West Calder Railway Station is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 May 1988. Station. 4 related planning applications.
West Calder Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- iron-pier-solstice
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1988
- Type
- Station
- Address
- West Calder Railway Station, EH55 8BS
- OS grid reference
- NT 020 633
- Coordinates
- 55.85361, -3.56694
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Calder Railway Station, built around 1869, is a small station and station master's house constructed for the Cleland and Midcalder Line of the Caledonian Railway. The building is single storey and made of stugged ashlar. It has an L-plan layout on the westbound side. Facing the platform, there is a low range featuring a wide three-light window in the central waiting room and a lower gabled block on the western gable. To the east, there is an advanced gable bay with a canted window. The east-facing block has three bays, with a central door flanked by two windows. A porch is located in the re-entrant angle to the south. The roof is slate with coped end stacks.
Local climate
West Calder Railway Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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