Cross Well, The Cross, Linlithgow is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. Well. 11 related planning applications.

Cross Well, The Cross, Linlithgow

WRENN ID
sunken-hammer-foxglove
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1971
Type
Well
Address
Cross Well, The Cross, Linlithgow, EH49 7EY
OS grid reference
NT 002 771
Coordinates
55.9771, -3.60059
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Cross Well in Linlithgow, built by stonemason Robert Gray in 1807, is an elaborately carved hexagonal well made of cream sandstone ashlar. It features a stepped base and a tall plinth, with two offset decorative stages. The lower stage has pinnacled angles, while the upper stages are adorned with figures and cusped flying buttresses. Mask-gargoyles sit atop the structure, and a circular cupola supports a unicorn holding a scroll with a lion rampant.

To the south, there is an adjacent pedestal that includes a mask gargoyle and the town's arms, which is dated 1807 in the tympanum. Additionally, there is a commemorative stone slab nearby, inscribed to honor the town's 600 years as a Royal Burgh from 1389 to 1989, created by Vincent Butler RSA in 1989.

Local climate

Cross Well, The Cross, Linlithgow sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% 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 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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