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! colspan=2 | HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/ | ! colspan=2 | HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31264 HES record for LB31264]</ref> | ||
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| '''Category''' || | | '''Category''' || B | ||
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| '''Reference / Date''' || | | '''Reference / Date''' || LB31264 / 01/12/1971 | ||
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| '''Address/Site Name''' || | | '''Address/Site Name''' || House (National Trust, Empty in 1971), High Street West | ||
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| colspan=2 | '''Description:''' | | colspan=2 | '''Description:''' | ||
Dated IEMG 1751 at lintel 2-storey rubble-built with margins, forestairs; Roman tiled in 1971. Built on natural rock foundation. | |||
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| colspan=2| '''Statement of special interest:''' | | colspan=2| '''Statement of special interest:''' | ||
Restoration work about to be put in hand. | |||
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! colspan=2 | Little Houses Scheme details<ref name=LHIS>[[Watters and Glendenning]], page 180).</ref> | |||
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| '''Restorer:''' || Restoring Purchaser (1971 onwards) | |||
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| '''Architect:''' || NTS (in-house staff) | |||
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| colspan=2 | '''Name and address''' | |||
Thatched Cottage (also Peggie's House) | |||
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Category B; 18thC. 2-storey; 3-bay with centre door; harled with stone margins; pantiled roof; forestair | |||
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! colspan=2 | 1963 listing details<ref>[[List of buildings, 1963]].</ref> | ! colspan=2 | 1963 listing details<ref>[[List of buildings, 1963]].</ref> | ||
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| '''Number:''' || | | '''Number:''' || 53 | ||
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| '''Address/Site Name''' || | | '''Address/Site Name''' || House, High Street, west of 52 | ||
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| colspan=2 | '''Description:''' | | colspan=2 | '''Description:''' | ||
2-storey: rubble and tile: built on natural rock foundation: forestairs;· lintel IE.MG.1751 | |||
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==Listings== | ==Listings== | ||
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! colspan= | ! colspan=2| HES listing details<ref>[http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31264 HES record for LB31264]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 07:43, 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 | |
| what3words | ||
| HES listing details[1] | ||
| Category | B | |
| Reference / Date | LB31264 / 01/12/1971 | |
| 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[2] | ||
| Restorer: | Restoring Purchaser (1971 onwards) | |
| Architect: | NTS (in-house staff) | |
| Name and address
Thatched Cottage (also Peggie's House) | ||
| Description
Category B; 18thC. 2-storey; 3-bay with centre door; harled with stone margins; pantiled roof; forestair | ||
| 1963 listing details[3] | ||
| 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 | ||
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[4] | ||
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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[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 LB31264
- ↑ Watters and Glendenning, page 180).
- ↑ List of buildings, 1963.
- ↑ HES record for LB31264
- ↑ 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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