Douglas Cottage, Friars Brae, Linlithgow

Douglas Cottage is an earlier 19th-century, single-storey, three-bay, T-plan school building designed in the Tudor style, which has since been converted into a residential property. The exterior features cream stugged sandstone rubble that is squared and coursed on the north (entrance) and side elevations, with droved ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a base course, a cornice, and hoodmoulded bipartite and tripartite windows that have pointed lights and chamfered stone mullions and surrounds.

On the north (entrance) elevation, there is an advanced gabled bay at the center, which includes a hoodmoulded pointed-arch doorpiece with chamfered surrounds and a fanlight featuring Gothic astragals. This doorpiece is flanked by tripartite windows. The east (side) elevation originally had three bipartite windows, but the window on the left is now blocked. The south (rear) elevation is three-bay with a projecting center block, a small window on the right return, and a bipartite window on the left return, along with a window at the far right. There is also a two-bay harled later addition in the re-entrant angle to the left, which has a flat, leaded roof, a door, and a pointed window on the south elevation, as well as a pointed window on the left return. The west (side) elevation features two bipartite windows.

The building has 10-pane sash and case windows in each light, a grey slate piended roof with over-hanging eaves, a rooflight on the east side, and polygonal paired sandstone corniced and coped stacks that break the eaves at the wallhead on the side elevations.

Additionally, there is an outbuilding, which is a single-storey, square-plan wash-house made of cream sandstone rubble. It has two doors on the south elevation and a window on the west elevation. The outbuilding features a grey slate roof with a ridge vent and a corniced stack at the northeast corner.