Welcome to Falkland Historic Buildings – the online encyclopaedia of Falkland and its heritage.
Falkland is an former Royal Burgh in the the "Kingdom" of Fife, south-east Scotland. The historic core of Falkland includes the Falkland Conservation Area, and two areas have been designated byHistoric Environment Scotland (HES) as "Gardens and Designed Landscapes":
the Falkland Palace gardens, and
the House of Falkland designed landscape.
Falkland is very rich in historic and interesting buildings, many of them
Listed Buildings –
listed by HES for their special architectural or historic interest.
But it's not easy to find out about the listed buildings or even where they are. The listing was mainly done in the early 1970s, and many of the HES records refer to buildings by names that bear no relation to their current addresses; one of the aims of this site is to locate our listed buildings and relate them to the current names and addresses.
This site was created to preserve and display the outcome of The Falkland Listed Buildings Survey, launched in 2020 to capture information about the listed buildings, and Falkland's other historic buildings and structures. During August 2020 volunteers from the Falkland Society delivered a leaflet to every listed property
within the Falkland Conservation area, and other buildings of interest, asking residents to tell us about their house,
giving details such as any previous names the building was known by, and who lived there before 1970
(a 50-year cut-off to protect the privacy of current residents).
The survey also aimed to cover special features of the building, for instance date stone, marriage stone,
original doors or windows, bread ovens, etc., and any other buildings or structures in the curtilage.
From World Photography Day, 19 August 2020, volunteers are taking photographs (as seen from the street) of buildings throughout the town.
There are several ways to find information on this site. Note that anywhere you see a word or phrase in blue, you can click on it and be taken to the item in question. If you see words in red, they are links to an article that hasn't been written yet.
