This list includes the historic houses, castles, abbeys, museums and other buildings and monuments in the care of Historic Environment Scotland (HES). HES (Scottish Gaelic: Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba) is a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, responsible for investigating, caring for and promoting Scotland’s historic environment. It maintains over 300 properties, that together attract more than 3 million visitors annually.[1]
The list is grouped by Scottish council areas.
Aberdeen City
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| St Machar's Cathedral Transepts | The ruined transepts of St Machar's Cathedral. |
Aberdeenshire
editAngus
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Aberlemno Sculptured Stones | Range of Pictish sculptured stones depicting a hunting scene, battle scene and an army of men. | |
| Arbroath Abbey | Arbroath Abbey is famous for its association with the Declaration of Arbroath. | |
| Ardestie Earth House | A curved underground gallery. | |
| Brechin Cathedral Round Tower | One of the two remaining round towers of the Irish type in Scotland. | |
| Carlungie Earth House | A complex underground structure of Iron Age date. | |
| Caterthuns | Two large hill forts. | |
| Eassie Sculptured Stone | An elaborately sculptured Pictish cross-slab. | |
| Edzell Castle | Ruined 16th-century castle with an early-17th-century walled garden. | |
| Lindsay Burial Aisle | Remains of the 14th-century Edzell Old Church. | |
| Maison Dieu Chapel, Brechin | Part of the south wall of a chapel, belonging to a medieval hospital founded in the 1260s. | |
| Restenneth Priory | A monastic house of Augustinian canons founded in 1153. | |
| St Orland's Stone | A tall, Pictish cross-slab with a prominent, ornate cross. | |
| St Vigeans Sculptured Stones | A collection of over 30 Pictish carved stones. | |
| Tealing Dovecot | A dovecot of the late 16th century. | |
| Tealing Earth House | An Iron Age earth house or souterrain. |
Argyll and Bute
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ardchattan Priory | The ruins of a Valliscaulian priory founded in 1230 and later converted to secular use. | |
| Bonawe Historic Iron Furnace | The most complete charcoal-fuelled ironworks in Britain, founded in 1753. | |
| Carnasserie Castle | Home of John Carswell, first Protestant Bishop of the Isles. | |
| Castle Sween | One of the earliest castles in Scotland. | |
| Dunstaffnage Castle and Chapel | Stronghold of the MacDougalls. | |
| Eileach an Naoimh | Ruins of Early Christian beehive cells, a chapel and a graveyard on a small island in the Firth of Lorne. | |
| St Cormac's Chapel, Eilean Mor | A chapel on a small island in the Sound of Jura. Site includes St Cormac's Cross and St Cormac's Cave. | |
| Inchkenneth Chapel | Medieval church. | |
| Iona Abbey | One of Scotland's most historic and sacred sites. | |
| Iona Nunnery | One of the best-preserved medieval nunnery churches in the British Isles. | |
| Keills Chapel | A small West Highland chapel housing a collection of 12th-century grave slabs. | |
| Kilberry Sculptured Stones | A collection of late-medieval sculptured stones gathered from the Kilberry estate. | |
| Kilchurn Castle | Four-storey tower built in the mid-15th century by Sir Colin Campbell. | |
| Kildalton Cross | The finest intact high cross in Scotland carved in the late 8th century. | |
| Kilmartin Glen: Achnabreck Cup And Ring Marks | The exposed crest of a rocky ridge with well-preserved cup and ring marks of early prehistoric date. | |
| Kilmartin Glen: Ballygowan Cup And Ring Marks | Cup and ring marks on natural rock faces, of early prehistoric date. | |
| Kilmartin Glen: Baluachraig Cup And Ring Marks | Several groups of early prehistoric cup and ring marks on natural rock faces. Close to Dunchraigaig cairn. | |
| Kilmartin Glen: Cairnbaan Cup And Ring Marks | Carved stone of the Bronze Age within Kilmartin Glen. | |
| Kilmartin Glen: Dunadd Fort | Well-preserved hill fort of Kilmartin Glen. | |
| Kilmartin Glen: Dunchraigaig Cairn | Bronze Age cairn within Kilmartin Glen. | |
| Kilmartin Glen: Glebe Cairn, Kilmartin | Early Bronze Age burial cairn. | |
| Kilmartin Glen: Kilmartin Sculptured Stones | Early-medieval and medieval crosses of Kilmartin Glen. | |
| Kilmartin Glen: Kilmichael Glassary Cup And Ring Marks | Early prehistoric cup and ring carvings of Kilmartin Glen. | |
| Nether Largie Cairns | A Neolithic and two Bronze Age cairns of Kilmartin Glen. | |
| Ri Cruin Cairn | Bronze Age burial cairn within Kilmartin Glen. | |
