Livingston Village, 3 Main Street
House (18th Century), Schoolhouse (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Livingston Village, 3 Main Street
Classification House (18th Century), Schoolhouse (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) 1 Main Street; The Old School House; The Danders
Canmore ID 232033
Site Number NT06NW 49
NGR NT 03764 66867
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/232033
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Livingston
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
Livingston Village
Livingston's origins lie at Livingston Peel whose foundations have been re-created at the end of a long and ingenious boardwalk by Folly Burn within Peel Park. The village retains much small-scale charm. Manse, 1803 (it looks later), is a handsome L-shaped block, entrance in the angle, likewise stripped of the harling implied by its window and corner margins. Pleasant cottages face the Main Street. Long white two-storey 18th-century row, The Danders, frames the village green. Bloom House, c.1850, good plain and stolid L-plan, has rounded corners and dormer windows. Bloom Farm converted to craft workshops but now offices, c.1994, The Percy Thomas Partnership. White-harled Livingston Inn, a former coaching inn on the Edinburgh/Glasgow turnpike, has a pantiled stable courtyard somewhat adapted.
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