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Whitburn, 5-7 East Main Street, Town Hall
Town Hall (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Whitburn, 5-7 East Main Street, Town Hall
Classification Town Hall (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Burgh Hall
Canmore ID 275462
Site Number NS96NW 58
NGR NS 94673 65032
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/275462
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Whitburn
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
Burgh Hall, c.1830
Smart civic building with good ashlar, stringcourse and quoined pilasters, extended to the east, transformed by new windows and a giant baroque entrance, and diminished by a wall-head gable with its dinky, slate-hung, ogee-roofed clock-tower. To its west is a sturdy 1813 house with wall-head gables and dated scrolled skewputts. Isolated Victorian villas in West Main Street, interspersed with some sedate and well-built cottages - particularly No 46 Ramsay Place. The 1969 harled towers of Millbank, Gordon Duncan Somerville, have been given pitched stepped-back roofs. Fire Station, 1972, by Walker & Cunningham, sits like an overscaled harled cottage, with a deep fascia of the oversailing roof to its appliance shed like a Chinaman's hat.
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
