70-72 High Street, Linlithgow is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 December 1978. Tenement. 1 related planning application.

70-72 High Street, Linlithgow

WRENN ID
endless-ashlar-amber
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 December 1978
Type
Tenement
Address
70-72 High Street, Linlithgow, EH49 7AQ
OS grid reference
NT 003 771
Coordinates
55.97694, -3.59866
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

70-72 High Street in Linlithgow is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey and attic, four-bay tenement that features a shop on the ground floor and a pend. The building is constructed of stugged ashlar that has been painted. It has moulded architraved windows and includes a base course and an eaves course.

On the south elevation, the entrance to the shop is located in the first bay to the right, with two large display windows in the center and the entrance to the pend in the first bay to the left. The first floor has a regular arrangement of windows.

The windows are plate glass sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and features two canted piended slate-hung dormers. The building has ashlar coped skews and mutual stacks at the gables.

Local climate

70-72 High Street, 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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