Society House, Hopetoun House is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971.

Society House, Hopetoun House

WRENN ID
tenth-cupola-sepia
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1971
OS grid reference
NT 097 790
Coordinates
55.99589, -3.44861
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Society House is an 18th-century, two-story house built on an L-shaped plan. It originally functioned as an inn. The house is harled and has a Corbie-step gabled slate roof. Dormers are visible above the upper-story windows. A circular tower, capped with a conical roof, projects from a prominent corner of the building.

Local climate

Society House, Hopetoun House receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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