Private Bridge, Castle Shotts Drive, Falkland

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 01/02/1972 Local Authority Fife Planning Authority Fife Parish Falkland NGR NO 25178 07500 Coordinates 325178, 707500 — John Kinross, 1891-2. Single, semi-circular arched, gentle hog-backed bridge over public road with adjoining wall and round-arched gateway to E. Squared and snecked rubble with ashlar parapet and intrados. Rusticated buttresses. Channelled vouissors. Coped parapet with base course and square-plan terminal piers. WALL AND GATEWAY TO E: coped squared and snecked rubble wall with band course. Round-arched gateway with channelled voussiors and impost course. 2-leaf slatted timber gate, leading to Falkland Palace policies. — This bridge is forms important part of the wider designed landscape and links the two estates of Falkland Place and House of Falkland. The stone work is well detailed and the bridge has a gentle hump-backed slope which adds to its interest. The use of architectural detailing, including the rusticated buttresses and channelled vouissoirs link the bridge stylistically to the rest of the building forming the estate. The gateway and linking wall form part of boundary of Falkland Palace Estate. When the 3rd Marquis of Bute became Keeper of the Palace and the owner of House of Falkland Estate in 1887. Falkland Palace was in great need of repair. He employed John Kinross to carry out restoration work to the building and Kinross also erected this bridge as part of a private walk between the two estates. John Kinross (1855-1931) was one of Scotland's leading architects of the period. Much of his later work involved restoration, including here, at Falkland Palace. This was one of a number of projects he carried out whilst benefitting from the patronage of the 3rd Marquis of Bute. He also worked on a number of country houses,

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.