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Revision as of 10:18, 1 March 2021

Building summary
Name Steps House
Address West Port (formerly High Street West)
Postcode KY15 7BW
Other names Thatched Cottage;
Peggie's House;
52 High Street West
Date 1751
OS Grid Reference NO251073
Latitude & longitude 56°15'10"N 3°12'34"W
Listing Category B
Listing reference LB31264
Listing date 01/12/1971

Steps House is a private house in West Port, Falkland. It was restored in 1970 [check date] by the National Trust for Scotland under the Little Houses Improvement Scheme.[1] and was described at that time as "Thatched Cottage (also Peggie's House)."

HES listing details[2]
Address/Site Name

House (National Trust, Empty in 1971), High Street West

Description

Dated IEMG 1751 at lintel 2-storey rubble-built with margins, forestairs; Roman tiled in 1971. Built on natural rock foundation.

Statement of special interest

Restoration work about to be put in hand.

Previous uses

Weaving ? Workshop 1970s.[3]

Special features

Falkland stones.[3]

Former residents

Walter Peggie[4]

Further references

"Walter Peggie owned Steps House and the house next door (now Bowriefaulds) he used them as storage workshop and lime works."[4]


Walter Peggie (Jean’s grandfather) [a slater and plasterer] set up his workshop underneath the house on West Port now called Steps House, (the washhouse was there too, next to the workshop).[5]

Notes

  1. Diane Watters and Miles Glendenning, Little Houses; The National Trust for Scotland's Improvement Scheme for Small Historic Homes (RCAHMS and NTS, 2006, page ##),
  2. HES record for LB31264
  3. 3.0 3.1 Information from occupier.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Information from former neighbour.
  5. My Family by Jean Small on Voices of Falkland.

Gallery

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