Kirknewton Station is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 October 1994. Station house.

Kirknewton Station

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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 October 1994
Type
Station house
OS grid reference
NT 104 671
Coordinates
55.88905, -3.43364
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kirknewton Station was built in 1848 for the Caledonian Railway. It is a two-storey building with a modified L plan, constructed from coursed rubble. The roof features crow-stepped gables made of slate, with ogee skewputs. The windows have double-chamfered reveals.

On the platform elevation, the gable of the main range includes a tripartite window on the ground floor with four-paned sash windows, and a single window at the attic level topped with a ball finial. There is a set-back wing styled similarly, which has an L-plan chimney stack at the angle. At the rear, there is a domestic range set back, featuring a chimney stack on the gable side that has upper courses that are corbelled out with a moulded cope. Between the wing, main range, and domestic range, there is a single-storey wooden shelter with a glazed upper section and lean-to roofs.

The west elevation is single-storey and includes a doorway, a single window, and a bipartite window, all with details matching those on the platform front. There is a central semi-dormer with a bipartite window and a crow-stepped gablet, and to the left of the dormer is a chimney stack with corbelled upper courses and a moulded cope.

On the east elevation, the full gable of the wing has a single window at attic level. A small section of the main range is set back to the left, while the gable of the domestic range is set forward to the right, featuring single and bipartite windows on the ground floor, along with a chimney stack that is integral with the gable.

The rear elevation has a port that is heightened and flat-roofed. The gable of the main range includes two windows at attic level and a later external stair above the door.

Local climate

Kirknewton Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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