68-70 South Street, Bo'Ness is a Grade C listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. Dwelling. 2 related planning applications.
68-70 South Street, Bo'Ness
- WRENN ID
- fallow-tracery-smoke
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Type
- Dwelling
- Address
- 68-70 South Street, Bo'Ness, EH51 9HA
- OS grid reference
- NS 999 816
- Coordinates
- 56.01721, -3.60678
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
68-70 South Street in Bo'ness is a late 18th century, two-storey and attic, five-bay flatted dwelling. The building features a late 20th century shop at ground level that is not in keeping with the original character. The exterior is made of painted ashlar with raised margins and quoin strips, while the sides and rear are harled. Architectural details include a base course, a bracketed cornice at the ground floor, and an eaves course. The façade is enhanced by fluted Doric pilasters with triglyphed entablatures above the eaves, supporting an open-pedimented gablet. The windows are keystoned and round-headed.
On the principal (north) elevation, the ground floor has a central door flanked by multi-pane fixed windows. The first floor features five regularly spaced windows, and there is a small round-headed window in the centre of the gablet, with three Velux rooflights on the sloping sides of the roof.
The east elevation is a blank gable, while the south (rear) elevation has been altered and includes a variety of elements, such as an advanced gable on the left and an extension on the right.
The windows throughout the building have a 12-pane glazing pattern with a decoratively astragalled upper sash over a 6-pane lower sash, all made of timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped harled and ashlar stacks with some chimney cans, as well as ashlar-coped skews with scroll skewputts.
Local climate
68-70 South Street, Bo'Ness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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