Douglas Cottage, Friars Brae, Linlithgow

Earlier 19th century. Single storey, 3-bay, T-plan Tudor style school, now residential. Cream stugged sandstone rubble, squared and coursed to N (entrance) and side elevations, droved ashlar dressings. Base course, cornice, hoodmoulded bipartite and tripartite windows with pointed lights and chamfered stone mullions and surrounds.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATIONS: advanced gabled bay to centre, hoodmoulded pointed-arch doorpiece with chamfered surrounds, fanlight with Gothic astragals; flanked by tripartite windows.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: originally 3 bipartitre windows, window to left now blocked.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay; projecting centre block, small window on right return, bipartite window on left return; window to far right; 2-bay harled later addition in re-entrant angle to left with flat, leaded roof, door and pointed window to S elevation, pointed window on left return.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2 bipartite windows.

10-pane sash and case windows to each light. Grey slate piended roof, over-hanging eaves, rooflight to E, polygonal paired sandstone corniced an coped stacks breaking eaves at wallhead to side elevations.

OUTBUILDING: single storey, square plan wash-house. Cream sandstone rubble. 2 doors to S elevation; window to W elevation. Grey slate roof with ridge vent, corniced stack to NE corner.