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Valleyfield Estate, Valleyfield House
Country House (18th Century) - (19th Century), Pediment(S) (16th Century)
Site Name Valleyfield Estate, Valleyfield House
Classification Country House (18th Century) - (19th Century), Pediment(S) (16th Century)
Alternative Name(s) High Valleyfield, Newmills; High Valleyfield House
Canmore ID 49435
Site Number NT08NW 15
NGR NT 0053 8721
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49435
- Council Fife
- Parish Culross
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT08NW 15.00 0053 8721
NT08NW 15.01 NT centred on 00497 87392 Walled Garden
NT08NW 15.02 NT 005 872 Archaeological Survey
NT08NW 15.03 NT 00463 87327 Icehouse
NT08NW 15.04 NT 00836 86970 Rustic Bridge 1
NT08NW 15.05 NT 00730 87122 Rustic Bridge 2
NT08NW 15.06 NT 00381 87252 Stables
Published as High Valleyfield House (NAT)
OS 6" map, Fifeshire, 1st ed., (1853)
No trace.
Visited by OS June 1953.
NMRS REFERENCE:
Demolished pre 1939
'Red Book' of Humphry Repton shows intended improvements to the park at Valleyfield.
Samuel Butler - erecting hot-house c.1801
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Record Office
19.9.1809: Carron Co. Invoice for 8 adjusted Engish Weights
Edinburgh Room, Edinburgh Central Library
Scots Magazine - April 1811 - 1 engraving
National Museum of Antiquities
Model of Valleyfield House.
Field Visit (9 August 1932)
158(a). Architectural Fragments, Valleyfield House.
Two incomplete pediments showing respectively two sets of initials, J.P. and I.[E], and the date 1581, as well as a roundel bearing the initials J.P. and G.S., have been inserted into the ruinous east wall of Valleyfield House. Part of a third pediment, built into the inner side of the east wall of the garden near by, shows the upper half of a shield surmounted by helm, wreath, mantling and crest, with an illegible motto on a label over all. The shield has borne an inescutcheon, the charges on which are indecipherable, between three unicorns' heads erased, for Preston of Valleyfield, who built the earlier mansion from which these relics have been taken.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 9 August 1932.
