6 Kingscavil Cottages, Edinburgh Road, Linlithgow

A group of six single-storey and attic cottage-orn cottages with a single-storey schoolhouse, likely designed by Campbell Walker and built in 1873. The cottages and schoolhouse are situated on Edinburgh Road, Linlithgow, and were first recorded in the 1873 valuation roll. They were owned by RHJ Stewart of Champfleurie House, and the school was run by the Linlithgow Parish School Board.

The building is constructed of cream-coloured sandstone cyclopean rubble with rock-faced bands forming cill and lintel courses; ashlar dressings are on the principal elevations, while snecked rubble is used on the rear elevation. The cottages feature stop-chamfered reveals and stone mullions. The roofs are steep-gabled, covered in grey slates with fishscale bands, and have deeply overhanging eaves with bargeboards. Tall, coped rock-faced stacks are also present. The windows are tripartite on the ground floor, with bipartite windows above on the north, east and west elevations. Squared basket-arched doorways have boarded doors and decorative wrought-iron hinges.

The north (entrance) elevation has four recessed bays, with two doors and windows centrally, and two advanced, M-gabled bays to the right and left, each with a door and a ground floor tripartite window and a bipartite attic window. Gable returns on either side incorporate a canopied stone door with flanking narrow windows and a bipartite attic window. A projecting single-storey service wing is located to the south.

The south (rear) elevation presents a central bay with two doors, flanked by projecting service wings. To the right is a bay with two doors and a service wing, mirrored on the left, although this side includes unfortunate modern dormers and slate additions. Several rooflights are present, some modern, including two set lower to centre. Diamond-pane leaded glazing is used in the casement windows.

The schoolhouse, located to the west, has a three-bay entrance elevation with a door set within a timber gabled porch, flanked by tripartite windows. The north and south side elevations have gabled sections with a tripartite window featuring cusped lights under a relieving arch, with a lower half containing sash and case windows and an upper blind section divided by a stone transom. The rear (east) elevation has a gabled projection with a tall stack near the apex and a modern flat-roofed harled extension. Plate glass sash and case windows are used in the schoolhouse, and a leaded fleche sits at the centre of the roof, alongside three modern rooflights on the east elevation.

The front roof was re-slated around 1990 using salvaged pattern slates from the rear. In late 1991, an application was submitted for the refurbishment of two vacant cottages.