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Revision as of 11:15, 27 November 2020

Building details
House of Falkland (geograph 3053145).jpg
Name House of Falkland
Address Falkland Estate
Postcode KY15 7AE
Other names Falkland House
Date 1839
OS grid ref NO242074
Latitude & longitude 56°15'11"N 3°13'27"W
Listing Category A
Listing reference LB8763
Listing name House of Falkland Estate, House of Falkland, Including Terraces and Fountains

The Hiose if Falkland is a major country house to the west of theBurgh of Falkland, now used as a school.

Listing description

William Burn, 1839-44. 2-storey, 6- x 7- bay, L-plan, balustraded and crowstep-gabled Jacobean manor house with attached single-storey and attic servants' courtyard to NW (currently school, 2011). Sandstone ashlar with buckle quoins. Base course, band course, cornice. Bi- and tri-partite window openings with stone mullions and transoms. Some narrow slit windows. Moulded architraves; some windows with strapwork window heads and aprons. Square corner turrets with finialled ogee roofs. Tall chimneys with barley sugar decorative shafts. ...

There's much more in the full listing description[1]

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Former residents

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