78-80 High Street, Linlithgow is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1992. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

78-80 High Street, Linlithgow

WRENN ID
forgotten-quartz-willow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 March 1992
Type
Tenement
Address
78-80 High Street, Linlithgow, EH49 7AQ
OS grid reference
NT 003 771
Coordinates
55.97697, -3.59883
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

78-80 High Street in Linlithgow is an early 19th-century, two-storey and attic tenement building with three bays, featuring a shop at the ground level and a pend to the left. The south elevation is rendered and includes a base course, a continuous cill course with fluting between the cills, a lintel course, and a cornice.

The entrance elevation on the south side has a tripartite shop front, which includes a central flush-panelled door with a fanlight, flanked by display windows that have chamfered surrounds. There is also an iron vent grill located below the window to the left.

The north rear elevation features a two-storey wing with a spiral staircase. The building has 12-pane sash and case windows, with 4-pane windows in the dormers. The roof is covered with grey slate and has two piended slate-hung dormers. The building is topped with ashlar coped skew and has mutual gable stacks.

Local climate

78-80 High Street, 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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