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Event ID 566839
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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UPHALL
The two communities of Uphall and Broxburn are distinct, linked only casually by inter-war housing. The Brox Burn (from which the neighbourhood takes its name - a haunt of badgers) crosses to the south side of the great road initially, in a deep wooded glen. The older and smarter houses lie south, whereas industry and poorer houses lay north. Many quiet and frequently charming culs-de-sac.
West Main Street enters uphill from the west and a long straggle of single-storey fermtoun cottages line the south side of the street, c.1800. Nos 33 & 35 form two colour-washed semi-detached villas with Doric pilasters. The Stables (to Dovehill House, No 33), down in the woods by the burn, is a delightful conversion in part-rubble part-harl by Brian Curry, a huge circular window in its gable. Millhouse, down by Miller's Bridge, also by the burn side, has been domesticated; harled and pantiled and turned into a house. Nos 55a & 55b, 1984, are by Richard Jaques. Note particularly the half-timbered and boarded No 41, said to be a former pavilion, possibly from the Edinburgh International Exhibition of 1886.
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
