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Moncrief House, High Street, Falkland

A Category A Listed Building in Falkland, Fife

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.2534 / 56°15'12"N

Longitude: -3.2066 / 3°12'23"W

OS Eastings: 325340

OS Northings: 707414

OS Grid: NO253074

Mapcode National: GBR 27.9ZJQ

Mapcode Global: WH6R7.Q28Y

Plus Code: 9C8R7Q3V+89

Entry Name: Moncrief House, High Street, Falkland

Listing Name: Moncrief House, High Street

Listing Date: 1 December 1971

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 372502

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB31274

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Falkland, High Street, Moncrief House

ID on this website: 200372502

Location: Falkland

County: Fife

Town: Falkland

Electoral Ward: Howe of Fife and Tay Coast

Traditional County: Fife

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Description

Dated 'NM AO 1610' on lintel over entrance. Two-storey and dormerless attic, four-bay house, part of terrace. Roughly squared and coursed stone with moulded openings. First floor window to outer right with inscribed panel below and small blind attic window under eaves first floor window to outer right. Thatched roof with raised thatch ridge. Crowstepped skews, ridge and end chimney stacks.

Inscribed panel: AL PRAISE TO GOD AND/THANKIS TO THE MOST/EXCELLENT MONARCHE/GREAT BRITAINE OF WH/OSE PRINCELIE LIBERA/LITIE THIS IS MY POR/TIOVNE: DEO LAVS/ ESTO FIDYS/ADEST MERCES/NICOLL MONCRIEF

Statement of Interest

The initials inscribed in the lintel over the entrance refer to Nicol Moncrief, a servant of King James VI.

It is among a relatively small number of traditional buildings with a surviving thatched roof found across Scotland. A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland, published in 2016 by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), found there were only around 200 buildings of this type remaining, most of which are found in small rural communities. Thatched buildings are often traditionally built, showing distinctive local and regional building methods and materials. Those that survive are important in helping us understand these traditional skills and an earlier way of life.

Listed building record revised in 2021 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review.

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