Falkland Hall

Falkland Hall is a town house built around 1578, with alterations made to the windows in the 18th century and further changes in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed from coursed and squared rubble, partly resting on a moulded plinth, and features a Cotswold stone roof with coped verges and small ashlar end chimneys. Although the original plan has been altered, a view by Buckler from 1821 shows a distinctive central group of twisted chimneys and a blank area on the ground floor that may have served as an entrance, suggesting a lobby entry.

The house is three stories tall, with an attic lit from the end gables, and has no gables on the front. The front elevation has a 2:1:2 window arrangement, with a prominent stone oriel bay on the first floor that features 1:2:1 hollow-chamfered two-light mullions, a finial, a moulded cornice, a plinth, and a corbel. The second floor has hollow-chamfered two-light mullion windows, with a single light in the center. The first floor has 18th-century glazing-bar sash windows in raised flat surrounds with cock-beads and keys, with the outer windows being 12-pane and the inner 16-pane. On the ground floor, there are pairs of similar post-1821 windows flanking the central space beneath the oriel, along with outer doorways that have similar architraves. A moulded string runs over the ground floor, raised up to the plinth of the oriel, although it is interrupted by the ground floor window and door architraves.

The house extends into Priory Lane, where it connects to Nos 1 and 2 Priory Lane. The north gable has small lights, while the south gable retains the remains of a large first-floor window. The rear of the building has lost its fine stair-turret, which resembles seigneurial types found in the Loire region of France, suggesting it may have once served as a principal entrance. However, access to the rear would have been easier via Priory Lane, making this unlikely. Inside, the ground floor ceiling has been removed to create a galleried shop-hall.