Bathgate Academy, Marjoribanks Street, Bathgate is a Grade A listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. Academy. 2 related planning applications.
Bathgate Academy, Marjoribanks Street, Bathgate
- WRENN ID
- kindled-bailey-vetch
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1971
- Type
- Academy
- OS grid reference
- NS 979 686
- Coordinates
- 55.90053, -3.63372
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bathgate Academy, located on Marjoribanks Street in Bathgate, was built between 1831 and 1833 by architects R and R Dickson from Edinburgh. This building showcases a Greek Revival style with Doric ashlar detailing.
The central block features a distyle in antis design, with a clock tower above that is flanked by horizontal consoles and topped by an open belfry. Behind the clock tower is a piended slated roof. The central block is connected to two pedimented and pilastered pavilions by loggias, which have balustraded parapets and platform roofs. At either end of the building are low offices. In front, there is a very broad flight of steps leading up to the entrance.
At the rear of the pavilions, there are additions that are designed in a similar style, maintaining the overall architectural coherence of the academy.
Local climate
Bathgate Academy, Marjoribanks Street, Bathgate sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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