Bruce Inn

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Building details
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Name Bruce Inn
Address 23 High Street, Falkland
Postcode KY15 7BZ
Other names Bruce Arms;
Falkland Arms Hotel;
Hunting Lodge Hotel.
Date 1607
OS grid ref NO253074
Latitude & longitude 56°15'11"N 3°12'24"W
Listing Category B
Listing ref LB31275
Listing name Bruce Arms Inn, High Street (Including Garden Walls)

The Bruce Inn is a public house in Falkland.

Listing description

Dated 1607, at inscribed lunette panel, remodelled early 19th century. 3-storey 4-window squared rubble, original moulded openings at first floor, others 19th century with margins, 2 artisan pilastered doorpieces. Back wing with inset pediments dated NMAO 1611, evidently from Moncrief House.

Cobbled Area in Front. Category A section of larger B group.

Previous uses

Special features

Extensions

Former residents

Early 20th century: Thomas Hardie; William Alexander Mason; Mrs Swanson.

Further references

In the crowstepped and pantiled Falkand Arms Hotel's front wall, an inset heraldic stone carved with the date 1607, likely enough for the first floor's roll-moulded windows. ... The second floor is probably an early C19 addition,contemporary with the pilastered doorpieces.[1]

Notes

  1. Gifford, Fife, page 219