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The Kirk and the Palace are prominent in this view of Falkland from the East Lomond Hill

Falkland Historic Buildings is an online database maintained by the Falkland Society, It was created as a way to preserve and display the outcome of The Falkland Listed Buildings Survey, launched in 2020 to capture information about the listed buildings, and other historic buildings and structures, in the Falkland Conservation Area, extending subsequently to the historic Parish of Falkland.

Will you help us expand this site to document our history and our heritage?

Background

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Falkland Town Hall

Falkland is very rich in historic and interesting buildings. Very many of them are Listed Buildings – buildings listed by Historic Environment Scotland for their special architectural or historic interest.

But it's not easy to find out about the buildings or even where they are. Many of the buildings are listed in the HES records by names that bear no relation to their current addresses.

Much of the historic core of Falkland village is within the Falkland Conservation Area.

Two areas are designated by HES as "Gardens and Designed Landscapes":

The Survey

Cross Wynd houses before demolition

During August 2020 volunteers from the Falkland Society delivered a leaflet to every listed property within the Falkland Conservation area, and other buildings of interest, asking residents to tell us about their house, giving details such as any previous names the building was known by, and who lived there before 1970 (a 50-year cut-off to protect the privacy of current residents).

The survey also aimed to cover special features of the building, for instance date stone, marriage stone, original doors or windows, bread ovens, etc., and any other buildings or structures in the curtilage.

From World Photography Day, 19 August 2020, volunteers are taking photographs (as seen from the street) of buildings throughout the town.

See also the "About page".

Exploring this site

Dundrennan, Horsemarket

There are several ways to find information on this site. Note that anywhere you see a word or phrase in blue, you can click on it and be taken to the item in question. If you see words in red, they are links to an article that hasn't been written yet.

  • Explore our records street by street
  • see our lists of Listed Buildings and Scheduled Monuments.
  • browse by category: to get an overview of the range of material that we cover.
  • take pot luck: use the "Random page" link at the left.
  • search for a particular item, using the search box at the top right of the page.

For further details, see Help:Using this site.

External links

Falkland coat of arms on the Fountain