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
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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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