Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

213, 215 HIGH STREETLB37421

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
16/03/1992
Local Authority
West Lothian
Planning Authority
West Lothian
Burgh
Linlithgow
NGR
NS 99880 77033
Coordinates
299880, 677033

Description

1844. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay house with shop at ground. Cream stugged sandstone rubble, squared and coursed to N elevation. Base and band courses, cornice and blocking course with cast-iron brattishing. Moulded reveals to ground floor windows, architraved windows to 1st floor to N. Raised droved ashlar margins to windows at rear.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: bays asymmetrically disposed at ground; deep-set door to centre with 2-leaf panelled door with glazed and etched upper panels and flanking panelled ingoes, screened by low, light wrought-iron shop gate; 2 display windows to right, 1 to left. Pend to outer right. Smaller window far left. 5 symmetrically placed windows at 1st floor.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2-storey wing projecting to right; fine curved stone forestair with cast-iron balustrade to door at 1st floor. Bipartite window at ground with ashlar mullions to W elevation of wing; window above with lintel incised 1844.

INTERIOR: wooden platform for display in shop window, carved and inscribed 'W L Morrison'; plasterwork cornices and architraved panelled door with attractive overdoor mouldings to principal 1st floor rooms.

Fixed glazing to shop windows; plate glass sash and case windows to N elevation; 12-pane sash and case to rear elevation. Grey slate roof, 2 canted slate-hung dormers with piended finialled roofs, rooflight to centre, rendered coped stacks to gables.

Statement of Special Interest

Sasines record that the house and shop were built in 1844.

References

Bibliography

Information courtesy of the owner.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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