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Recording Your Heritage Online

Event ID 565820

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Recording Your Heritage Online

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565820

Chalmers Buildings, 2-14 Main Street, 1907, Sir Robert Lorimer

Good example of Lorimer's cottage style, for papermill workers, in white harl and swept slate roofs. Prow-shaped dormers are slate-clad and hung - with the usual diamond motif. Gables hipped and eyebrow-eaved. The Public Hall (community centre), across the road, is also by Lorimer in 1907: a harled rectangle, the sides consist of four huge windows with ogee-roofs rising into the roof, punctuated by battered buttresses. The gable to the street has a lunette window rising above the entrance porch.

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

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