Stag House and Stag Inn
| Building details | |
|---|---|
| |
| Name | Stag House |
| Address | High Street |
| Postcode | Falkland |
| Other names | KY15 7BU |
| Date | 1680 |
| OS grid ref | NO 25205 7377 |
| Latitude & longitude | |
| Listing | Category B |
| Listing ref | LB31262 |
| Listing name | Stag Inn, High Street and Mill Wynd |
Stag House is a private house in Falkland on the corner of High Street and Mill Wynd, between the Old Town House and Mill Green. It was previously the Stag Inn: the public house of that name has been separated off, and now occupied a bulding next door to the original inn, down Mill Wynd.
Listing description
Dated Il.EF 1680 at lintel of wing, front building probably of same period 2-storey 3-window painted stucco with painted margins, pantiled; harled and crowstepped gable to Wynd; much altered single-storey wing to north, rubble and pantile with piended roof.[1]
Previous uses
Public house
Special features
Gate pier with carving and the words "Stag Inn" (rather faint).
Former residents
James Weepers (1909)
Further references
"Behind [the Old Town House] the Stag Inn, probably late C17. Its single-storey back wing to Mill Wynd dated 1680."[2]
"... The picturesque Stag Inn, 1680, adapted at a later date to sloping corner site."[3]
"The Burgh Court was held on Monday, the Provost and Magistrates on the bench, when three men from Dundee pleaded guilty of a theft of eleven pints of ale from the Stag Inn. Sentence of ten days imprisonment or 7s 6d was imposed."[4]
"James Weepers, Stag Inn, admitted at Cupar Sheriff Court this afternoon having, on 10th June, sold two half glasses of whisky to the Cupar district sanitary inspector under the legal strength of 25 per cent, fixed by the Sale of Food and Drugs Act. ... The Sheriff: I think a nominal penalty will be sufficient here. You will be fined £1."[5]
Notes
- ↑ http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB31262
- ↑ Gifford, Fife, page 220.
- ↑ Pride, Kingdom of Fife, page 88.
- ↑ Fife Herald, 24 July 1901. Quoted in Playfair and Burgess, page 30.
- ↑ Dundee Evening Telegraph (?) 29 July 1909. Quoted in Playfair and Burgess, page 270.
Gallery
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Stag House from across the High Street
Another view
Gate pier with the words "Stag Inn"
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