1 Kirkgate, Linlithgow is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971.

1 Kirkgate, Linlithgow

WRENN ID
solemn-stair-hawthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1971
OS grid reference
NT 001 772
Coordinates
55.97745, -3.601
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2 Kirkgate in Linlithgow is a house dating from around 1700. It is a low, two-storey building with a single storey over a basement, situated on sloping ground. The house is constructed from cream sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features raised painted margins around the windows.

The entrance elevation has seven asymmetrical bays, with alterations and enlargements to the openings. To the left, there is a taller gabled block, while to the right, a lower four-bay gabled wing sits on higher ground. The block on the left has a window positioned off-centre to the right, a deep-set door to the outer right, and a lower door to the left, both of which have boarded doors with glazed panels at the top. There is also a first-floor window off-centre to the left, along with traces of blocked windows to the right and left. The lower wing on the right features a low blocked door to the outer left, with two widely spaced windows in the centre on the first floor, and bipartite windows to the outer right and left, also showing traces of blocked windows.

The rear elevation is asymmetrical and rendered, with a door located at the far left. The house has sash and case windows, mostly with two panes in the lower sashes and multi-pane in the upper sashes. The roof is covered with grey slate, featuring ashlar coped skews and rendered apex stacks at the gables, which also have crowstepped gables.

Local climate

1 Kirkgate, 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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