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==Former residents==
==Former residents==
John Angus (early 2oth century)


==Further references==
==Further references==

Revision as of 17:01, 24 November 2020

Building details
Name Covenanter Hotel
Address High Street (or The Square), Falkland
Postcode KY15 7BU
Other names Commercial Hotel
Date 1771
OS grid ref NO252073
Latitude & longitude 56°15'11"N 3°12'27"W
Listing Category B
Listing ref LB31278
Listing name Covenanter Hotel (Formerly Commercial Hotel), High Street

The Covenanter Hotel is an hotel in Falkland.

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

Listing 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.

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

Special features

Extensions

The hotel now incorporates, as its easter extesnion, the Covenanter Bar, previously a separate establsihment.

Former residents

John Angus (early 2oth 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.[1]

13 June 19013: 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.[2]

Notes

  1. Gifford, Fife, page 220.
  2. Playfair and Burgess, page 76.

Gallery

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