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Linlithgow, Blackness Road, Linlithgow Academy

School (20th Century) (1900)

Site Name Linlithgow, Blackness Road, Linlithgow Academy

Classification School (20th Century) (1900)

Alternative Name(s) Old Academy; Low Port Primary School

Canmore ID 211381

Site Number NT07NW 147

NGR NT 00471 77307

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council West Lothian
  • Parish Linlithgow
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District West Lothian
  • Former County West Lothian

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Low Port Primary School (formerly Linlithgow Academy), 1900, J G Fairley

Accomplished sandstone primary school in Scots Renaissance: aggrandised cottage with circular, turreted towers à la Falkland to signal boys' and girls' porches. Plain stone, timber and slate extension to rear, 2002, by RMJM.

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

Archaeology Notes

NT07NW 147 00471 77307

NT 005 774 A watching brief was conducted between September 2001 and February 2002 on all groundbreaking works during the construction of an extension to Lowport Primary School (built 1897). Made ground to the N of the school appeared to be at least as old as the school building but maybe older. A small assemblage of medieval/late medieval pottery was retrieved from these landscaping deposits. To the S of the school the made ground deposits were modern. No features of archaeological significance or in situ artefacts were uncovered. (AOC 3486)

Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.

Sponsor: Morrison Construction Ltd.

L Dunbar 2002

Architecture Notes

NT07NW 147 00471 77307

Architect: J Graham Fairley, 1900.

Activities

Photographic Survey (13 July 2001)

Watching Brief (September 2001 - February 2002)

NT 005 774 A watching brief was conducted between September 2001 and February 2002 on all groundbreaking works during the construction of an extension to Lowport Primary School (built 1897). Made ground to the N of the school appeared to be at least as old as the school building but maybe older. A small assemblage of medieval/late medieval pottery was retrieved from these landscaping deposits. To the S of the school the made ground deposits were modern. No features of archaeological significance or in situ artefacts were uncovered. (AOC 3486)

Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.

Sponsor: Morrison Construction Ltd.

L Dunbar 2002

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