Glebe House, Manse Road, Linlithgow

Glebe House, located on Manse Road in Linlithgow, was built in 1801 with an addition to the rear made in 1862, likely by architect David Rhind. This is a two-storey, three-bay house with a symmetrical rectangular plan and a single-storey wing on the east side. There is also a later two-storey, piended L-plan addition at the rear. The exterior is constructed of cream sandstone rubble, squared and coursed on the north (entrance) elevation, featuring raised pointing, while the addition uses snecked and stugged cream sandstone rubble. The building has base, eaves, and lintel courses, a cornice, and raised margins.

On the north (entrance) elevation, there is a central doorpiece with a fanlit door, which is a fine panelled door with unusual detail, and a moulded architrave with a consoled cornice. The windows are arranged regularly on both the ground and first floors.

The west (side) elevation has an irregular arrangement of windows, including three basement windows, three ground floor windows, and two first floor windows at the far right and left, along with one window in the gable.

The south (rear) elevation features a single bay on the far right, with the addition abutting the centre and left.

On the east (side) elevation, there is one window in the gable and the single-storey wing.

The 1862 addition includes a door in the return of the wing that abuts the rear elevation of the house, with a window to the left and another window at the first floor to the right. The south elevation of the re-entrant angle has two bays, with windows in each bay on the left, a blocked window at ground level on the right, and a narrow blind window above. The wing projects to the left, featuring a single bay south elevation with bipartite windows.

The west (side) elevation of the addition has two bays, each with windows, and a recessed gable elevation of the original house remains to the left.

The original 1801 house has four-pane sash and case windows, while the addition features eight-pane windows. The roof is made of grey slate, with ashlar coped skews, skewputts, sandstone coped corniced stacks, and moulded cans at the gables. There are tall stacks on the addition at the wallhead on the west side and at the re-entrant angle.

Inside, there is a brick vaulted wine cellar and floreated plaster cornices in the rooms on the ground and first floors of the addition.

The gatepiers are made of sandstone rubble and are corniced and capped.