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


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!HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31278 HES record for LB31278]</ref>
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| '''Address/Site Name'''
Covenanter Hotel (Formerly Commercial Hotel), High Street
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| '''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
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|'''Statement of special interest'''
Cobbled area in front. Category A section of larger group (cont).
Cobbled area in front. Category A section of larger group (cont).
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==Special features==
==Special features==

Revision as of 17:02, 11 January 2021

Building summary
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

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.

HES listing details[1]
Address/Site Name

Covenanter Hotel (Formerly Commercial Hotel), High Street

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

Statement of special interest

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

Special features

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.[2]

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.[3]

Notes

Gallery

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