Criminal Justice Office, 89-91 High Street, Linlithgow

The Criminal Justice Office at 89-91 High Street in Linlithgow is a building designed by Wardrop, Anderson and Btowne in 1886, with alterations to the west elevation made by Dick Peddie and Walker Todd around 1936. This three-storey, two-bay office building features a square plan with an M-gable front and a long two-storey wing at the rear. It is constructed from cream snecked sandstone, with coursed stone on the north elevation and polished ashlar dressings throughout. The design includes a base course, bipartite and tripartite windows with bracketed cills, stop-chamfered reveals, ashlar mullions, and lugged architraves. The gables are crowstepped, with gablets on the north and east elevations.

On the north (entrance) elevation, there are three symmetrical bays at ground level, featuring a central tripartite window and two tall doorpieces in the outer bays, each with lugged architraves, gabletted keystones, and panelled two-leaf doors. Each bay is set within a slightly advanced ashlar panel that has an interrupted band course midway, supporting a continuous corniced ashlar window guard with a pierced circle and lozenge pattern above. The first floor has two tripartite windows with a patera above the centre light, while the second floor has two bipartite windows. The gablehead features carved panels with rose and thistle motifs, a string course at the apex, pendant decoration at the centre, and finialled gables.

The east (side) elevation has a narrow window at ground level and a taller bay off-centre to the left, which has a crowstepped gable and two stacks at the apex linked by a corbelled parapet with a gargoyle at the centre.

The south (rear) elevation consists of three asymmetrical bays, with an advanced bay on the outer left that has a crowstepped and chimneyed gable, along with a two-storey wing projecting at right angles.

The west (side) elevation features two asymmetrical bays, with two narrow windows at ground level and two wider windows at the first floor set in an advanced panel with curved angles. Above the first floor windows is a corbelled parapet with a flat stepped panel at the centre. The tall recessed crowstepped gablehead has a pedimented window to the right, which displays the monogram 'BLB' in the tympanum. There is an advanced broad chimney wall with a stack breaking the wallhead off-centre to the left and a smaller stack breaking the wallhead to the right.

The interior of the building has been modernised.