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Revision as of 07:34, 25 January 2024
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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 |
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| HES listing details[1] | |
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| 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. ir. | ||
| 1963 listing details[4] |
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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.[5]
Special features
Falkland stones.[5]
Former residents
Walter Peggie[6]
Further references
"Walter Peggie owned Steps House and the house next door (now Bowriefaulds) he used them as storage workshop and lime works."[6]
"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)."[7]
Notes
- ↑ HES record for ####
- ↑ List of buildings, 1963.
- ↑ HES record for LB31264
- ↑ List of buildings, 1963.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Information from occupier.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 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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