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'''Fountain House''' is a house in Falkland High Street, now used as holiday accommodation.
'''Fountain House''' is a house in [[Falkland High Street]], next to the [[Parish Church]], now used as holiday accommodation.


It was restored under the [[Little Houses Improvement Scheme]].
It was restored under the [[Little Houses Improvement Scheme]].
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Revision as of 19:23, 5 January 2021

Building details
Name Fountain House
Address High Street, Falkland
Postcode 56°15′11″N 3°12′30″W
Date 1735
OS grid ref 56°15′11″N 3°12′30″W
Latitude & longitude 56°15′11″N 3°12′30″W
Listing Category B
Listing ref LB31260
Listing name Fountain House, High Street

Fountain House is a house in Falkland High Street, next to the Parish Church, now used as holiday accommodation.

It was restored under the Little Houses Improvement Scheme.

Listing description

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

Previous uses

Private house.

Former residents

Further references

"In the NW corner of this 'square', the drydashed Fountain House look C18, but its corbelled SW corner suggests that i may be the remodelling of an earlier house; in the W gable, an inset stone dated 1690 [1]

"Fountain House, The Cross, 1735, was later remodelled. Note grotesque on skewputt.[2]

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