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Baron's Hill, Bell's Burn, Linlithgow

A Category B Listed Building in Linlithgow, West Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9787 / 55°58'43"N

Longitude: -3.5924 / 3°35'32"W

OS Eastings: 300730

OS Northings: 677335

OS Grid: NT007773

Mapcode National: GBR 1S.W8X6

Mapcode Global: WH5R2.SZJJ

Plus Code: 9C7RXCH5+F2

Entry Name: Baron's Hill, Bell's Burn, Linlithgow

Listing Name: Bell's Burn, Baron's Hill

Listing Date: 16 March 1992

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 382431

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37356

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Linlithgow, Bell's Burn, Baron's Hill

ID on this website: 200382431

Location: Linlithgow

County: West Lothian

Town: Linlithgow

Electoral Ward: Linlithgow

Traditional County: West Lothian

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Description

W Scott 1913. 2-storey, 5-bay rectangular-plan with single storey service wing, Scottish Arts and Crafts style house. Harled with sotne dressings. Corbelled string at 1st floor, eaves course, bipartite and tripartite windows, stone curvilinear dormerhead windows, deep eaves.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5-bay; centre 3-bay with doorcase to right, stone surruond, 2-leaf wooden doors, raised moulded panel over with lion rampant, dentilled cill to dormerheaded window over. Bipartite window to left of dooir, window far left. Dormerheaded windows to each bay above. Advanced gabled bay to outer right, bow at ground with 3 windows, cill course, deep blocking course, shield motif to centre, tripartite window to 1st floor, thistle finial. Circular corner tower to outer left, 3 windows at ground and 1st floor, cill and eaves courses, corbelled string course, bellcast roof with overhanging eaves.

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: window at ground to right, bipartite window at 1st floor to left, chimney wall advanced and on a diagonal line across gable wall, stack at wallhead.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay; 2 single lights to centre and off-centre to right, bipartite window to far right; tripartite stair window to centre, tripartite window to right, single light to left. Tall stack to left with advanced chimney wall, off-set to right. Piended roof to outer bays, canted dormer over centre bay.

S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay, advanced squared single storey inglenook bay, piended roof, advanced off-set chimney wall, tall stack. Canted single storey window to right, tripartire window over.

Plate glass sash and case windows, stained glass to stair and inglenook windows. Grey/green slate roof, tall harled stacks. Ashlar apex detail to gabled bays and bold beak skewputts.

SERVICE WING:

N ELEVATION: 5-bay, windows to 4-bays to right, larger window 2nd bay from right, door to outer bay to left.

E ELEVATION: bipartite window.

S ELEVATION: 5-bay, door to outer left and 2nd bay from right.

Piended slate roof, harled stack, rooflights off-centre right and left.

INTERIOR: timber stair (half-turn with landings); original timber chimneypieces with overmantel, inglenook recess with overmantel flanked by small windows with stained glass panels.

Statement of Interest

A severe design evidently evolved from the school of Lorimer but without his softening craftsmanship.

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