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==Extensions==
==Extensions==
The hotel now incorporates, as its eastern extension, the Covenanter Bar, previously a separate establsihment.
The hotel now incorporates, as its eastern extension, the [[Covenanter Bar]], previously a separate establsihment.


==Former residents==
==Former residents==

Revision as of 17:04, 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 20th 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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