]

"Moncreif House, High Street, 1610, is the only remaining thatched house in Falkland. ..."[5]

Notes

  1. HES record for LB31274.
  2. List of buildings, 1963.
  3. (this word seems not to be found in standard Scottish dictionaries).
  4. Gifford, Fife, page 219.
  5. Pride, Kingdom of Fife, page 87.

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