Description

Earlier 18th century. Single-storey and attic asymmetrical house (composed of 2 properties combined) slightly taller block to left (E). Cream sandstone rubble.

N (ENTANTCE) ELEVATION): 6 asymmetrical bays; lower 4-bay block to right with deep-set door off-centre left, 2 windows to right with segmental-headed archway (now blocked as window with multi-pane fixed glazing) to outer right. 2 windows breaking eaves above in gabled dormer-heads. Taller block to left with 2 windows at ground.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: lop-sided gable with 1 window at 1st floor.

12-pane sash and case windows. Pantiled roof, principal skews crowstepped, beak skewputts, ashlar coped skews to dormerheaded windows, sandstone coped stacks to gables.

Statement of Interest

Illustrated in LINLITHGOW IN PICTURES with adjoining mid 17th century house with forestair, demolished by town council in 1930. No 293 was once the address of George Hay Dick, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer, who published Dick's Monthly Advertiser, a local newspaper that flourished for a few years in the mid 19th century.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17851727

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)