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Revision as of 07:45, 25 January 2024
| Building summary | |
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 High Street front (Vintage Quine)
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| Name | Vintage Quine |
| Address | High Street, Falkland |
| Postcode | ? |
| Other names | |
| Date | 18th/early 19th centuries |
| OS grid ref | NO 25192 07350 |
| Latitude & longitude | 56°15′10″N 3°12′32″W |
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| HES listing details[1] | |
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| Reference / Date | / |
| Address/Site Name | |
| Description: | |
| Statement of special interest: | |
| 1963 listing details[2] | |
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Vintage Quine is a shop in Falkland High Street, on the corner with South Street West. Google Streetview shows it with a sign saying "Library Services Scotland" in October 2009.
The upper floor, with a frontage on South Street West, is now a separate house called Whinstone (not to be confused with Whinstone House, High Street West. There is a separate article for the eastern Extension to Whinstone.
Both parts of the building were used by Spittals, ironmongers.
Listings
| HES listing details[3] | ||
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| Reference: LB31285 | Date: 1/12/1971 | Category: B |
| Address/Site Name
Spittal and Son's property, High Street and South Street West | ||
| Description
18th/early 19th centuries crusset block. High Street frontage is early 19th century 2-storey 3-window whin rubble with sandstone dressings, 1-window west frontage at gusset; South Street West frontage is single-storey stuccoed with railed forestairs. | ||
| Statement of special interest
Narrow cobbled pavement to High Street, cobbled area to South Street West. | ||
| 1963 listing details[4] |
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| Number: 46 |
| Address/Site Name
House, South Street, at corner of High Street |
| Description
18th and 19th Centuries: 2-storey to High Street: black whin rubble and slate: single-storey with forestairs to South Street |
Previous uses
Library
Further references
"Then an early C19 block, built of whinstone, on the corner with Brunton Street."[5]
"Humouring to the irregularities of the site is a feature of traditional building. For example [...] the gusset block. early 19th century, at corner of Brunton and High Streets, fitted to shape and levels."[6]
Notes
- ↑ HES record for ####
- ↑ List of buildings, 1963.
- ↑ HES record for LB31285. Could "crusset" be a typo for "gusset"?
- ↑ List of buildings, 1963.
- ↑ Gifford, Fife, page 220. South Street West was sometimes described as being part of Brunton Street.
- ↑ Pride, Kingdom of Fife, page 220.
Further images
End view
South Street West front (Whinstone)
"Whinstone" Name plaque