| Temple Wood Stone Circles | Standing stones of Kilmartin Glen dating to about 3000 BC. | |
| Kilmodan Sculptured Stones | A group of West Highland carved grave slabs exhibited in a burial aisle within Kilmodan churchyard. | |
| Kilmory Knap Chapel | A small medieval chapel with a collection of typical West Highland grave slabs and some early medieval sculpture. | |
| Maclean's Cross | A 15th-century free-standing cross. | |
| Rothesay Castle | Castle with a long and close association with the Stewart Kings of Scotland. | |
| Skipness Castle and Chapel | A 13th-century castle with a 16th-century tower house in one corner. | |
| St Blane's Church, Kingarth | A 12th-century Romanesque chapel. | |
| St Mary's Chapel, Rothesay | Late-medieval remains of the chancel of the Parish Church of St Mary. |
Ayrshire
editEast Ayrshire
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Loch Doon Castle | Castle containing an eleven-sided curtain wall of fine masonry. |
North Ayrshire
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Auchagallon Stone Circle | A Bronze Age kerb cairn. | |
| Carn Ban | One of the most famous of the Neolithic long cairns of south-west Scotland. | |
| Kilpatrick Dun | Ruins of a circular drystone homestead of unknown date. | |
| Kilwinning Abbey | Remains of a Tironensian-Benedictine abbey. | |
| Lochranza Castle | An L-plan tower house situated on a promontory on the Isle of Arran. | |
| Machrie Moor Stone Circles | Remains of six stone circles of Bronze Age date. | |
| Moss Farm Road Stone Circle | The remains of a Bronze Age cairn. | |
| Skelmorlie Aisle | Monument erected for Sir Robert Montgomerie of Skelmorlie. | |
| Torr a'Chaisteal | A circular Iron Age fort on a ridge. | |
| Torrylin Cairn | A Neolithic chambered cairn. |
South Ayrshire
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Crossraguel Abbey | Abbey founded early in the 13th century by the Earl of Carrick. | |
| Dundonald Castle | Castle built by Robert II in the 1370s to mark his succession to the throne of Scotland. | |
| Maybole Collegiate Church | College associated with St Mary Chapel. |
Clackmannanshire
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Castle Campbell | 15th-century fortress situated above Dollar Glen. | |
| Clackmannan Tower | A 14th-century keep. |
Dumfries and Galloway
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Barsalloch Fort | An Iron Age promontory fort, defended by a deep u-shaped ditch. | |
| Caerlaverock Castle | Castle with moat, twin towered gatehouse and imposing battlements. | |
| Cairn Holy Chambered Cairns | Two Neolithic burial cairns, of a type characteristic of Galloway. | |
| Cardoness Castle | A well-preserved six-storey tower house of the McCulloch dating back to the 15th century. | |
| Carsluith Castle | A well-preserved ruin of a tower house of 16th-century date. | |
| Chapel Finian | Remains of a small chapel built in the Irish style. | |
| Druchtag Motte | An example of a motte castle. | |
| Drumcoltran Tower | A well-preserved mid 16th-century tower. | |
| Drumtroddan Cup And Ring Marked Rocks | Three groups of well-defined cup and ring marks on bedrock probably carved in the Bronze Age. | |
| Drumtroddan standing stones | An alignment of three prehistoric stones. | |
| Dundrennan Abbey | Cistercian abbey built in the latter half of the 12th century. | |
| Glenluce Abbey | Abbey founded around 1192. | |
| Kirkmadrine Early Christian Stones | Three of the earliest Christian memorial stones in Britain. | |
| Laggangairn Standing Stones | Stones carved with early Christian crosses. | |
| Lincluden Collegiate Church | Remains of a collegiate church and the accommodation for its canons founded in 1389. | |
| Lochmaben Castle | A Z-plan tower house. | |
| MacLellan's Castle | Late 16th-century noble residence. | |
| Merkland Cross | A carved wayside cross of the 15th century. | |
| Morton Castle | A late-13th-century hall house, a stronghold of the Douglases. | |
| New Abbey Corn Mill | Fully restored water-powered corn mill. | |
| Orchardton Tower | Tower house of the mid-15th-century. | |
| Rispain Camp | Rectangular settlement defended by a bank and ditch. | |
| Ruthwell Cross | Anglian Cross dating from the end of the 7th century. | |
| St Ninian's Cave | Cave traditionally associated with St Ninian. | |
| St Ninian's Chapel | Restored ruins of a 13th-century chapel, probably used by pilgrims on their way to Whithorn. | |
| Sweetheart Abbey | Abbey founded by Lady Dervorgilla of Galloway in memory of her husband John Balliol. | |
