The Torphicen Arms Hotel, Bank Street, Mid Calder is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Hotel. 5 related planning applications.

The Torphicen Arms Hotel, Bank Street, Mid Calder

WRENN ID
tilted-spandrel-torch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Hotel
Address
The Torphicen Arms Hotel, Bank Street, Mid Calder, EH53 0AR
OS grid reference
NT 075 675
Coordinates
55.89261, -3.47984
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Torphicen Arms Hotel, located on Bank Street in Mid Calder, dates from the later 18th century. This traditional building has two storeys and is harled with a skew-gabled design. It features a slated roof and includes a later addition of a one-storey bay window. At the rear, there is a two-way fore-stair.

Local climate

The Torphicen Arms Hotel, Bank Street, Mid Calder 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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