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Linlithgow Bridge, Main Street, Chalmers Hall
Hall (20th Century) (1907)
Site Name Linlithgow Bridge, Main Street, Chalmers Hall
Classification Hall (20th Century) (1907)
Alternative Name(s) Community Centre; Public Hall; Village Hall
Canmore ID 198411
Site Number NS97NE 189
NGR NS 98603 77058
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/198411
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Linlithgow
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
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
