Covenanter Hotel

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 (previously the Commercial Hotel) is an hotel in Falkland.

It takes its current 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).

Extensions

The hotel now incorporates, as its eastern extension, 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.

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.

Gallery

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  Front view
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  Date Stone
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  The Covenanter Bar