Anderson Building, 23-29 South Street, Bo'Ness

The Anderson Building, located at 23-29 South Street in Bo'ness, was designed by James Thomson and completed in 1902. This three-storey, three-bay tenement features classical detailing and includes shops on the ground floor, forming part of a regular terrace. The building is constructed of ashlar stone with raised quoins and showcases a ground floor entablature, a deep eaves lintel course, a cornice, and a blocking course. Notable architectural elements include channelled pilasters and fluted capitals, lugged architraves for the first and second floor openings, bracketed cills, pulvinated friezes, and cornices on the first floor, as well as fielded aprons and lugs on the second floor outer bays. The windows are adorned with stone mullions.

On the south (principal) elevation, there is a deep-set six-panelled timber door with a large plate glass fanlight located off-centre to the right at ground level. To the right of this door is a shop entrance with an in-canted door to the left and a fixed display window to the right, while a traditional shop door with a mosaic-tiled doorstep is situated to the left. Each floor above features a single window in the centre and bipartite windows in the flanking bays. A relief carved panel inscribed 'ANDERSON BUILDING' is positioned between the floors at the centre, with decorative consoles flanking the window head at the second floor, which leads to a shouldered wallhead stack marked with the date '1902'.

The building has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows and is topped with grey slates. The coped ashlar stacks, with the southern stack being corniced, are complemented by cans and ashlar-coped skews. Cast-iron downpipes feature decorative rainwater hoppers on the southeast side.

Inside, the shop at No 23 includes deeply moulded cornices, boarded walls, and some traditional shelving supported by decorative cast-iron brackets.