Linnhous is a Grade A listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Mansion.
Linnhous
- WRENN ID
- frozen-moat-jay
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Type
- Mansion
- OS grid reference
- NT 062 629
- Coordinates
- 55.85071, -3.49925
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Linnhous is a building dated 1589, featuring two square towers that are attached at one corner. It traditionally has three storeys and a garret, constructed from rubble with a corbie-step gabled roof. The building includes a slated roof with a corbelled turret located in the northeast re-entrant angle, topped with a conical stone roof and a ball finial, along with lucarnes and a crenellated platform behind. Above the old entrance, which has been converted into a window, is a lintel inscribed with '1589 NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA'. An L-planned addition was made to the east of the south tower around 1690, designed in a similar style and forming three sides of a yard. Inside, there is a vaulted basement in the north tower, a fine scale-and-platt stair in the addition, and several good rooms throughout the building.
Local climate
Linnhous sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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