| Threave Castle | A 14th-century tower built by Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway, on an island in the River Dee. | |
| Torhouse Stone Circle | A Bronze Age stone circle consisting of 19 boulders. | |
| Wanlockhead Beam Engine | An early-19th-century wooden water-balance pump for draining a lead mine. | |
| Whithorn Priory | Cradle of Christianity in Scotland. |
Dunbartonshire
editEast Dunbartonshire
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Antonine Wall: Bar Hill Fort | Highest fort on the Antonine Wall. | |
| Antonine Wall: Bearsden Bath House | Remains of a bath-house and latrine built in the 2nd century AD. |
West Dunbartonshire
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Dumbarton Castle | Dumbarton was the centre of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde from the 5th century until 1018. |
Dundee City
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Broughty Castle | Castle, built hastily, but perhaps unnecessarily. It figured in only two national emergencies over 450 years. | |
| Claypotts Castle | A 16th-century castle. |
Edinburgh, City of
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Corstorphine Dovecot | A large circular ‘beehive’ dovecot. | |
| Craigmillar Castle | A well-preserved medieval castle, with a tower house, courtyard and gardens. | |
| Eagle Rock, Cramond | A much-defaced carving on natural rock. | |
| Edinburgh Castle | World-famous castle which dominates the sky-line of the city of Edinburgh. | |
| Holyrood Abbey | The ruined nave of the 12th- and 13th-century abbey church, and a three-storey building on Abbey Strand from the late 15th or early 16th century. | |
| Holyrood Park | Historic landscape in the heart of the city, with dramatic crags and hills. | |
| St Triduana's Chapel, Restalrig Collegiate Church | Shrine of St Triduana, a Pictish saint. | |
| Trinity House | Home to a collection of maritime memorabilia. |
Falkirk
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Antonine Wall: Castlecary | The low earthworks of a fort. | |
| Antonine Wall: Rough Castle | Best-preserved length of rampart and ditch. | |
| Antonine Wall: Seabegs Wood | A stretch of rampart and ditch with the military way behind. | |
| Antonine Wall: Watling Lodge | A stretch of rampart and ditch. | |
| Blackness Castle | Castle built by one of Scotland's most powerful families, the Crichtons. | |
| Kinneil House | 15th-century tower remodelled by the Earl of Arran. | |
| Westquarter Dovecot | Rectangular dovecot with a heraldic panel dated 1647. |
Fife
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Aberdour Castle | Castle with a walled garden and terraces with a dovecot. | |
| Blackfriars Chapel | A vaulted side apse survives of this church of Dominican friars, which was built in about 1516. | |
| Culross Abbey | The remains of a Cistercian monastery founded in 1217. | |
| Dogton Stone | Once a free-standing cross probably of 9th-century date. | |
| Dunfermline Abbey | The Abbey Church is the last resting place of many Scottish kings and queens. | |
| Dunfermline Palace | Former Scottish royal palace. | |
| Inchcolm Abbey | Group of monastic buildings located on the island of Inchcolm in the Firth of Forth. | |
| Ravenscraig Castle | One of the earliest artillery forts in Scotland. | |
| Scotstarvit Tower | Renowned as the home of Sir John Scot. | |
| St Andrews Castle | The main residence of the bishops and archbishops of St Andrews. | |
| St Andrews Cathedral | Remains of medieval Scotland's largest and most magnificent church. | |
| St Bridget's Kirk | The shell of a medieval church. | |
| St Mary's Church, Kirkheugh | Earliest collegiate church in Scotland. | |
| West Port | One of the few surviving city gates in Scotland. |
Glasgow City
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Crookston Castle | Ruin of an unusual 15th-century castle. | |
| Glasgow Cathedral | Cathedral built on the site where St Mungo was thought to have been buried. |
Highland
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ardclach Bell Tower | A fortified bell tower built in 1655 on the hill above the parish church of Ardclach. | |
| Beauly Priory | The ruined church of a Valliscaulian priory, one of three founded in 1230. | |
| Bridge of Oich | Suspension bridge. | |
| Cairn o' Get | A horned and chambered burial cairn. | |
| Carn Liath | A typical Sutherland broch. | |
| Castle of Old Wick | The ruin of the best-preserved Norse castle in Scotland. | |
| Clava Cairns | A well-preserved Bronze Age cemetery. | |
