Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565669
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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West Port House, 1600
L-plan, three-storey town house of James Hamilton of Silvertonhill. If the date is correct, gun-loops, etc. are anachronistic. Its geometry is diminished by being robbed of its coat of harl. Plainly elegant, like a miniature Houstoun House with swept dormers and crowsteps on a steeply sloping roof; it is enlivened by a corbelled rectangular stair rising from the first floor in the angle to the rear. Once the road in front was lowered in the 18th century, the house gained an added elevation, towering over its diminutive neighbour to the east, Beinn Castle House, 293 High Street, restored and owned by architect Thom Pollock; early 18th-century stone cottage with crowsteps and pantile roof. New traditional houses in garden to south by William A Cadell.
Taken from "West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
