Former Linlithgow Sheriff Court
By respected architects Thomas Brown and James Maitland Wardrop (Edinburgh), 1862-3; further additions by Wardrop and Reid (Edinburgh), 1875. A 2-storey, gabled Tudor Revival former court house. The High Street elevation shown is asymmetrical with an advanced double gabled entrance bay. Squared, stugged and snecked sandstone rubble with polished surrounds with moulded base and string courses that continue to hoodmoulds over the ground floor openings and an eaves parapet. Single, bipartite and tripartite windows. Doorpiece with stepped hoodmoulds. Contrasting quoins to all openings. The building has corbelled and polygonal stone chimney stacks and decorative gable finials.
The former Linlithgow Sheriff Court is a significant example of mid 19th century civic architecture in the centre of this historic burgh town. Designed by the prolific court architects Brown and Wardrop it has a wealth of good quality stonework details to exterior.
The court house stands partly on the historic site of Archbishop Hamilton’s former house from where, on 23rd January 1570, the Regent Moray was shot by James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh: the memorial plaque to Regent Murray with a relief bust by Mrs D O Hill was inserted to the right of the main entrance door in 1875.
Currently operating as Court Residence, a part of the Aparthotel chain.
Former Linlithgow Sheriff Court
By respected architects Thomas Brown and James Maitland Wardrop (Edinburgh), 1862-3; further additions by Wardrop and Reid (Edinburgh), 1875. A 2-storey, gabled Tudor Revival former court house. The High Street elevation shown is asymmetrical with an advanced double gabled entrance bay. Squared, stugged and snecked sandstone rubble with polished surrounds with moulded base and string courses that continue to hoodmoulds over the ground floor openings and an eaves parapet. Single, bipartite and tripartite windows. Doorpiece with stepped hoodmoulds. Contrasting quoins to all openings. The building has corbelled and polygonal stone chimney stacks and decorative gable finials.
The former Linlithgow Sheriff Court is a significant example of mid 19th century civic architecture in the centre of this historic burgh town. Designed by the prolific court architects Brown and Wardrop it has a wealth of good quality stonework details to exterior.
The court house stands partly on the historic site of Archbishop Hamilton’s former house from where, on 23rd January 1570, the Regent Moray was shot by James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh: the memorial plaque to Regent Murray with a relief bust by Mrs D O Hill was inserted to the right of the main entrance door in 1875.
Currently operating as Court Residence, a part of the Aparthotel chain.