| Cnoc Freiceadain Long Cairns | Two unexcavated long-horned burial cairns of Neolithic date. | |
| Corrimony Chambered Cairn | An excavated passage grave of probable Bronze Age date. | |
| Dun Beag | A fine example of a Hebridean broch. | |
| Dun Dornaigil | A well-preserved broch. | |
| Fort George | The mightiest artillery fortification in Britain. | |
| Fortrose Cathedral | Beautiful red sandstone cathedral. | |
| Glenelg Brochs: Dun Telve and Dun Troddan | Two broch towers. | |
| Grey Cairns of Camster | Two chambered burial cairns of Neolithic date. | |
| Hill O' Many Stanes | More than 22 rows of low slabs. | |
| Hilton of Cadboll Chapel | The foundations of a small rectangular chapel, with a reproduction of a Pictish stone nearby. | |
| Inverlochy Castle | One of Scotland's earliest stone castles. | |
| Knocknagael Boar Stone | A rough slab incised with the Pictish symbols, kept in the Highland Council offices, Inverness. | |
| Ruthven Barracks | An infantry barracks erected in 1719 following the Jacobite rising of 1715. | |
| St Mary's Chapel, Crosskirk | A simple dry-stone chapel. | |
| Urquhart Castle | Once one of Scotland's largest castles, on the banks of Loch Ness. |
Inverclyde
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Newark Castle | Firth of Clyde castle mainly associated with the notorious Patrick Maxwell. |
Lanarkshire
editNorth Lanarkshire
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Antonine Wall: Croy Hill | Part of the Antonine Wall - Rome's north-west frontier. | |
| Antonine Wall: Dullatur | Part of the Antonine Wall - Rome's north-west frontier. | |
| Antonine Wall: Westerwood to Castlecary | Part of the Antonine Wall - Rome's north-west frontier. |
South Lanarkshire
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Biggar Gasworks Museum | The only surviving town coal-gas works in Scotland. | |
| Bothwell Castle | Scotland's largest and finest 13th-century castle. Part of the original circular keep survives. | |
| Cadzow Castle | Ruined castle in the woods of Hamilton. | |
| Coulter Motte | A Norman castle mound. | |
| Craignethan Castle | An early artillery fortification with a residential tower. | |
| St Bride's Church, Douglas | Choir containing three canopied monuments to the Douglas family. |
Lothian
editEast Lothian
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chesters Hill Fort | One of the best-preserved Iron Age hill forts in Scotland. | |
| Dirleton Castle | Medieval fortified residence with garden. | |
| Doon Hill | A rare site of the Anglian occupation of southeast Scotland. | |
| Dunglass Collegiate Church | Church founded in 1450. | |
| Hailes Castle | A ruin incorporating a fortified manor of 13th-century date. | |
| Lauderdale Aisle, St Mary's Church | The former sacristy of the great 15th-century St Mary's Collegiate Church, Haddington. | |
| Ormiston Market Cross | Free-standing 15th-century cross. | |
| Preston Market Cross | The only surviving example of a market cross of its type on its original site. | |
| Seton Collegiate Church | Ecclesiastical kirk set in wooded surroundings. | |
| St Martin's Kirk, Haddington | Remains of a Romanesque church. | |
| Tantallon Castle | Seat of the Douglas Earls of Angus, one of the most powerful baronial families in Scotland. |
Midlothian
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Castlelaw Hill Fort | Iron Age hill fort. | |
| Crichton Castle | Residence of the Crichtons and later home to the Earls of Bothwell. |
West Lothian
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cairnpapple Hill | Burial site dating to 3,000 BC. | |
| Linlithgow Palace | The ruins of Linlithgow Palace set in a park beside a loch. | |
| Torphichen Preceptory | Tower and transepts of a church built by the Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. |
Moray
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Auchindoun Castle | Castle built about 1480 by Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Mar. | |
| Balvenie Castle | Ruined castle built in the 12th century by a branch of the powerful Comyn family. | |
| Burghead Well | A rock-cut well. | |
| Dallas Dhu Historic Distillery | Distillery built in 1898 to produce malt whisky for Glasgow firm Wright and Greig's popular ‘Roderick Dhu’ blend. | |
| Deskford Church | Small late medieval church. | |
| Duffus Castle | One of the finest examples of a motte and bailey castle in Scotland. | |
| Elgin Cathedral | Home to Scotland's finest octagonal chapter house. | |
