Custom House, 14 Union Street, Bo'Ness

William Simpson of Stirling, circa 1880. Extensive 2-storey commercial range with splayed angle to W. Deep base course forming ground floor cill course, stepped band course and eaves course. Squared and snecked bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings. Roll-moulded segmental-headed openings to ground and basket-arched openings to 1st floor; deeply moulded doorheads; hoodmoulds with label stops; bracketted piend roofs; raked cills; stop-chamfered arrises, stone transoms and mullions.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: prominent centre bay with paired panelled timber doors and plate glass fanlights linked under segmental hoodmould with high relief carved crown flanked by 'V' and 'R', bipartite window at 1st floor giving way to cast-iron letters 'CUSTOM HOUSE' breaking eaves into corbelled cornice and piended roof. Flanking bays with single and bipartite windows punctuated by 2 further doors to left and 1 to right at ground, and smaller piend-roofed 1st floor bays; bay to outer left with transomed bipartite window at 1st floor with floreate carved top 'lights' flanked by canine gargoyles and breaking eaves into spike-finialled pavilion roof.

E ELEVATION: single window to ground with bipartite to 1st floor.

S (REGISTER STREET) ELEVATION: similar door and window treatment.

4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with cans. Decorative cast-iron finials.

INTERIOR: little altered interiors retaining decorative plasterwork cornices and centre roses; stone dog-leg staircases with decorative cast-iron balusters; architraved surrounds, panelled timber shutters and carved and plain timber fire surrounds. Also with etched glass screen door and tiled hall to No 7 Register Street.