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Revision as of 18:08, 26 January 2024

Building summary
Name Fountain House
Address High Street, Falkland
Postcode KY15 7BU
Date 1735
OS grid ref NO 25225 07395
Latitude & longitude 56°15′11″N 3°12′30″W
HES listing details[1]
Category: C
Reference / date LB31260 / 01/12/1971
Address/Site Name Fountain House, High Street
Description

Dated 1735 at lintel, 2-storey 3-window harled with margins, slated; corbelled corner and grotesque head skewputt; slated.

Statement of special interest

Cobbled area in front.

1963 listing details[2]
Number: 17
Address/Site Name Fountain House, High Street
Description

2-storey: ashlar and slate: corbelled corner and carved skew-putt: lintel 1735

Fountain House is a house in Falkland High Street, between the Old Town House and the Parish Church, now used as holiday accommodation.

It was restored under the Little Houses Improvement Scheme.

Previous uses

Private house.

Further references

"In the NW corner of this 'square', the drydashed Fountain House look C18, but its corbelled SW corner suggests that it may be the remodelling of an earlier house; in the W gable, an inset stone dated 1690 [3]


"Fountain House, The Cross, 1735, was later remodelled. Note grotesque on skewputt.[4]

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