37-43 North Street, Bo'Ness

Dated 1884 and restored in 1986 by William A Cadell Architects, this building is a three-storey, five-bay Scots Baronial style tenement with shops at ground level, situated on a flat-iron plan. It is constructed of squared rubble with polished ashlar dressings, incorporating cill courses, stepped string courses, and eaves courses. The window openings feature roll-moulded, shouldered, and segmental arches, along with stone pediments, raked cills, stop-chamfered arrises, and stone mullions.

The principal (south-east) elevation features bays alternating between crowstepped chimney-headed gables and finialled pedimented dormerheads. The gable to the left incorporates an M-gable and carved rung coping; the dormerhead to the left is triangular with a star finial, and the one to the right is semicircular with a crescent moon finial. The ground floor has tripartite shop fronts in two bays on the left, a door and small bipartite window in the central bay, a tall bipartite window towards the right, and a further tripartite shop front on the outer right. The upper floors have regular fenestration of alternate bipartite and single windows; the first-floor windows are segmental-headed with an additional diminutive window above. Decorative fielded panels are present on each gablehead – the left gable displays two shielded panels, the centre gable is inscribed 'BUILT ANNO DOMINI 1884', and the right gable is inscribed 'VIVE UT POSTEA VIVUS' (live so that you may live).

The angle tower, at the apex of the site, is rounded and has a bipartite window on each floor. The second floor is jettied and topped with a crenellated-effect parapet including canon spouts and a tall, weathervane-finialled conical roof.

The west (Scotland's Close) elevation is asymmetrically fenestrated and incorporates a crowstepped gable flanked by pedimented dormer windowheads (semicircular to the left and triangular to the right). A paired door sits below a vermiculated panel in a penultimate bay, while a further crowstepped gable to the right displays a recessed panel inscribed 'EXCEPT THE LORD BUILDS ' IN VAIN BUILDS MAN'.

The north elevation is gabled and adjoins the 'A' listed Dymock's Buildings.

Timber sash and case windows contain four-pane and plate glass, with bowed glass in the tower windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the chimneys are coped with ashlar, including cans; ashlar-coped skews are also present. Cast-iron downpipes have decorative rainwater hoppers.