West Lodge, Carriden House, Bo'Ness is a Grade C listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 November 1980. House, lodge.
West Lodge, Carriden House, Bo'Ness
- WRENN ID
- odd-clay-russet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1980
- Type
- House, lodge
- OS grid reference
- NT 018 807
- Coordinates
- 56.0096, -3.57519
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Lodge at Carriden House in Bo'Ness dates back to 1844. This building was originally a single-storey and two-storey picturesque school for girls and later served as a lodge for Carriden House. It is situated on a sloping site and is primarily constructed from coursed tolled rubble with ashlar margins. The design features chamfered openings, some stone mullions, overhanging eaves, and a half-hipped roof.
On the south elevation, there is a single-storey, two-bay section with an advanced gabled part that includes a tripartite canted bay window dated 1844 on the right side. The north elevation has a window on the ground floor to the right and features a double pile roof. The west elevation shows both single-storey and two-storey elements, with a gable-headed window on the left and a bipartite window with a stone mullion in an advanced half-hipped section on the right. There is also a near-central projecting wing with a piend roof that has an entrance that partly oversails the ground floor.
The east elevation is two-storey and two-bay, featuring a gabled bay on the left with a bipartite window with a stone mullion on the first floor and an arrow slit above it. The building has modern pivot windows, is covered with graded grey slates, and has a concrete ridge stack on the south elevation. Originally, there was a paired ashlar stack with a cornice on the left gable of the north elevation, but only one stack remains.
The interior of the building has been comprehensively modernised.
Local climate
West Lodge, Carriden House, 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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