Howden House, Livingston is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 February 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.

Howden House, Livingston

WRENN ID
broken-zinc-vale
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 February 1971
Type
House
Address
Howden House, Livingston, EH54 6AE
OS grid reference
NT 052 676
Coordinates
55.89273, -3.51722
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Howden House is a Georgian building from the later 18th century. The main block is three storeys high and features five bays, a skew-gabled roof, a moulded eaves course, an Ionic distyle porch, and a Palladian window at the rear. The wings of the house are two storeys with piended roofs. The exterior is harled, and the roofs are slated. There are also additions at the rear of the building.

Local climate

Howden House, Livingston sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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