Free Church, Manse Road, Torphichen is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 June 1980. Church.
Free Church, Manse Road, Torphichen
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-gargoyle-torch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1980
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NS 966 722
- Coordinates
- 55.9325, -3.65644
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free Church on Manse Road in Torphichen was built in 1843 and is designed in the Norman Revival style. It features droved and stugged ashlar stonework with dressed facework. The roof is slated, and the building has latticed windows, which are round-headed at the front and linteled on the sides. A tower with a belfry projects from the front end of the church.
Local climate
Free Church, Manse Road, Torphichen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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