1 Preston Road, Linlithgow

1 Preston Road in Linlithgow is a building designed by W. Scott in 1937, featuring a 2-and 3-storey asymmetrical local authority tenement in the Scottish 17th century style. The structure is made of cream sandstone random rubble, with 2-storey bays that are harled and adorned with ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include an eaves course, doorpieces with rounded margins, and 4-panel doors (two of which have glazed upper panels). The windows are single and bipartite, featuring ashlar mullions, while the gabled dormer-headed window has scrolled skewputts. The crowstepped gables are complemented by moulded beak skewputts.

On the west elevation, the left side consists of a 3-storey block with a doorpiece on the right and a window on the left, along with a dormer-headed window above at the first floor. To the left, there is a taller, lop-sided crowstepped gabled end bay, with skews that sweep down to the ground floor. This section includes a bipartite window at the ground, first, and second floors, as well as an arrowslit at the gablehead. There is also a window to the outer left at ground level. The right side features a 2-storey, 5-bay block that incorporates a taller, slightly advanced crowstepped gabled bay at the outer right. The doorpiece is off-centre to the right, with windows on both sides, two windows at the first floor, and bipartite windows at the far left on the ground and first floors. The gabled bay on the outer right also has bipartite windows at the ground and first floors, along with an arrowslit at the gablehead.

The north side elevation showcases a rounded angle that is corbelled to a square below the skewputt at the northwest corner. Above the ground floor, the steeply pitched roof features two swept dormers and an off-set coped stack, with a rooflight to the right. The windows include 12-pane sash and case designs, with 8 panes in each light of the bipartite windows, and small-pane casement windows in the dormers. The roof is covered with grey slate, and the stacks are harled, with original rainwater goods still in place.