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Latitude: 55.8888 / 55°53'19"N
Longitude: -3.6188 / 3°37'7"W
OS Eastings: 298848
OS Northings: 667369
OS Grid: NS988673
Mapcode National: GBR 305B.BW
Mapcode Global: WH5RN.C7ZX
Plus Code: 9C7RV9QJ+GF
Entry Name: Easter Inch Farmsteading Cottage, Blackburn Road, Bathgate
Listing Name: Easter Inch Farmhouse and Steading
Listing Date: 12 February 1996
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338409
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6713
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Bathgate, Blackburn Road, Easter Inch Farmsteading Cottage
ID on this website: 200338409
Location: Bathgate
County: West Lothian
Electoral Ward: Bathgate
Parish: Bathgate
Traditional County: West Lothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure Cottage
1869 with later alterations and additions. U-plan steading with courtyard partly enclosed to E by wall, with farmhouse incorporated in N range by 3-stage Baronial tower and pend. Rubble, random and squared with ashlar dressings.
N RANGE: OUTER ELEVATION: regular masonry, symmetrical 2-storey, 7-bay residential centrepiece, flanked to outer right by gabled end
of W range. Pointed-arched pend entrance in advanced gabled bay at centre with moulded surround and stylised capitals to supporting columns, 3 windows in gablehead above; 3 bays flanking each side (farmhouse to E, cottages to W), each with door at centre flanked by windows at ground and 1st floor with gabled dormerheads. Single storey wing of farmhouse to outer left with slightly advanced outer gable.
COURTYARD ELEVATION: with flat-arch to pend and engaged, square-section TOWER flanking to left comprised of lower stage with rounded arrises, corbelled to square above pend with window and breaking eaves in towerhead adorned with corbel table, dropping as apron below wallhead window and with swept pyramidal roof, finialled. Flanked bays irregular including 2-storey gabled later addition to left and gabled dormerhead to 1st floor window to right; single storey cottage to outer right with modern porch addition and picture window.
W RANGE: cartshed and granary at centre with 2 wide segmental carriage arches flanked to right by narrower arch to court, door to
penultimate right and later flat-arch by re-entrant angle; blank at ground to rear with small ventilation grilles to byre and square opening under eaves to hayloft, flanking gabled hayloft dormer. Gabled return to N with 2 windows at ground (1 blinded) and single gablehead window.
Narrow, 8-pane, timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Plain barge boards. Coping band to stone stacks.
ENCLOSING WALL: tall rubble wall.
Architect-designed, unfussy farm court, with distinguishing tower and pend.
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