| Elgin Cathedral: Bishop's House | Partially ruined 15th-century defensible L-plan town house, within the precincts of Elgin Cathedral. | |
| Elgin Cathedral: Pans Port | The only surviving medieval archway of Elgin Cathedral's precinct walls. | |
| Spynie Palace | Residence of the bishops of Moray. | |
| St Peter's Kirk and Parish Cross, Duffus | Remains of a 14th-century western tower and a 16th-century vaulted porch. | |
| Sueno's Stone | Pictish monument. |
Orkney Islands
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Barnhouse Settlement | Neolithic settlement. | |
| Bishop's Palace, Kirkwall | Palace built for the first bishop of Orkney. | |
| Blackhammer Chambered Cairn | Neolithic burial cairn. | |
| Broch of Gurness | Iron-Age broch and surrounding settlement. | |
| Brough of Birsay | Site featuring Pictish and Norse power-base with Pictish well. | |
| Cobbie Row's Castle | One of the earliest stone castles to survive in Scotland. Also known as Cubbie Roo's Castle. | |
| Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn | Neolithic chambered tomb. | |
| Dounby Click Mill | The last surviving horizontal water mill in Orkney. | |
| Dwarfie Stane | Neolithic burial chamber. | |
| Earl's Bu | Remains of a medieval Manor House. | |
| Earl's Palace, Birsay | 16th-century remains of the residence of Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney. | |
| Earl's Palace, Kirkwall | 17th-century palace built by Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney. | |
| Eynhallow Church | Ruined 12th-century monastic church. | |
| Grain Earth House | Iron Age earth house. | |
| Hackness Martello Tower and Battery | 19th century fort and battery on the island of South Walls. | |
| Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn | A massive tomb. | |
| Knap of Howar | Probably the oldest standing stone houses in north-west Europe. | |
| Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn | An oval cairn with concentric walls enclosing a Neolithic chambered tomb. | |
| Links of Noltland | Sand dunes seal and protect significant prehistoric remains. | |
| Maeshowe Chambered Cairn | The finest chambered tomb in north-west Europe. | |
| Midhowe Broch | A well-preserved broch, with remains of later buildings around it. | |
| Midhowe Chambered Cairn | A megalithic chambered tomb of Neolithic date. | |
| Noltland Castle | A ruined Z-plan tower, built between 1560 and 1573 but never completed. | |
| Orphir Round Church | Remains of early 12th-century round church next to Earl's Bu. | |
| Pierowall Church | Remains of 13-century church. | |
| Quoyness Chambered Cairn | A megalithic tomb containing a passage and main chamber, with six subsidiary cells. | |
| Rennibister Earth House | An Orkney earth house. | |
| Ring of Brodgar | A circle of upright stones with an enclosing ditch spanned by causeways, dating to late Neolithic period. | |
| Skara Brae | One of the best preserved groups of prehistoric houses in Western Europe, part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. | |
| St Magnus Church, Egilsay | Ruin of a 12th-century church, graveyard still in use. | |
| St. Mary's Chapel, Wyre | Ruin of a 12th-century chapel and graveyard. | |
| Stones of Stenness | The remains of a stone circle surrounded by remains of a circular earthen bank. | |
| Taversöe Tuick Chambered Cairn | Neolithic chambered cairn. | |
| Unstan Chambered Cairn | A mound covering a stone burial chamber divided by slabs into five compartments. | |
| Westside Church, Tuquoy | A small 12th-century nave-and-chancel church. | |
| Wideford Hill chambered cairn | A Neolithic chambered cairn with three concentric walls and a burial chamber with three large cells. |
Outer Hebrides
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Arnol Blackhouse | A traditional thatched house. | |
| Calanais Standing Stones | A cross-shaped setting of standing stones erected around 3000 BC. | |
| Dun Carloway | One of the best preserved broch towers in Scotland. | |
| Kisimul Castle | The only significant surviving medieval castle in the Western Isles. | |
| St Clement's Church, Rodel | 15th-century church built for the Chiefs of the MacLeods of Harris. | |
| Steinacleit Cairn and Stone Circle | The remains of an enigmatic burial site of early prehistoric date. |
Perth and Kinross
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Abernethy Round Tower | One of the two round towers of Irish style surviving in Scotland, dating from the end of the 11th century. | |
| Ardunie Roman Signal Station | The site of a Roman watch tower dating to the first century. | |
