Blackburn House is a Grade A listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. 1 related planning application.
Blackburn House
- WRENN ID
- dusk-chancel-equinox
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1971
- Address
- Blackburn House, EH47 7AQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 000 656
- Coordinates
- 55.87324, -3.59835
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Blackburn House is a house dating from the later 18th century, built in a Georgian style. It is a two-storey building with a basement and attics to the rear, and has a five-window front. The walls are of coursed rubble, with corner stones, and the roof is hipped and slate-covered. A projecting central pavilion features a portico with a distyle in antis design. There are two polygonal projecting bays to the rear. The interior retains original six-panelled doors and other timber woodwork, along with plaster relief decoration. It is thought the house may have been built for George Moncrieff, an agricultural improver of Blackburn.
Adjacent to the house are offices, two storeys in height and built of random rubble with piended, slate-covered roofs. These are linked to the main house by quadrant walls.
Local climate
Blackburn House 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 — 1 application
- 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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