Union Canal Museum, Manse Road, Linlithgow is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1992. Museum and tearoom.
Union Canal Museum, Manse Road, Linlithgow
- WRENN ID
- inner-cobalt-yew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1992
- Type
- Museum and tearoom
- Address
- Union Canal Museum, Manse Road, Linlithgow, EH49 6AJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 003 769
- Coordinates
- 55.97488, -3.5983
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Union Canal Museum, located on Manse Road in Linlithgow, is a building designed by engineer Hugh Baird around 1820. It is a single-storey structure with a rectangular plan, featuring six bays. Originally, the building served as two stables at the west end and a cottage at the east end, but it has since been converted into the Union Canal Museum and a tearoom. The exterior is made of snecked cream squared rubble sandstone and is positioned against the garden wall of the nearby villa, Rockville, to the south, while it overlooks the Canal Basin to the north.
The stables have segmental arched openings, with timber doors and timber shutters on the windows. The building features small pane timber glazing in sash and case windows. The roof is mono-pitched, covered with grey slates, and has ashlar coped skews along with a single rendered stack.
Local climate
Union Canal Museum, Manse Road, 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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