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Standing Building Recording
Date November 2001
Event ID 841517
Category Recording
Type Standing Building Recording
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/841517
NT07NW 77.02 00391 77155
NT 004 771 As part of an ongoing programme of conservation, a survey was undertaken in November 2001 of a bread oven that stands detached in the backlands of 46 High Street, Linlithgow. It is purported to be of 16th-century date, but this is only through association with the Hamilton Buildings of which No 46 is one (NT 07 NW 77).
The structure of the oven clearly incorporates stone reused from other buildings, but whether these relate to the original structure or later repairs is open to debate. The two large corbels either side of the entrance may have been reused, and are likely to have supported some type of superstructure over the oven door.
It would seem unlikely that the oven was originally under cover, but by the time of the first detailed map of the area in 1820 it was clearly within one of a number of outbuildings in the backlands behind No 46. By the 1950s, the surrounding buildings had been demolished but the oven survived. It has clearly been pointed and refurbished on a number of occasions and is basically in a sound condition.
Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.
Sponsor: NTS.
S Stronach 2002