Holmes Cottages

Parish:

Uphall, Linlithgowshire

Local authority:

West Lothian

Ownership:

Holmes Oil Co. Ltd.

Opened:

Presumably built c.1884

Closed:

Still extant

Current status of site:

Modernised and in good condition; eastern cottage perhaps rebuilt

Two semi-detached cottages, each with two rooms, built close to Holmes Oil Works. Much of the workforce of the oil works were housed in Holmes Rows. This detailed plan (see below), dated 1963, from the BP Archive, shows the layout of Holmes Cottages.

Location map

Detailed maps

Holmes Cottages - 25" OS map c.1897, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Holmes Cottages - 25" OS map c.1916, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Holmes Cottages - 1:2,500 OS map c.1955, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Holmes Cottages - Aerial, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Archive plans

Plan of ground feued to Holmes Oil Company Ltd for workman's housing. 1900. (BP archive 143390)

Detailed Plan

Plan of Holmes cottages, 1963.

Recent images

Holmes cottages, 23 ‎July ‎2011

Related file records

143265 - Disposition - 1 Holmes Cottages, Uphall. - Disposition by the Broxburn Oil Company Ltd in favour of James Dawson; Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974 concerning 1 Holmes Cottages, Uphall. Dated 3rd April 1963. Type written. Includes 2 copies of plan showing property boundaries. Scale 1" to 40'. Also receipt for Redemption of feuduty for 1 Holmes Cottages, dated 9th May 1975.
143266 - Disposition - 2 Holmes Cottages - Disposition by the Broxburn Oil Company Ltd, with consent of Francis McDonough, in favour of Dunfermline Building Society, concerning 2 Holmes Cottages, Uphall; Dated 11th July 1963. Type written. Includes plan showing property boundaries. Scale 1" to 40'. Also various solicitors correspondence with regards to feuduty payments dated November 1974.
143267 - Disposition - No.s 3 and 4 Holmes Cottages, Uphall. - Disposition by the Broxburn Oil Company Ltd in favour of Stewart Wilson concerning nos 3 and 4 Holmes Cottages, Uphall. Dated 10th March 1955. Type written. Includes plan showing property boundaries. Scale 1" to 40'; Also includes feuduty payments, dated 1974. (Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974). Also solictors corrspondence concerning feuduty payments, dated 1st March 1979.