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The Covenanter Hotel featured in the ''Outlander'' television series as "Mrs Baird’s guesthouse", Inverness.<ref>[https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/outlander-filming-locations NTS: Outlander filming locations].</ref> | The Covenanter Hotel featured in the ''Outlander'' television series as "Mrs Baird’s guesthouse", Inverness.<ref>[https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/outlander-filming-locations NTS: Outlander filming locations].</ref> | ||
==Listings== | |||
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! colspan=3 |HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31278 HES record for LB31278]</ref> | ! colspan=3 |HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31278 HES record for LB31278]</ref> | ||
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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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! 1963 listing details<ref>[[List of buildings, 1963]].</ref> | |||
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| '''Number:''' 12 | |||
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| '''Address/Site Name''' | |||
Commercial Hotel, High Street | |||
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| '''Description''' | |||
2-storey: snecked rubble and slate: Roman doric doorpiece and scroll skews: window lintel 17.EB.EB.71: Baronial annex | |||
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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. | ||
Revision as of 09:10, 21 January 2024
| Building summary | |
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| Name | Covenanter Hotel |
| Address | High Street (or The Square), Falkland |
| Postcode | KY15 7BU |
| Other names | Commercial Hotel |
| Luigino's | |
| Date | 1771 |
| See map | Map D (21) |
| OS grid ref | NO252073 |
| Latitude & longitude | 56°15'11"N 3°12'27"W |
The Covenanter Hotel (previously the Commercial Hotel) is an hotel in Falkland High Street.
Google Streetview shows it in October 2009 AS "Luigino's", an Italian restaurant,[1] but it had reverted to being the Covenanters by 2016.
It takes its current name from the Covenanters, a presbyterian religious movement in the 17th century.
The Covenanter Hotel featured in the Outlander television series as "Mrs Baird’s guesthouse", Inverness.[2]
Listings
| HES listing details[3] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reference: LB31278 | Date: 01/12/1971 | Category: B |
| 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). | ||
| 1963 listing details[4] |
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| Number: 12 |
| Address/Site Name
Commercial Hotel, High Street |
| Description
2-storey: snecked rubble and slate: Roman doric doorpiece and scroll skews: window lintel 17.EB.EB.71: Baronial annex |
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.[5]
"To be sold by private bargain that property in Falkland belonging to Robert Jackson, and situated near the Cross, consisting of the Commercial Inn, with a well frequented shop, and good cellar, eight stall stables, gig house, barn, hay and saw lofts, also three dwelling houses, and a stable and byre adjoining the former. Offers to be given to Mr. Charles Gulland, Town Clerk, Falkland or Robert Jackson, the proprietor, by the 15th September [1838]."[6]
"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."[7]
Notes
- ↑ https://www.google.com/maps/@56.2531514,-3.2077268,3a,75y,139.06h,84.21t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s9j_Te4ygeagm1YqDpWvHTA!2e0!5s20090401T000000!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu
- ↑ NTS: Outlander filming locations.
- ↑ HES record for LB31278
- ↑ List of buildings, 1963.
- ↑ Gifford, Fife, page 220."
- ↑ Queen Victoria, page 4.
- ↑ Playfair and Burgess, page 76.
Further images
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Date Stone -
The Covenanter Bar
