Red Lion Inn, 50 High Street, Linlithgow is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971. Inn. 1 related planning application.

Red Lion Inn, 50 High Street, Linlithgow

WRENN ID
forbidden-gateway-clover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1971
Type
Inn
Address
Red Lion Inn, 50 High Street, Linlithgow, EH49 7AE
OS grid reference
NT 003 771
Coordinates
55.97686, -3.59793
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Red Lion Inn, located at 50 High Street in Linlithgow, is a mid-18th century building featuring three storeys and two bays, with licensed premises on the ground floor. The south elevation is rendered and designed to resemble ashlar stonework, with raised margins and a lintel course above the second-floor windows.

The entrance elevation includes a pilastered doorpiece and an enlarged window to the right. The first and second floors have regular fenestration, showcasing 12-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring ashlar coped skews and rendered stacks at the gables.

Local climate

Red Lion Inn, 50 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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