- Conservation Area
- West Linton
- Conservation Area Statement
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West Linton Conservation Area includes a considerable part of the historic settlement and the tree-lined approach along Station Road.
The village was originally known simply as Linton but the post office that opened in the settlement was called West Linton to distinguish it from the other Linton, now East Linton in East Lothian.
The villages then promptly assumed the names of their post offices.
The narrow winding streets and paths that run through the village provide a distinctive spatial identity.
Raemartin Square especially forms a break out space along the narrow Main Street. Both the Upper and the Lower Green offer a significant amount of green open space along the Lyne Water of which glimpses can be seen from the Main Street.
Properties tend to be one and a half, to two storeys in height. Some gable-fronted properties can be found such as the bank on the Main Street.
Larger detached and semi-detached properties can be found to the periphery of the Conservation Area and often have cast-iron railings along their boundary.
While traditional building materials prevail within the Conservation Area such as sandstone, harling, slate and even lime-wash (though now painted over) so too do many of the architectural details – sash and case windows, timber doors, margins and rybats, and transom lights.
Other details that are also common are exposed rafter feet, stone boundary walls and corner protectors.
It is intended that any alterations or new development within the Conservation Area should have regard to these elements and so its character.
There are nine listed properties in the amended West Linton Conservation Area and includes the category ‘A’ Gifford Stones House. - Designation, adoption and boundary information
- Alterations to the West Linton Conservation Area boundary from that shown in the Tweeddale Local Plan (1996) consist of the exclusion of The Paddock and Inverlyne along Dolphinton Road, the Primary School as well as a number of properties to the north-east of the Conservation Area. Other exclusions from the boundary are 3 and 4 Roderick Place, Lindenlea on Station Road, 1-4 Howieson Place, properties on Bogsbank Road - Inglewood, Ravendean, Castle Bank Cottage, Castle bank, Struan, Belnahua, Speldhurst, and 20 Fergusson View. General tidying of the boundary is also proposed so that it follows elements on the ground.
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