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Bo'ness, Braehead And The Knowe Area Of Townscape Character

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Site Name Bo'ness, Braehead And The Knowe Area Of Townscape Character

Classification Town Quarter (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 312669

Site Number NS98SE 214

NGR NS 99608 81273

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Street view showing 21-25 Panbrae Road, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.
Street view showing 21-25 Panbrae Road, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.View of the steeple of Craigmailen United Free Church, Braehead, and former Manse at 12 Braehead, Bo'ness, taken from the North-East. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view showing the East end of Stewart Avenue, Bo'ness, taken from the South-East. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view showing the South side of Dundas Street, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West, with 8-12 Dundas Street in the foreground. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.View from Grange Terrace, Bo'ness, across Grangepans towards the Firth of Forth, taken from the South. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view showing 5-9 Cadzow Crescent, Bo'ness, taken from the South-East. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view showing terraced housing at 2-8 Linlithgow Road, Bo'ness, taken from the South-West. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view showing terraced housing at 5-19 Panbrae Road, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West. This row of housing enjoys views across the First of Forth, over Corbiehall. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.View of Bo'ness Old Kirk, Panbrae Road, Corbiehall, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view showing terraced housing at 4-10 Grange Terrace, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West, with detached and semi-detached housing beyond. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.General oblique aerial view of Grange School, Grange Loan, Bo'ness, taken from S.View of 15 and 17 Dundas Street, Bo'ness, taken from the South. The Firth of Forth can be seen in the background. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view showing the South side of Cadzow Crescent, Bo'ness, taken from the N1orth-East, with numbers 10-14 in the foreground. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.View of villa at Blenheim, 25 Panbrae Road, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Image showing the junction of Panbrae Road and Elam Terrace, Bo'ness, taken from the West. No 33 Panbrae Road is in the foreground and Bo'ness Old Kirk in the background. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.View of Craigmailen United Free Church, Braehead, Bo'ness, taken from the North-East. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.View of St Andrew's Parish Church, Grange Terrace, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West. 44 Grange Terrace is also visible in the right of the shot. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.General oblique aerial view of Grange School, Grange Loan, Bo'ness, taken from NE.View of 15 and 17 Dundas Street, Bo'ness, taken from the South-West. The Firth of Forth can be seen in the background. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.General oblique aerial view of Grange Loan, Bo'ness, taken from SW.Street view showing 7-11 Cadzow Crescent, Bo'ness, taken from the South-East. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view showing the North side of Cadzow Crescent, Bo'ness, taken from the West, with No 5 in the foreground. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view showing 42-44 Grange Terrace and St Andrew's Parish Church, Bo'ness, from the North-West. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view showing 60-64 Grange Terrace, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.General oblique aerial view of Grahamsdyke Avenue and Grange Loan, taken from SSW.Image of the steeple of Craigmailen United Free Church, Braehead, Bo'ness, taken from the South-East. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.View of Craigmailen United Free Church, Braehead, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view of Grange Terrace, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West. Nos 30 and 32 are in the foreground with St Andrews Parish Church in the background. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.General oblique aerial view of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character, Bo'ness, taken from west.View of large villas at 7 and 9 Linlithgow Road, Bo'ness, taken from the North-East. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.View of Bo'ness Old Kirk, Panbrae Road, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West. 31 Panbrae Road is also visible to the right of the shot. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view of Panbrae Road, Bo'ness, taken from the West showing Bo'Ness Old Kirk and 31-33 Panbrae Road. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.View of terraced housing at 16-24 Braehead, Bo'ness, taken from the North-West. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.Street view showing 76-86 Stewart Avenue, Bo'ness, taken from the North-East. This photograph was taken as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey to illustrate the character of Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Falkirk
  • Parish Bo'ness And Carriden
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Falkirk
  • Former County West Lothian

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Characterisation (18 November 2013)

Bo'ness Urban Survey

This site covers the Braehead and The Knowe Area of Townscape Character which was defined as part of the Bo'ness Urban Survey Project 2013. The text below relates to the whole area.

Historical Development and Topography

Braehead and the Knowe area is a narrow strip on the top of the bluff or hill above and to the south of the town centre stretching east along from the length of Grange Terrace and Braehead. It ends with Corbiehall and the cemetery at the western extremity. The location affords spectacular views over the town and the Forth valley.

This area was developed in the later 19th century with a series of villas and churches. The villas of Grange Terrace, in a mixture of styles, mostly built of stone under slate roofs set within large gardens characterise the earliest phase of the development of this area. A larger example of one of these villas is the Knowe, Erngarth Road, of 1879, which was extended by Matthew Steele (1878-1937) between 1907 and 1912. Another example of this Edwardian phase of development is the Arts and Crafts style Tidings Hill, which lies further west in Cadzow Crescent, designed by Alexander Hunter Crawford (1865-1945) in 1908.

Four of Bo’ness’s six churches are located in this area. The Gothic Craigmailen United Free Church on Braehead is the earliest of the four, dating from 1883 to designs by architects by John McKissack (c.1844-1915) & William Gardner Rowan (1846-1924). Its tall tower, topped by a crown spire, is a prominent landmark on the Bo’ness skyline. The Old Kirk on Panbrae Road was designed by Robert Thornton Shiells (1833-1902) & James M Thomson (c.1850-c.1922) in 1885, also in Gothic style, with a large four-stage tower and spire. St Andrew’s Parish Church of 1905 by John Nichol Scott (1863-1920) & Alexander Lorne Campbell lies to the east on Grange Terrace, and its narrow green copper spire on a three-stage square battlemented tower is similarly dominant. The single-storeyed St Catherine’s Episcopal Church designed in 1921 by John More Dick Peddie (1853-1921) & William James Walker Todd (1884-1944) is in keeping with the interwar harled bungalows surrounding it in Cadzow Crescent.

The street pattern in the area is characterised by a wide open arrangement of villas set in large gardens. Braehead and Grange Terrace are further characterised by only being developed on the south side embracing the views over the river to the north. There are large areas of green open space in this area, with Victoria Park on the north side of Grange Terrace and the large cemetery to the west of the area. This openness is enhanced with Braehead overlooking Glebe Park and the Town Hall which lie within the School Brae Area of Townscape Character). Overall the area is uniformly low density with a variety of plot sizes some of which are very large.

Present Character

The area has changed little since it was developed in the later 19th century and early to mid-20th century. It remains almost totally residential, though some of the larger villas have been sub-divided. Mostly stone-built, these villas have retained much of their Victorian or Edwardian characteristics, including large bay windows affording views across the river, as well as retaining the large garden plots.

Still a mainly residential area, Braehead and The Knowe has retained associated facilities for its resident population, including the four churches (Craigmailen United Free Church, the Old Kirk, St Andrew’s Parish Church and St Catherine’s Episcopal Church), Grange School on Grange Loan (1906), green space in Victoria Park, bowling green and the cemetery. Many other facilities lie just outwith the area such as the hospital in Dean Road (Newtoun Area of Townscape Character), with the main town centre being easily accessible.

There has been little infilling within this area since the initial development in the late 19th and early 20th century. A small pocket of infill dating from the 1920s is Cadzow Crescent, which consists of single-storeyed bungalows, in a style typical of the period.

Information from RCAHMS (LK), 18th November 2013

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