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North Queensferry, Helen Place, Heron House
Fish House (18th Century)
Site Name North Queensferry, Helen Place, Heron House
Classification Fish House (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Chapel Lane; Herring House
Canmore ID 50966
Site Number NT18SW 45
NGR NT 13219 80477
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/50966
- Council Fife
- Parish Inverkeithing
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
Publication Account (1999)
Heron House, once called Herring House, also on Helen Place, is a further example of an eighteenth-century building. Originally built as a barn, it takes its name either from the fact that it was used for gutting herring and repairing fishing nets or from Helen McRitchie, who lived nearby in Yoll Cottage.
Information from ‘Historic North Queensferry and the Peninsula: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1999).
