The Court Residence, (Former Linlithgow Sheriff Court), including boundary walls and gatepiers, 1 Court Square, High Street, Linlithgow

Thomas Brown and James Maitland Wardrop, 1862-1863 with further additions by Wardrop and Charles Reid, 1875. There were internal alterations in the 1990s and further alterations for conversion into a hotel in 2014.

The building is a 2-storey, 6-bay, gabled L-plan Tudor Revival style former court house. The High Street elevation is asymmetrical with an advanced double gabled entrance bay to the right. The building is constructed in squared, stugged and snecked sandstone rubble with polished surrounds, and has a moulded base, string courses that continue to hoodmoulds over the ground floor openings and an eaves parapet. The windows are single, bipartite and tripartite with ashlar mullions and transoms and chamfered reveals. The doorpieces have stepped hoodmoulds and there are contrasting quoins and window margins. The building has corbelled and polygonal stone chimney stacks and decorative gable finials. There are five large pointed windows at the first floor on the rear elevation which are for the former courtroom. There is an 1875 2-storey addition to the east side with a further single storey cell block range to the rear.

The building has multi-pane timber sash and case windows. There is a grey slate roof with ashlar gablet-coped skews and beaked skewputts. The rainwater goods are dated 1863 and that at the centre of the north elevation has a carved thistle motif.

The interior was seen in 2014. A good late 19th century decorative scheme survive to the entrance stairway and the former first floor courtroom. The former courtroom has a timber boarded ceiling on decorative quatrefoil detail trusses which are supported by carved columnettes on stone corbels. The interior fittings of the courtroom have been removed as part of the 2014 renovations although the shouldered architraves to the doorways remain. The entrance hall is dominated by a large half turn stair with decorative cast iron ballusters. Some of the openings are pointed arched and some 6-panel doors, window shutters and decorative cornicing remain. At the southwest corner on the ground floor is a former record room with a triple vaulted ceiling.

There are ashlar coped retaining boundary walls at the front boundary and a rubble wall to the southwest of the building. There are decorative octagonal pyramidal gatepiers to the west side forming the entrance to rear courtyard.