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==Previous uses==
==Previous uses==
School.
Private house.


==Special features==
==Special features==
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[[Category:Category A listed buildings]]
[[Category:Parish of Falkland]]
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Revision as of 09:58, 28 December 2020

Building details
Name House of Falkland
Address Falkland Estate
Postcode KY15 7AE
Other names Falkland House;
St Ninian's RC School
Date 1839
OS grid ref NO242074
Latitude & longitude 56°15'11"N 3°13'27"W
Listing Category A
Listing reference LB8763
Listing name House of Falkland Estate, House of Falkland, Including Terraces and Fountains

The Hiose if Falkland is a major country house to the west of theBurgh of Falkland, now used as a school.

Listing description

William Burn, 1839-44. 2-storey, 6- x 7- bay, L-plan, balustraded and crowstep-gabled Jacobean manor house with attached single-storey and attic servants' courtyard to NW (currently school, 2011). Sandstone ashlar with buckle quoins. Base course, band course, cornice. Bi- and tri-partite window openings with stone mullions and transoms. Some narrow slit windows. Moulded architraves; some windows with strapwork window heads and aprons. Square corner turrets with finialled ogee roofs. Tall chimneys with barley sugar decorative shafts. ...

There's much more in the full listing description[1]

Previous uses

School.

Private house.

Special features

Extensions

Former residents

Further references

Gifford has a substantial artice about the house, including a plan of the main floor.[2]

Notes

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