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Revision as of 07:33, 25 January 2024
| Building summary | |
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| 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 | NO 25144 07364 |
| Latitude & longitude | 56°15'10"N 3°12'34"W |
| what3words | |
| HES listing details[1] | |
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| Reference / Date | / |
| Address/Site Name | |
| Description: | |
| Statement of special interest: | |
| 1963 listing details[2] | |
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Steps House is a private house in West Port, Falkland.
It was restored in 1971 onwards by the National Trust for Scotland under the Little Houses Improvement Scheme.
Listings
| HES listing details[3] | ||
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| Reference: LB31264 | Date: 01/12/1971 | Category: B |
| 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. | ||
| Little Houses Scheme details[4] | ||
| Restorer: Restoring Purchaser | Architect: NTS (in-house staff) | Date Restored: 1971 onwards |
| Name and address
Thatched Cottage (also Peggie's House) | ||
| Description
Category B; 18thC. | ||
| 1963 listing details[5] |
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| Number: 53 |
| Address/Site Name
House, High Street, west of 52 |
| Description
2-storey: rubble and tile: built on natural rock foundation: forestairs;· lintel IE.MG.1751 |
Previous uses
Weaving ? Workshop 1970s.[6]
Special features
Falkland stones.[6]
Former residents
Walter Peggie[7]
Further references
"Walter Peggie owned Steps House and the house next door (now Bowriefaulds) he used them as storage workshop and lime works."[7]
"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)."[8]
Notes
- ↑ HES record for ####
- ↑ List of buildings, 1963.
- ↑ HES record for LB31264
- ↑ Watters and Glendenning, page 180).
- ↑ List of buildings, 1963.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Information from occupier.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Information from former neighbour.
- ↑ My Family by Jean Small on Voices of Falkland.
Further images
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The lintel -
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