Drums House

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Building summary
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Name Drums House
Address Falkland
Postcode KY15 7DL
Other names Drums Farmhouse
Date 18th century
Architect
See map Map B[1]
OS grid ref NO 27003 5333
Latitude & longitude 56°14′06″N 3°10′45″W
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HES listing details[2]
Category C
Reference / Date LB8823 / 22/10/1984
Address/Site Name Drums Farmhouse
Description

18th century with later additions. 2-storey 3-window harled with central gablet, late porch and other additions.

Drums House is a house standing in its own grounds to the south of the A912. Drums Doocot is close by.

Further references

"[The late Mr Alexander Bonthrone] was predeceased by his wife several years ago, who was a daughter of the late Mr Barclay, Drums, a well-known Fife agriculturalist up to his death fifteen or sixteen yeas ago."[3]

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ The original version of the map erroneously shows it the wrong side of the A912, in the location of Nether Drums. This has been corrected in the colour version.
  2. ↑ HES record for LB8823
  3. ↑ Fife News, 12 May 1906, quoted in Playfair and Burgess, page 144.