| Balvaird Castle | A late-15th-century tower on an L plan, extended in 1581 by the addition of a walled courtyard and gatehouse. | |
| Black Hill Roman Camps | Parts of the defences of two Roman marching camps lying to the north of Ardoch Roman Fort. | |
| Burleigh Castle | Complete ruin of a tower house of about 1500. | |
| Dunfallandy Stone | A well-preserved Pictish cross-slab. | |
| Dunkeld Cathedral | Cathedral containing a fine effigy of the Robert III's brother. | |
| Elcho Castle | Complete 16th-century fortified mansion. | |
| Fowlis Wester Sculptured Stone | A tall cross-slab with Pictish symbols. | |
| Huntingtower Castle | The House of Ruthven containing a fine painted ceiling. | |
| Innerpeffray Chapel | A rectangular collegiate church founded in 1508. | |
| Lochleven Castle | The setting for the most traumatic year in the life of Mary Queen of Scots. | |
| Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum | Museum housing a collection of carved stones dating from the late eighth to the late tenth centuries. | |
| Muir o' Fauld Roman Signal Station | The site of a 1st-century Roman watch tower on the Gask Ridge. | |
| Muthill Old Church and Tower | Ruins of an important medieval parish church. | |
| St Mary's Church, Grandtully | A 16th-century parish church. | |
| St Serf's Church, Dunning and Dupplin Cross | Picturesque parish church with Pictish cross. | |
| Stanley Mills | A unique complex of water-powered cotton mills situated on the River Tay. | |
| Sunnybrae Cottage | Possibly the oldest house in Pitlochry. | |
| Tullibardine Chapel | One of the most complete and unaltered small medieval churches in Scotland. |
Renfrewshire
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Barochan Cross | Free-standing early medieval cross. | |
| Castle Semple Collegiate Church | A late Gothic church. |
Scottish Borders
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Cross Kirk, Peebles | Remains of a Trinitarian Friary. | |
| Dere Street Roman Road, Soutra | Stretch of Roman road. | |
| Dryburgh Abbey | Medieval abbey ruins. | |
| Edin's Hall Broch | One of the few Iron Age brochs in lowland Scotland. | |
| Edrom Arch | Romanesque doorway in the graveyard of Edrom church. | |
| Foulden Tithe Barn | A two-storey barn used for storing payments made in grain to the parish church. | |
| Greenknowe Tower | Tower house built in 1581. | |
| Hermitage Castle | 13/14th-century castle. | |
| Jedburgh Abbey | Abbey, founded in 1138, which was a frequent target for invading border armies. | |
| Kelso Abbey | West end of the great abbey church of the Tironensians. | |
| Melrose Abbey | Ruined abbey on a grand scale with lavishly decorated masonry. | |
| Melrose Abbey: Commendator's House | 15th-century accommodations for the Abbey Commendator. | |
| Smailholm Tower | Well-preserved 15th-century rectangular tower. |
Shetland Islands
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Clickimin Broch | Iron Age broch tower. | |
| Fort Charlotte | A five-sided artillery fort with bastions projecting from each corner. | |
| Jarlshof | Ancient settlement containing remains dating from 2500 BC up to the 17th century AD. | |
| Mousa Broch | Well-preserved Iron Age broch tower. | |
| Muness Castle | A late-16th-century tower house. | |
| Ness of Burgi | A defensive stone-built blockhouse. | |
| Scalloway Castle | A castellated mansion. | |
| Stanydale Temple | A Neolithic hall. |
Stirling
edit| Name |
Image | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Argyll's Lodging | A near-complete example of a 17th-century townhouse. | |
| Cambuskenneth Abbey | Home to the tomb of James III and Queen Margaret and a display of medieval graveslabs and architectural fragments. | |
| Doune Castle | A late-14th-century courtyard castle built for the Regent Albany. | |
| Dunblane Cathedral | Medieval church. The lower part of the tower is Romanesque, but the larger part of the building is of the 13th century. | |
| Inchmahome Priory | Augustinian monastery dating from 1238 set on an island in the Lake of Menteith. | |
| King's Knot | Earthworks of a formal garden. | |
| Mar's Wark | Renaissance mansion built by the Earl of Mar. | |
| Stirling Castle | One of Scotland's grandest castles due to its imposing position and impressive architecture. | |
| Stirling Old Bridge | A bridge built in the 15th or early 16th century. |
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "About Historic Environment Scotland". Historic Environment Scotland.
External links
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