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.