The domestic architecture of a Fife river port prior to 1810: Kincardine-on-Forth

Abstract

I have been interested in the old houses of Clackmannanshire and in those of neighbouring counties since 1938. I have prepared a thesis on ‘The Castellated andDomestic Architecture of Clackmannanshire and its borders from the Medieval Period to 1830’, with a section comparing the architecture of this area with similar architecture found elsewhere in western Europe. In so doing, I have taken the opportunity of examining the old houses in Kincardine-on-Forth.

The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments, Inventory for the Counties of Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan, published in 1933, gave no written report of the ‘burgh of barony’ Kincardine-on-Forth, which became a busy riverport by the eighteenth century. Several admirable photographs were taken of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century houses by the officers of the National BuildingsRecord, a few of which are used to illustrate the following article.