Gates And Railings And Ancillary Structures, 12-16 (Even Nos) Corbiehall Including Boundary Walls is a Grade C listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 March 2006. Police station.

Gates And Railings And Ancillary Structures, 12-16 (Even Nos) Corbiehall Including Boundary Walls

WRENN ID
rusted-truss-tarn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Falkirk
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 March 2006
Type
Police station
OS grid reference
NS 996 815
Coordinates
56.01623, -3.61165
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building, constructed in 1891, is a two-storey, seven-bay classical former police station that includes staff accommodation. It is made of squared and snecked tooled sandstone, featuring chamfered openings. The outer two bays are piended and advanced, each with entrances that have consoled pediments. The building has an eaves course and a piended roof. Some windows are bipartite and tripartite, with stone mullions, and there is a single-storey wing at the rear that housed former cells.

The south elevation is near-symmetrical, with a central three-bay section that has central bipartite windows flanked by single light windows, except for the ground right side, which has a door with a simple rectangular fanlight above. The storeys were originally divided by a sign that has been removed, but some lettering reading 'POLICE STATION' is still partly visible. To the left, there is an advanced two-bay section with tripartite windows in the outer bay and a door in the inner bay, with a single light window above that forms part of the staff quarters. This door also has a semicircular fanlight above and a consoled pediment. The advanced two-bay section to the right mirrors that on the left.

The building predominantly features four-pane timber sash and case windows with horns and is roofed with graded grey slates. There are wallhead stacks to the west and east, as well as further ridge stacks.

Inside, the staff quarters contain a good quality timber staircase, some original tiled chimneypieces, and timber panelling to the dado. There are four or six-panel timber doors. In the police station area, there are four cells that have been altered, with possibly three original cells remaining. High small external openings have been blocked.

There are ancillary structures nearby, including a single-storey, three-bay snecked sandstone flat-roofed building with a stack at the rear, which is in poor repair. To the northwest, there are small brick-built lean-to sheds.

The boundary walls, gates, and railings include a high sandstone rubble wall to the north and west, a lower sandstone rubble wall with flat coping to the east, and a short section of railing outside the station itself with slender cast-iron gatepiers at the entrance. To the west and east, there are slender cast-iron gatepiers, with the eastern one featuring a timber boarded gate.

Local climate

Gates And Railings And Ancillary Structures, 12-16 (Even Nos) Corbiehall Including Boundary Walls 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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