A modest 1803 manse completes the historic kirk group and records the domestic setting of parish ministry.
Quick facts
- Date
- 1803
- Architect / designer
- Designer not recorded
- Type
- Traditional two-storey former manse with rear offices
- Designation
- Listed building, Category B (LB7410)
- OS grid reference
- NT 03741 66874
Architecture and continuing use
The two-storey rubble house is gabled beneath a slated roof. A projecting gabled bay gives the front a simple centre, while a single-storey lean-to and gabled offices at the rear preserve the practical service arrangement of the manse.
Its story
The manse was constructed in 1803 beside Livingston Parish Kirk. It housed the ministerial household within the old village before the scale and centre of Livingston shifted with twentieth-century new-town development. Its continued survival maintains the spatial relationship between church and residence.
Why it is included
The building makes the parish kirk legible as an institutional group rather than an isolated monument.
What to notice
- The small projecting gable on the principal front.
- Traditional rubble walling and slated roof.
- Rear service ranges showing how the house functioned.
Reading the surroundings
This is treated as a private residence. View only from lawful public space and do not enter its garden, drive or rear offices.
Timeline
- 1803 The traditional rubble manse was built beside the parish kirk.
- 20th century New-town growth changed Livingston’s scale while the kirk group survived.
- 5 February 1971 The manse entered the statutory list at Category B.
What we know — and what remains uncertain
No architect is recorded and the present internal arrangement and occupation have not been independently checked.
Sources & further reading
- Historic Environment Scotland: Livingston Manse, LB7410 — Current designation status, official mapped location, date, fabric and significance.
- West Lothian Council: conservation areas — Current local-authority identification of Livingston Village Conservation Area and the planning protection of its character.
- Trove: Livingston Parish Kirk — National heritage inventory, mapped location, archive images and historical references for the village kirk.
- Church of Scotland: Livingston Old ministry profile — Current Church of Scotland evidence that Livingston Old worships in the eighteenth-century village kirk and serves the community.
Location
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