Overshiel House is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. 1 related planning application.
Overshiel House
- WRENN ID
- swift-plaster-yarrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Address
- Overshiel House, EH53 0HT
- OS grid reference
- NT 099 688
- Coordinates
- 55.90417, -3.44124
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Overshiel House is an earlier 19th-century Georgian building, originally known as Overshiel Farm-House. It is two storeys high and constructed of ashlar stone. The roof is piended and slate-covered. A prominent architrave-cornice feature is present at the doorway, supported by engaged columns. At each end of the main house are attached, piended, single-storey offices.
Local climate
Overshiel House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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