Ladywell

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Building summary
File:Ladywell 1.JPG
Name Ladywell
Address Falkland
Postcode KY15 7DE
Other names Glebelands;

Parish Church Manse

Date 1807
Architect Thomas Barclay
OS grid ref NO 25884 6882
Latitude & longitude 56°14′55″N 3°11′52″W
Listing Category B
Listing ref LB31362

Ladywell is a private house (now self-catering accommodation) on the slopes of the East Lomond Hill, overlooking Falkland. It was formerly the Manse (the residence of the Parish Church Minister).

HES listing details[1]
Address/Site Name

Parish Church Manse including garden wall and offices, Chapel Yard

Description

Thomas Barclay 1807. 2-storey 5-window ashlar fronted, remainder rubble. Lean-to outshot at west gable, back wing. Slated

Statement of special interest

Elevated site

Bibiography

NSA v IX p938. Hentors [sic] Records. In 1803 they advertised for plans but received no replies. The minister in exaspiration produced a plan based on the manse of Kettle, which was executed by Andrew White and Robert Hutchison. Thomas Barclay was subsequently paid 4 gn for plans and specifications.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

"My Lord,
We had a meeting of the Works Committee yesterday evening at the Glebe, with reference to the water supply to the Manse and Chapelyard. The present old horseshoe pipes conducting the water from a spring in the Glebe to a tank at the bottom of it have become defective and choked up.
Your obedient servant, George Gavin."[2]

"My Lord,
The meeting called to consider the minister’s proposal to light the Manse by electricity was held yesterday. After discussing the details in the minister’s scheme it was unanimously resolved that, while the heritors would place no obstacle in the way of his introducing electric light into the Manse, they could not agree to his request to take the plant over from him on his leaving the parish. ...
Your obedient servant, George Gavin."[3]

Notes

  1. HES record for LB31362. "Hentors" is presumably a typo for "Heritors"
  2. Falkland Estate papers, 16 April 1910, quoted in Playfair and Burgess, page 295.
  3. Falkland Estate papers, 10 May 1910, quoted in Playfair and Burgess, page 296.

Gallery

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