Lomond Tearoom

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Building details
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Name Lomond Tavern
Address Horsemarket, Falkland
Postcode KY15 7BFG
Date 1819
OS grid ref NO 25284 7301
Latitude & longitude
Listing Category C
Listing ref LB31319
Listing name Lomond Tavern, Falkland

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The Lomond Tavern is a public house in Horsemarket, Falkland.

Listing description

Dated MB 1819 at panel with boot over lintel. 2-storey 3-window (ground floor windows altered to bipartite) painted rubble with painted margins, pantiled.[1]

Former residents

Mr and Mrs Kennoway.

Further references

"An application was received from John Kennoway, miner, East Wemyss, for transfer of certificate for the Lomond Tavern. The clerk read a petition signed by a number of influential residents in Falkland objecting to the granting of the licence.[2]

"Desirable licensed premises for sale. These premises known as Lomond Tavern. All particulars can be obtained from Gibson & Spears, solicitors, Kirkcaldy."[3]

"At the death of Mr Kennoway in October last year, the certificate was transferred to his widow, and from that time the business had been managed by the applicant, Mr Herd, who was Mrs Kennoway’s uncle. Mr Herd had been engaged in the trade all his life. ... The late Mr Kennoway paid £950 for the house,The late Mr Kennoway paid £950 for the house, and it kept him and would keep his widow in comfort. There had never been a complaint as to the way in which the house was conducted."[4]

Notes

  1. HES listing page
  2. Fife Herald, 17 April 1907, quoted in Playfair and Burgess, page 184
  3. FA, 1 March 1913, quoted in Playfair and Burgess, page 399.
  4. St Andrews Citizen, 19 April 1913, quoted in Playfair and Burgess, pages 406–7.