Historic houses · Scottish Highlands
Guildhall & Linen Exchange, 79-83 High Street, Dunfermline
Guildhall & Linen Exchange, 79-83 High Street, Dunfermline in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
Richard Sutcliffe — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Guildhall & Linen Exchange, 79-83 High Street, Dunfermline is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Guildhall, also known as The Guildhall & Linen Exchange, is a historic building on the High Street in Dunfermline in Scotland. The structure, which currently operates as a public house, is a Category A listed building.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
]] The building was commissioned in July 1807 by the guilds of the local merchants who wanted Dunfermline to become the county town of Fife. The site they selected was on the south side of the High Street, close to the mercat cross. The new building was designed by Archibald Elliot in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1811. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of seven bays facing onto the High Street. The central bay, which was slightly projected forward, featured a square-headed doorway with a fanlight flanked by a pair of lancet windows on the ground floor, and a Venetian window on the first floor, all flanked by two pilasters supporting an…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 56.0712, -3.4614
- District
- Fife
- Postcode
- KY12 7PX
- Parliamentary constituency
- Dunfermline and Dollar
- Established
- 1811
Sources
- wikidata: Q17567635 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Dunfermline Guildhall (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Guildhall & Linen Exchange, 79-83 High Street, Dunfermline?
- Guildhall & Linen Exchange, 79-83 High Street, Dunfermline is in the Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom (postcode KY12 7PX).
- When was Guildhall & Linen Exchange, 79-83 High Street, Dunfermline built?
- Built or established in 1811.
- Who owns Guildhall & Linen Exchange, 79-83 High Street, Dunfermline?
- Guildhall & Linen Exchange, 79-83 High Street, Dunfermline is owned by | designation1 =Category A Listed Building.
- How do I get to Guildhall & Linen Exchange, 79-83 High Street, Dunfermline?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode KY12 7PX. It sits within the Dunfermline and Dollar parliamentary constituency.