List of Historic Scotland properties
Formation | 1991 |
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Legal status | Executive Agency of Scottish Government |
Headquarters | Longmore House, Edinburgh |
Region served | Scotland |
Website | historic-scotland.gov.uk |
A List of Historic Scotland properties, containing links for any stately home, historic house, castle, abbey, museum or other property in the care of Historic Scotland. Historic Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba Aosmhor) is an executive agency of the Scottish Government, responsible for historic monuments in Scotland.
Aberdeen
Name |
Image | Notes |
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St Machar's Cathedral Transepts | The ruined transepts of St Machar's Cathedral |
Aberdeenshire
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Brandsbutt Symbol Stone | An early Pictish symbol stone | |
Corgarff Castle | Tower house surrounded by a star-shaped perimeter wall of 18th-century date. | |
Cullerlie Stone Circle | A circle of eight stones | |
Culsh Earth House | A well-preserved underground passage | |
Deer Abbey | Remains of a Cistercian monastery | |
Duff House | Early Georgian mansion designed by William Adam for the Earl of Fife. | |
Dyce Symbol Stones | Two Pictish stones, one with the older type of incised symbols | |
Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle | A recumbent stone circle about 4000 years old | |
Glenbuchat Castle | A Z-plan tower house | |
Huntly Castle | Ruined baronial residence | |
Invercauld Bridge | Old Bridge of Dee dating back to 1752, part of the military road built by engineer Major William Caulfield | |
Kildrummy Castle | 13th-century castle | |
Kinkell Church | Ruins of a 16th-century parish church | |
Kinnaird Head Castle Lighthouse And Museum | 16th-century castle altered in 1787 to take the first lighthouse built by the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses | |
Kinnaird Head Winetower | 16th-century tower | |
Knock Castle | 16th-century keep | |
Loanhead Stone Circle | The best known of a group of recumbent stone circles | |
Maiden Stone | Pictish cross slab of the 9th century AD | |
Memsie Cairn | A large stone-built cairn, possibly of Bronze Age date, but enlarged during field clearance during the last two centuries. | |
Peel Ring of Lumphanan | Site of a fortified residence | |
Picardy Symbol Stone | Pictish symbol stones | |
St Mary's Kirk, Auchindoir | Medieval parish church | |
Tarves Medieval Tomb | Altar tomb of William Forbes | |
Tolquhon Castle | Castle built by William Forbes, 7th Laird of Tolquhon, from 1584 to 1589 | |
Tomnaverie Stone Circle | A recumbent stone circle about 4000 years old |
Angus
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Aberlemno Sculptured Stones | Range of Pictish sculptured stones depicting a hunting scene, battle scene and an army of men | |
Affleck Castle | 15th century, L-shaped tower house | |
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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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: Maclean's Cross | A 15th-century free-standing cross | |
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. | |
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
East Ayrshire
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Loch Doon Castle | Castle containing an eleven-sided curtain wall of fine masonry | |
Rowallan Castle | Castle set in rolling Ayrshire parkland |
North Ayrshire
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Castle Campbell | 15th-century fortress situated above Dollar Glen | |
Clackmannan Tower | A 14th-century keep |
Dumfries and Galloway
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Barsalloch Fort | An Iron Age promontory fort, defended by a deep u-shaped ditch. | |
Big Balcraig | Cup and ring marked rocks. | |
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. | |
Castle of Park | 16th Century L-plan tower house | |
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 | |
Kirkconnel Churchyard | Ruined church and tombstones | |
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 | |
Monreith Cross | A 10th century carved stone cross | |
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 | |
Wren's Egg stone | Standing stone and bronze age cysts |
Dunbartonshire
East Dunbartonshire
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Dumbarton Castle | Dumbarton was the centre of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde from the 5th century until 1018. |
Dundee
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Broughty Castle | Castle, built hastily, but perhaps unnecessarily. It figured in only two national emergencies over 450 years. | |
Claypotts Castle | 16th-century castle |
Edinburgh
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Abbey Strand | Late 15th century abbey church | |
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 Palace | 16th century residence of Scottish royal family | |
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 (council area)
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Aberdour Castle | Castle with a walled garden and terraces with a dovecot | |
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 Andrews: Blackfriars Chapel | A vaulted side apse survives of this church of Dominican friars, which was built in about 1516. | |
St Andrews: St Mary's Church, Kirkheugh | Earliest collegiate church in Scotland | |
St Andrews: West Port | One of the few surviving city gates in Scotland | |
St Bridget's Kirk, Dalgety | The shell of a medieval church |
Glasgow
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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 (council area)
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Newark Castle | Firth of Clyde castle mainly associated with the notorious Patrick Maxwell |
Lanarkshire
North Lanarkshire
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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
East Lothian
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Chesters Hill Fort | One of the best-preserved Iron Age hill forts in Scotland | |
Dirleton Castle | Medieval fortified residence with garden | |
Doonhill Homestead | 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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Castlelaw Hill Fort | Iron Age hill fort | |
Crichton Castle | Residence of the Crichtons and later home to the Earls of Bothwell |
West Lothian
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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 precints 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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Barnhouse | 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 settlement | |
Brough of Birsay | Site featuring Pictish and Norse power-base with Pictish well | |
Cubbie Row's Castle | One of the earliest stone castles to survive in Scotland | |
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 | Extensive military remains on the island of Hoy | |
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 round 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. | |
Pierowall Church | The ruins of a medieval church, known as Lady Kirk, with some finely lettered tombstones. | |
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 | |
St Mary's Chapel, Wyre | Ruin of a 12th-century chapel and graveyard | |
St Nicholas' Church, Orphir | Remains of early 12th-century round church next to Earl's Bu | |
Stones of Stenness | The remains of a stone circle surrounded by remains of a circular earthen bank | |
Taversöe Tuick Chambered Cairn | Neolithic chambered cairn | |
Tormiston Mill | A late example of a Scottish watermill | |
Unstan Chambered Cairn | A mound covering a stone burial chamber divided by slabs into five compartments. | |
Watchstone | Standing stone northwest of the Stones of Stenness | |
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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Arnol Blackhouse | A traditional thatched house | |
Callanish 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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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. | |
Blackhill Camp | 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 | |
Kirkhill Roman Watchtower | Remains of Roman watchtower dating to the 1st-century | |
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 | |
St Serf's Inch Priory | Ruins of 12th-century priory on St Serf's Inch island in Loch Leven | |
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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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Barochan Cross | Free-standing early medieval cross | |
Castle Semple Collegiate Church | A late Gothic church |
Scottish Borders
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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 | |
Staneydale Temple | A Neolithic hall |
Stirling (council area)
Name |
Image | Notes |
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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 | |
Doune Roman Fort | Roman fort from the 1st-century | |
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 | |
Stirling Castle | One of Scotland’s grandest castles due to its imposing position and impressive architecture. | |
Stirling: Argyll's Lodging | A near-complete example of a 17th-century townhouse. | |
Stirling: King's Knot | Earthworks of a formal garden | |
Stirling: Mar's Wark | Renaissance mansion built by the Earl of Mar | |
Stirling: Old Bridge | A bridge built in the 15th or early 16th century |
See also
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References
- Historic Scotland - Places to Visit
- Current list of Property in Care of Historic Scotland (Correct to April 2010) Retrieved March 2015