Abbey National, 62-64 High Street, Linlithgow is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1992. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.
Abbey National, 62-64 High Street, Linlithgow
- WRENN ID
- stranded-wall-candle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1992
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- Abbey National, 62-64 High Street, Linlithgow, EH49 7AQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 003 771
- Coordinates
- 55.97691, -3.5983
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Abbey National building at 62-64 High Street in Linlithgow is a three-storey Scottish Baronial tenement constructed in 1881. It features an asymmetrical design with a crow-stepped gable and a corbelled square turret that includes a dovecot on the right side. The ground floor houses a shop and a carriage pend. The exterior is made of snecked sandstone bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings on the south elevation. There is a string course above the ground floor and a continuous cill course at the first and second floors, with the stops of both courses overlapping the downpipe.
On the south (entrance) elevation, the central entrance is flanked by the carriage pend to the left and a large display window. The first floor has a bipartite window to the left and a segmental-headed window to the right, both with hollow chamfered surrounds and a fluted mullion for the bipartite window. The second floor features two windows with moulded architraves. The gable apex is topped with a ball finial and a date stone reading '1881'. The corner tower includes an arrow-loop and a piended slate roof with flight holes, topped by a weathervane. There is a tall stack at the wallhead to the left.
The building has plate glass lower windows and two-pane upper sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate. It is flanked by lower buildings, and the side walls rise to a coped parapet. The original square rainwater goods are still in place.
Local climate
Abbey National, 62-64 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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