Post Office, 29-31 High Street, Linlithgow is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1992. Post office. 6 related planning applications.
Post Office, 29-31 High Street, Linlithgow
- WRENN ID
- odd-banister-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1992
- Type
- Post office
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
W W Robertson, 1903. Single storey, 5-bay Scots Renaissance style post office. Cream sandstone ashlar. Chamfered reveals, transomed windows to S elevation, corbelled eaves course extending as string course stepped over window to gabled bay to outer left, roll-moulded architraved doorpieces.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: window to taller advanced crow-stepped gabled bay to outer left, doorpiece on return to right, 4-panelled door. Recessed 4 bays to right; 3 transomed dormerheaded windows breaking eaves to left, each with round-headed open pediments cradling finials, pediment to centre dated 1904; doorway to outer right, 2-leaf panelled doors, 'Post Office' carved in ashlar panel over, balustrated parapet above interrupted by dormerheaded windows, corbelled angle turret with armorial crest to SE.
E ELEVATION: crowstepped gabled bay with mullioned and transomed window to centre.
9-pane sash and case windows above transomes; 2-pane to lower sashes, now mostly blocked. Green slate roof.
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