Linlithgow, 5 Union Road

Union Road

Car-squeezingly narrow, wedged between the long back rigs of the High Street, and the embankment wall of the railway, bounded to the north by what remains of Linlithgow's Town Wall, some of its 17th-century doorways entombed within. Principally small houses and cottages; blue-painted No 5 has pretty porch and dormers with octagonal chimneypots. The confluence of stone walls where Union Road hits the head of Lion Well Wynd is a townscape treat. Good new houses constructed in several rigs include The Spires, a group of three houses entered from Dog Well Wynd; No 8, which used stone from a demolished Edinburgh school, No 11, 2005, by The Pollock Hammond Partnership in vernacular style, and the crisp No 3d, 2004, by Chris Kelly slotted neatly between Victorian buildings.

Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk