Fauldhouse, General
Town (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Fauldhouse, General
Classification Town (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 74431
Site Number NS96SW 50
NGR NS 93620 60765
NGR Description Centred on NS 93620 60765
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council West Lothian
- Parish Whitburn
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
FAULDHOUSE
High moor-edge former mining community, with substantial ashlar cottages in Main Street. St Andrew's Kirk, Main Street, 1866, by Angus Kennedy, is buttressed Gothic with traceried window and elegant door. St John the Baptist, 1873, by W & R Ingram, is plainer - a simple broad-shouldered chapel with corbelled belfry and good stained glass by Hardman, E M Dinkel, 1856, and J Blyth, 1951-6. Substantial villas in Crofthead. The Caledonia Hotel, 1895, appropriately brash for a former station hotel, has oriel windows and a lofty pedimented door. What Fauldhouse requires is concentration - a town centre, with higher density for greater focus with a new role in upland recreation.
Many good cottages, most single-storey, in Sheephousehill, including a delightful one with a central pediment with trefoil window. Crofthead Primary School, c.1900, a huge, three-storey pile with crowstepped gables, stringcourses, roundels and finials, dominates. Now an old people's home.
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
