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This doocot started life as an engine house in the mid 18th century. It stands in Kinningars Park, Bo'ness (also known as Dovecote Park) and is of the common lectern type, built of random rubble and patched with brick. It formerly possessed crow-steps, but is now roofless and partially ruinous. The structure is pierced by a large round archway on the ground floor and a round-arched door in its W end, reflecting the fact that the lower half had been constructed to house a pumping engine (now gone) for the nearby mine shaft. The upper part was later converted into a doocot and still possesses some 415 brick boxes. In 1760 it housed the "North Fire Engine" for pumping water out of the pits on the Grange Estate. Only the fourth steam engine to be erected in the Falkirk district, it is one of the earliest surviving in Scotland. By c1820 the coal to the south was practically exhausted, and so the Cadell family started mining under the Forth from new pits located on the foreshore known as "moat pits". Consequently the old engine house was decommissioned, but not demolished. With the building of Old Grange House by the Cadell family it found a new lease of life as a doocot . The doocot for the Older Grange House being further W in the vicinity of Doocot Brae. It is this combination of use as an engine house and a pigeon house which makes the monument of great interest; reflecting the industrial and social history of the area.

Sites and Monument Record: Kinningars Doocot (SMR 33)

Romanesque, hall church with two eastern clasping towers. Stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings. Central round-headed door under projecting pointed gable, hood-mould with mask label stops. Tripartite window above with deeply splayed reveals and raised central light. Oculus in shallow gable. Gable-head cross. Square towers of 3 stages with pyramidal stone spires and finials. Lower stage with deeply splayed door reveals to north and south, small windows to east. Set backs to second and third stages. Clasping buttresses and tall windows in second, louvred openings recessed in rectangular panels to third. Block corbel table. 5 bay hall with 4 tall windows divided by buttresses. All windows latticed with glazed margins. Slate roof.

Sites and Monument Record: Polmont North Church (SMR 258)

Two storey dwelling of random rubble with squared dressings to the quoins and window margins. The roof is covered with modern pantiles. The stone is local sandstone, which is relatively soft and would have been rendered in the past. The original west gable had a window or door void on the ground floor towards the back, which has now been blocked up. The plain skew is relatively modern and the chimney stack has been rebuilt in the 20th century. The disposition of the fenestration on the south and north facades appears to reflect the original, except that there was a window over the door on the south. All of the present stone margins are replacements, the two ground floor windows on the south facade being the most recent. The east end of the long row of buildings, of which this formed a part, was replaced by a taller two-storey building in the late 19th century. Where is joins on the north facade it did so at a ground floor doorway, and an additional set of quoins was added. Above this the quoins may be original and the new building rests on them. The new building extends further south than the original block and there are no quoins on the south side. There are indications that the building may have started as a single storey structure. Late 18th century. 2-storeys, 3 bays. Rubble built with squared dressings. Forestair to upper floor with modern hand rail. Modern glazing. Pantiled roof.

Sites and Monument Record: Corbiehall, 101-103 (SMR 312)

Early 18th century 2 storey building with many later modifications. It presents 4 bays to Scotland's Close and 2 to the N in the gable end. The N gable of this building still retains roll moulded skewputs. Rubble built with rendered margins.There is a datestone with initials "17FMG MR11" over a first storey door on the E side, approached by a forestair with a modern handrail. Pilastered doorpiece with flanking windows in gable end. 2 windows above with cillband, moulded eaves course, straight skews. Pantiled roof with slate easing course. End stacks. S gable elevation has remnants of an early-mid 18th century chimney piece from a demolished house to the S. Some panelling remains on the 1st floor together with a chimney piece and ceiling plasterwork which is a copy of the original in the front room. Now converted to library use.

Sites and Monument Record: West Pier Tavern (Bo'ness Library) (SMR 365)

2 storey and attic corner building. Rock-faced sandstone, ground floor with coursed rubble above polished ashlar dressings. Ground floor now painted with contrasting dressings. Angle door with turret corbelled out above, 3 lights in 1st floor, attic window with gabled head rising into conical, fishscale slated roof with finial. 5 asymmetrical bays to N, 1 wide bay to E. N elevation with 1 door to Anchor Tavern and shop front to 2 W bays, a variety of window openings and stepped string course below gabled attic windows. Crowstepped gables with apex stacks flank angle. Slate roof.

Sites and Monument Record: North Street, 42,44,46 (Anchor Tavern) (SMR 362)

Sites and Monument Record: Myot Hill Hillfort (SMR 391)

P00195 Weir St, Falkirk Post 1900 A C Brown

Sites and Monument Record: Quarter House (SMR 410)

Sites and Monument Record: Braes House (SMR 411)

Sites and Monument Record: Falkirk Steeple (Falkirk Tolbooth) (SMR 433)

Sites and Monument Record: Castle Rankine (SMR 476)

P01712 View towards Grangemouth 1960-1978 Alexander Gentles Fyfe

P00049 Main St, Bonnybridge, at night Circa 1900 Bonnybridge Photographic Society Unknown

Sites and Monument Record: Manuel Brickworks (SMR 628)

P01622 Grangemouth Refinery 1960-1978 Alexander Gentles Fyfe

Sites and Monument Record: Polmont House (SMR 915)

P01182 Falkirk High Street, east end Circa 1900 Unknown

Sites and Monument Record: Blackness Castle Pier (SMR 1256)

Sites and Monument Record: Regent House (SMR 1265)

Sites and Monument Record: Douglas Hotel (SMR 1266)