13-14 The Cross, Linlithgow is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1992. Tenement. 4 related planning applications.
13-14 The Cross, Linlithgow
- WRENN ID
- fossil-storey-larch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1992
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 13-14 The Cross, Linlithgow, EH49 7AH
- OS grid reference
- NT 002 771
- Coordinates
- 55.9772, -3.60009
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
13-14 The Cross in Linlithgow is a later 19th-century, three-storey and attic tenement building with five bays, arranged in a 2-1-2 pattern, featuring two shops at ground level. The structure is made of cream snecked sandstone rubble, which is squared and coursed on the west elevation. It has a base, string course, and eaves course, with segmental-headed windows and stop-chamfered reveals.
The west entrance elevation includes a pend at the center with a fanlit door, and a deep-set shop door to the right, accompanied by a large window on the outer right, mirrored on the left side. There are five windows on the first and second floors. At the center, there is a nepus gable featuring a narrow pointed window and a coped sandstone stack, while slate-hung gabled dormers on the right and left have bipartite lights and bargeboarded gables with finials.
The east rear elevation consists of three bays, with a projecting rectangular stair block that has a piended roof at the center. The building features sash and case windows, with six-pane glazing on the first floor, plate glass on the lower sashes, and two-pane glazing on the second floor windows. The dormers have modern glazing, while the east elevation has 12-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and includes skewputts and crowstepped gables with rendered coped stacks. The original cast-iron rainwater goods include hopper heads adorned with grotesque dragons, similar to those found at 114 High Street.
Local climate
13-14 The Cross, Linlithgow sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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