Covenanter Hotel
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| 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 (previously the Commercial Hotel, is an hotel in Falkland.
It takes its current 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).
Special features
Extensions
The hotel now incorporates, as its easter extesnion, the Covenanter Bar, previously a separate establsihment.
Former residents
John Angus (early 2oth century)
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.[1]
13 June 1903: Advertisement
Commercial Hotel. Falkland.
John Angus, Proprietor.
FIRST CLASS ACCOMMODATION FOR VISITORS.
PICNICS AND EXCURSIONS CATERED FOR.
The above Hotel is provided with every convenience, including a Large Hall adjoining Hotel, specially Erected for Excursion Parties; also, Four Bedrooms, Parlour, and Kitchen, with W.C.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Gifford, Fife, page 220.
- ↑ Playfair and Burgess, page 76.
Gallery
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Front view
Date Stone
The Covenanter Bar
