Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566420
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/566420
STONEYBURN
Unfettered by urban design, with a few sporadic monuments. Small, cream-rendered former? Church of Scotland is unusually pretty; buttressed gable to the street with a heavy Arts & Crafts belfry. Nearby Stoneyburn House has a long pedigree proven by datestones of 1655, 1670, 1678, 1713 and 1759. Stoneyburn Primary School, 1986, Lothian Regional Council Architects, is a nucleus of flat-roofed, brown-brick hexagons with horizontal glazing Bents, 1919, is an early development of 138 homes in a fit country for heroes to live in built by United Collieries; likewise Garden City, built by the West Lothian Housing Society.
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
