Covenanter Hotel

Building details
Name	Covenanter Hotel
Address	High Street (or The Square), Falkland
Postcode	KY15 7BU
Other names	Commercial Hotel
Date	1771
OS grid ref	NO252073
Latitude & longitude	56°15'11"N 3°12'27"W
Listing	Category B
Listing ref LB31278
Listing name	Covenanter Hotel (Formerly Commercial Hotel), High Street

The Covenanter Hotel is an hotel in Falkland.

It takes its name from the Covenanters, a presbyterian religious movement in the 17th century

Listing description

Dated 17RBEB71 2-storey 3-window snecked rubble with painted margins, raised quoins, Roman doric columned doorpiece with swagged frieze; scroll-skews, slated. Eastern extension small 2-storey baronial with crowstepped gable and turret c 1870.

Cobbled area in front. Category A section of larger group (cont).

Extensions

The hotel now incorporates the Covenanter Bar, previously a separate establsihment.

Further references

On the S side [of the square} squeezed by the Town House, the diminutive late C19 Baronial Covenanter Bar. ... Covenanter Hotel is dated 1771 on a gable window; on the front, Roman Doric doorpiece with a swagged frieze.

Gallery

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  Front view
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  Date Stone
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  The Covenanter Bar