Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566376
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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FAULDHOUSE
High moor-edge former mining community, with substantial ashlar cottages in Main Street. St Andrew's Kirk, Main Street, 1866, by Angus Kennedy, is buttressed Gothic with traceried window and elegant door. St John the Baptist, 1873, by W & R Ingram, is plainer - a simple broad-shouldered chapel with corbelled belfry and good stained glass by Hardman, E M Dinkel, 1856, and J Blyth, 1951-6. Substantial villas in Crofthead. The Caledonia Hotel, 1895, appropriately brash for a former station hotel, has oriel windows and a lofty pedimented door. What Fauldhouse requires is concentration - a town centre, with higher density for greater focus with a new role in upland recreation.
Many good cottages, most single-storey, in Sheephousehill, including a delightful one with a central pediment with trefoil window. Crofthead Primary School, c.1900, a huge, three-storey pile with crowstepped gables, stringcourses, roundels and finials, dominates. Now an old people's home.
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
