47, 49 South Street, Bo'Ness is a Grade C listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 2004. Flatted dwelling, commercial. 1 related planning application.
47, 49 South Street, Bo'Ness
- WRENN ID
- buried-timber-crow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 2004
- Type
- Flatted dwelling, commercial
- Address
- 47, 49 South Street, Bo'Ness, EH51 9HA
- OS grid reference
- NS 999 816
- Coordinates
- 56.01739, -3.60705
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
47 and 49 South Street in Bo'Ness is a three-storey, three-bay flatted dwelling built in 1903 by James Thomson. It features shops on the ground floor and forms part of an irregular terrace. The exterior is characterized by narrow bands of stugged ashlar, polished quoins, and decorative dressings, with cornices at both the ground floor and eaves. The windows above the ground floor are architraved and arranged in vertical panels, with brackets supporting the first-floor windows. Stone mullions are also present.
The principal elevation is symmetrical above the ground floor. It has three traditionally detailed shopfronts on the ground level, each featuring an in-canted part-glazed timber door, a deep plate glass fanlight to the right, and a fixed display window to the left, separated by plain dividing pilasters and a frieze or fascia. The central shopfront includes a mosaic-tiled doorstep. Above, the first floor has a single pedimented window in the center bay, flanked by bipartite windows in the outer bays. The second floor mirrors this fenestration, with a tall shouldered wallhead stack located in the center.
The windows are fitted with plate glass glazing in replacement timber sash and case frames. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is a coped ashlar stack with a can and ashlar-coped skews. A square-section cast-iron downpipe is also present.
Local climate
47, 49 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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