56-60 South Street, Bo'Ness

56-60 South Street in Bo'ness is a three-storey, five-bay commercial and residential block, designed by James Thomson and completed in 1900. The building features Renaissance detailing and includes shops on the ground floor. It is constructed from stugged ashlar with polished dressings and rusticated quoins. Architectural elements include a ground floor entablature, a continuous frieze, an eaves cornice, and a blocking course. Above the ground floor, the windows are lugged architraved, forming vertical panels with pulvinated windowheads, cornices, and relief-carved aprons. The central bay on the upper floors is flanked by part-fluted Corinthian pilasters and topped with a pediment featuring acroteria. There are banded dividing pilasters with fluted capitals at the ground level, keystones, bracketed cills on the first floor, and stone mullions.

On the principal elevation, the ground floor center bay has a small keystoned window flanked by panelled timber doors, with the left door being two-leaf and both having deep plate glass fanlights. To the left, there is a traditional shop with an in-canted part-glazed timber door, a mosaic-patterned doorstep, and a panelled soffit, along with fixed flanking display windows. A modern shop occupies the bay to the right. The first floor features a center bay with relief-carved detail below the cill of a keystoned bipartite window, which is adorned with a carved swag and has another bipartite window above. The flanking bays each have a single window on every floor, while the outer bays contain bipartite windows.

The rear elevation is asymmetrically fenestrated and includes various elements such as single-storey projections at the ground level on both the right and left sides, and an off-centre right pend entrance with stair windows above in the center.

The west elevation is blank, dominated by a shouldered wallhead stack, and is adjacent to a neighboring property on the outer left.

The building features plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows and is roofed with grey slates. The ashlar stacks are coped, shouldered, and banded, with square cans, and there is a truncated wallhead stack at the rear.

Inside, the interiors boast decorative plasterwork cornices and cantilevered stone staircases with decorative ironwork balusters and timber handrails in No 56, while No 58 has plain ironwork balusters. Panelled shutters are also present. The shop at No 60 features decorative plasterwork cornices and original inner display windows.