19, 21 High Street, Linlithgow

This is a substantial three-storey Baronial-style tenement building, constructed in 1886. It occupies the High Street in Linlithgow and incorporates shops at ground level, along with a former hotel at the corner with St Michael’s Wynd. The building is built of cream sandstone with ashlar dressings, and features base and cill courses at the first and second floors, as well as a decorative cornice. The windows are single and bipartite, with moulded reveals and ashlar mullions.

The north (entrance) elevation of numbers 9 to 17 is symmetrical with five bays, displaying three shops each separated by fanlit entrance doors leading to the tenement. Each shop features a tripartite window arrangement with chamfered and moulded surrounds. The central bay has a corbelled and corniced bipartite window at the first floor, topped by a bipartite dormerhead with a curvilinear gable, a blind oculus in the gable, skewputts, and an urn finial. Flanking this are semi-circular, pedimented windows, one displaying a lozenge pattern in its tympanum (the other is weathered). Above these are gabled dormerheads. An outer bay to the right echoes the left-hand design; it features a bipartite window at the first floor, a dormerhead with a corbelled, crowstepped gable displaying the date stone '1886' and initials CM to the left gable. A ball finial and tall corbelled stack breaking the skew are also present at the wallhead.

Numbers 19 and 21 comprise the former hotel situated at the corner of High Street and St Michael’s Wynd. The north (entrance) elevation is symmetrical with four bays, incorporating a chamfered corner entrance to the right. A central fanlit door leads to the tenement, flanked by windows with cast iron guards. There is a window in each bay at the first floor. Gabled bays centrally break the eaves at the second floor, delineated by a corbelled gablehead stack. Windows are topped with gabled dormerheads, finials, and a curved, moulded gable to the right with a lozenge pattern in the tympanum of the left gable. The chamfered corner features a corbelled section above the entrance at the first floor and a corbelled circular bratizan topped with a fluted panel, blind arrow-loop windows, a corbelled eaves course, and a slated conical roof with a lead finial.

The west (side) elevation presents a gabled three-bay facade with irregularly spaced fenestration and crowstepped gables to the outer bays. The windows are sash and case style, with plate glass lower and multi-pane upper sashes, with two-pane uppers to the ground floor windows on the north face of the hotel. The roof is covered in grey slate, and features sandstone corniced gables and mutual stacks. Original rainwater goods are still in place.