1 Kingscavil Cottages, Edinburgh Road, Linlithgow

A group of six single-storey and attic cottage-orn cottages with a single-storey schoolhouse, likely designed by Campbell Walker and built in 1873. The buildings are situated on Edinburgh Road, in Linlithgow, and are associated with RHJ Stewart of Champfleurie House. They were originally recorded in the 1873 valuation roll, with each cottage rented at £4 per annum and the school operated by the School Board of the Parish of Linlithgow.

The cottages are a symmetrical terrace constructed from cream sandstone cyclopean rubble, with rock-faced bands forming cill and lintel courses. Ashlar dressings are used on the principal elevations, while the rear elevation is of snecked rubble. They feature stop-chamfered reveals and stone mullions. The cottages have tripartite windows at ground level, and bipartite windows above on the north, east, and west elevations. Squared basket-arched doorways have boarded doors with decorative wrought-iron hinges. A steep-gabled roof is covered with grey slates, incorporating fishscale bands, with deeply overhanging eaves and bargeboard. Tall, coped rock-faced stacks are a prominent feature.

The north (entrance) elevation has four recessed bays with attic dormers, and two advanced, M-gabled bays to the left and right, each with a door and a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite attic window. Gabled return elevations on either side have a stone-canopied door flanked by narrow windows, with a bipartite window to the attic. A projecting single-storey service wing extends to the south. The rear (south) elevation has a central bay with two doors, flanked by projecting service wings. Further bays feature two doors each, with service wings extending outwards. Modern dormers and slates have been added to the rear. Diamond-pane leaded glazing is used in the casement windows.

The schoolhouse, to the west, has a three-bay entrance elevation with a door set within a timber gabled porch, flanked by tripartite windows. The side elevations are gabled, with a tripartite window featuring cusped lights under a steep relieving arch, divided by a stone transom into a lower sash and case and a blind upper section. A gabled projection with a tall stack is present on the rear elevation, along with a more recent flat-roofed, harled extension. Plate glass sash and case windows are used in the schoolhouse, along with leaded fleche on the roof centre, and modern rooflights on the east elevation. The front roof was re-slated circa 1990 using salvaged slates from the rear. An application for refurbishment of two vacant cottages was submitted in late 1991.