Architectural Drawing - Addition of Bathrooms and Dormer Windows, Main Street, Livingston Station
code: LVSAV1996.024.006
Description
Hand coloured architectural drawing of addition of bathrooms and dormer windows to worker's housing in Main Street, Livingston Station (64 houses), dated 14/03/1938.
The approval stamp of the sanitary inspector is dated 31/4/38. The work involved fitting a bath, WC and wash hand basin within the scullery in place of a WC and wash boiler, and installing dormer windows in the attic room in place of a roof light .
One of a series of 47 architectural drawings, plans and prints, some coloured on linen, of Pumpherston Oil Company Ltd. dwellings at Livingston Station. Originally from Scottish Oils, Middleton Hall.
The village of Livingston Station was constructed during the first decade of the 20th century by the Pumpherston Oil Company Ltd to house staff employed at Deans Oil Works and associated mines. Passed to Livingston Development Corporation when the Deans area was being integrated into the new town.