261-263 High Street, Linlithgow is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1992. Tenement. 1 related planning application.
261-263 High Street, Linlithgow
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-forge-thunder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1992
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 261-263 High Street, Linlithgow, EH49 7EP
- OS grid reference
- NS 997 770
- Coordinates
- 55.97585, -3.60781
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
261-263 High Street in Linlithgow is an early 19th-century, two-storey and attic tenement building featuring three bays, a pend, and piended dormers. The northern elevation is constructed of painted rubble and includes base and eaves courses with painted margins.
The northern entrance elevation has a central six-panelled, fanlit door, flanked by an enlarged window on the right and a standard window on the left. To the outer right, there is a pend with an iron gate. The first floor features three windows.
On the southern rear elevation, there is a two-storey projection that includes a spiral stair. The building has plate glass windows at ground level and 12-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slate and features ashlar coped skews, harled coped stacks at the gables, and slate-hung dormers that are rounded at the angles.
Local climate
261-263 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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