| Code | NA21 |
| Place Entry | Alderstone House/Livingston |
| Notes | "Alderston House, a laird's house, apparently dates from the early 17th century, with a long wing of later construction. However, closer inspection shows that there has been a free-standing 16th century tower incorporated at the N end, where the walling is twice as thick as elsewhere. The early composite structure is 3-storyed, oblong on plan with roughcast walls. The entrance, now reached through a modern vestibule, is near the S re-entrant; over the doorway is the date 1626. The later additions to the E appear to have been erected in the 18th century, in a similar style to the original, though with larger windows, and without crow-stepped gables. Henry Kinloch in Alderstown had a charter in 1556. He would no doubt have built the original tower. The 1626 rebuilding was done by his grandson, Patrick Kinloch. Since then the house has had many different owners."
"Old crowstepped Scots mansion, its west wing a decapitated early 16th-century tower (ground-floor vault, but turnpike stair removed); extended twice in the 17th century with more palatial apartments; then reception rooms on the ground floor and a two-storey bay added in the 19th. Fine crowstepped lectern doocot. Steading glazed over to form an airy garden court. Conversion to company headquarters proposed by Simpson and Brown, 2006, to include a sensitive re-exposure of the older elements combined with a radically modern extension. Meanwhile, bland office pavilions in the former gardens crowd the setting of the building and continue the theme of adjacent streets."
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/49080/details/alderston+house/ [accessed 28 May 2013]
"West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008 |
| Place Name | Alderstone House |
| Area1 | Livingston |
| Notes | "Alderston House, a laird's house, apparently dates from the early 17th century, with a long wing of later construction. However, closer inspection shows that there has been a free-standing 16th century tower incorporated at the N end, where the walling is twice as thick as elsewhere. The early composite structure is 3-storyed, oblong on plan with roughcast walls. The entrance, now reached through a modern vestibule, is near the S re-entrant; over the doorway is the date 1626. The later additions to the E appear to have been erected in the 18th century, in a similar style to the original, though with larger windows, and without crow-stepped gables. Henry Kinloch in Alderstown had a charter in 1556. He would no doubt have built the original tower. The 1626 rebuilding was done by his grandson, Patrick Kinloch. Since then the house has had many different owners."
"Old crowstepped Scots mansion, its west wing a decapitated early 16th-century tower (ground-floor vault, but turnpike stair removed); extended twice in the 17th century with more palatial apartments; then reception rooms on the ground floor and a two-storey bay added in the 19th. Fine crowstepped lectern doocot. Steading glazed over to form an airy garden court. Conversion to company headquarters proposed by Simpson and Brown, 2006, to include a sensitive re-exposure of the older elements combined with a radically modern extension. Meanwhile, bland office pavilions in the former gardens crowd the setting of the building and continue the theme of adjacent streets."
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/49080/details/alderston+house/ [accessed 28 May 2013]
"West Lothian: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Stuart Eydmann, Richard Jaques and Charles McKean, 2008 |
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