Tidings Hill, Cadzow Crescent, Bo'Ness

Tidings Hill is a large, two-storey and attic, L-plan Arts and Crafts house dating to 1908, designed by Hunter Crawford. The house has been sympathetically subdivided into two dwellings. It is constructed with harling and features moulded ashlar window and door surrounds. The windows are stone mullioned, with bipartite and tripartite arrangements, and include bow windows. The roof is multi-gabled, with mosaic detail at the gable apexes, and incorporates prominent stacks.

The west-facing (garden) elevation has six bays. A large, wide stack rises from the ground, visually separating bays five and six. To the left is an advanced two-storey and attic gable with a five-light canted bow window on both the ground and first floors. A single bay is set in the re-entrant angle. A near-central entrance is adorned with side lights and a semicircular cornice above, featuring a timber door with leaded pane glazing in the upper portion.

The east elevation incorporates a two-storey wing to the left, featuring a contemporary timber conservatory with an apsidal end on the outer left. To the right is a two-storey and attic wing set at right angles, with an M-pile gable. A flat-roofed single-storey entrance is located in the re-entrant angle. A cast-iron rainwater head dated 1908 is visible on the south elevation.

The windows are predominantly 15-pane leaded casements. The roof is tiled in red, and large stacks are located on the west and north elevations, along with further ridge stacks. The building features good quality cast-iron rainwater goods, including some downpipes with decorative hoppers.

The interior is largely intact and of excellent quality. A long, timber-panelled drawing room is a key feature, with a timber beamed ceiling and wide timber floorboards. A large timber ingleneuk displays the carved motto ‘ANE'S AIN HEARTH IS GOWD'S WORTH’. The original joinerywork is of a very high standard, including 12-panel timber doors. The former dining room has been converted into a kitchen. Numerous original fireplaces and chimneypieces remain. On the first floor, two timber-panelled bathrooms retain original baths and fittings.

Ancillary structures include a combined glasshouse and potting shed to the north. The glasshouse is timber-framed, while the potting shed is harled with an asymmetrical gable and pantiles. A later garage is located to the south and is harled with a red tile roof that slopes down to the east, with a south-facing entrance.

To the southeast, massive circular gatepiers constructed of coursed rubble with rounded caps support cast-iron gates. A pair of similar, but more slender, gatepiers are located to the southwest. A high rubble boundary wall with long and short rubble coping runs along the south and east sides. This wall was breached in 2004 to create an entrance to a new house.