Balreavie

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Building details
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Name Balreavie Farmhouse
Address Falkland
Postcode KY15 7DF
Date 18th century
OS grid ref NO 26706 6494
Latitude & longitude 56°14′43″N 3°11′03″W
Listing Category B
Listing ref LB8813
Listing name Balreavie, House and Steading

Balreavie Farmhouse is a house on the A912 where it crosses the Balreavie Burn, south of Newton of Falkland and south-east of Kilgourieknowe.

Listing description

18th century, originally single-storey, raised to 2-storey 3-window later in century, rubble-built; later 2-storey 1-window addition coursed whin rubble with ashlar dressings, slated cable moulded club-skews; mid 19th century single-storey and loft steading wing, polygonal horsemill.[1]

Former residents

  • David Duncan of Balreavie (his gravestone in Falkland graveyard .dated 1846)
  • 1855 John Duncan
  • 1885 John Fleming tenant
  • 1920 John Ness owner occupier.
  • 1940 David Anderson staying at Kilgowrieknowe
  • 1960 Hugh Butter[2]

Other references

The name derives from the Gaelic words baile riabhach, meaning a " 'Striped or variegated estate' This is almost certainly the etymology of this farm-name on the main road from Falkland to Markinch (A912), but is it an indigenous place-name? Its unusually late appearance (for a Bal-name), and its status as an inn in 1828 suggest that it is not, but rather that it was a transferred name, perhaps from Balreavie, Longmorn by Elgin [Moray]."[3]

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