Ormiston Hill House is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 June 1980. House. 6 related planning applications.

Ormiston Hill House

WRENN ID
lunar-hearth-smoke
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 June 1980
Type
House
Address
Ormiston Hill House, EH27 8DQ
OS grid reference
NT 100 663
Coordinates
55.88217, -3.43941
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ormiston Hill House is a 17th century traditional building that stands two storeys tall and has three bays. The exterior is harled, featuring a corbie-step gable and a slated roof. There is a one and a half storey addition to the east, which also has three bays and is skew-gabled with piended dormers. A string-course runs along the building, and at the rear, there is a lean-to that includes a doorway with a pediment and pilasters.

Local climate

Ormiston Hill House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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