Friarbank, Manse Road, Linlithgow

Friarbank, located on Manse Road in Linlithgow, is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey house with a symmetrical rectangular plan and three bays. The building is constructed of cream sandstone rubble, with ashlar stone on the north (entrance) elevation and ashlar dressings, featuring base and eaves courses and raised margins.

The north elevation showcases a central pilastered doorpiece that includes a frieze, cornice, and blocking course, leading to an eight-panelled fanlit door framed by a moulded architrave. The fenestration is regular on both the ground and first floors.

On the west side elevation, there is a single-storey porch made of snecked sandstone rubble. The south (rear) elevation has three bays, with a blocked door located off-centre to the right, a window on the far right, a small window to the left, and another window on the far left. There is a stair window in the centre, with additional windows to the left and right on the first floor. The east side elevation features one window at ground level to the left.

The house has twelve-lying-pane sash and case windows, a grey slate piended roof with a rooflight at the rear, and harled end stacks with moulded cans. There are outhouses at the rear on both the right and left, constructed of rubble with a grey slate roof, ashlar coped skews, and an apex stone.

The property is further enhanced by gates, gatepiers, and boundary walls, which include rusticated gatepiers with a frieze, cornice, and cap, topped with arrow and spearhead two-leaf cast and wrought-iron gates. The boundary wall is made of rubble.