APublic · listed 1971Culter House (St. Margaret's School for Girls Boarding House)Photo: Alan Findlay · CC BY-SA 2.0
Parish Church of St. Peter Peterculter · Photo: Watty62 · CC BY-SA 4.0–Not graded
History of Peterculter · Historic Environment Scotland
9 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top category
Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Peterculter’s locality, 21 for every 10,000 residents. 4 of Peterculter’s listed buildings are Category B. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings.
Listed buildings
9
21 per 10,000 residents
Category A
1
national importance
Category B
4
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
In pictures
Peterculter in 6 photos
Nearly every Category A and B building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Culter House (St. Margaret's School for Girls Boarding House)Category A listed
Kennerty BridgeCategory B listed
Lower Kennerty MillCategory C listed
St. Peter's Manse Peterculter.Category B listed
Upper Kennerty MillsCategory B listed+1See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
The map
Where Peterculter’s history is
Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.
Category ACategory B
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
9 listed buildings by grade
1 Category A4 Category B4 Category C
Historic Environment Scotland lists buildings in three categories: Category A for buildings of national or international importance (about 7.5% of listed buildings), Category B for buildings of regional importance (about 50%), and Category C for buildings of local importance (about 43%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s designations whose point lies inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
Category A
The Category A listed building in Peterculter
Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Category B
The 4 Category B listed buildings in Peterculter
Buildings of regional importance. 3 are photographed.
BWalls & gates · listed 1981Kennerty BridgePhoto: Stanley Howe · CC BY-SA 2.0
BHouse · listed 1971St. Peter's Manse Peterculter.Photo: OEJUTILA · CC BY-SA 4.0
BHouse · listed 1971Upper Kennerty MillsPhoto: Stephen Craven · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1971Culter House Walled Garden, Gazebo, Dovecot and Gatepiers
Category C
4 Category C listed buildings
This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Peterculter
| Town | People | Listed | Category A | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peterculter | 4,359 | 9 | 1 | — |
| Milltimber | 3,049 | 4 | 0 | — |
| Westhill | 11,778 | 8 | 0 | — |
| Kingswells | 4,776 | 3 | 0 | — |
| Portlethen | 8,965 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Newtonhill | 3,182 | 3 | 0 | — |
| Aberdeen | 192,968 | 1,086 | 65 | — |
| Cove Bay | 7,926 | 18 | 0 | — |
In brief
Peterculter in brief
The official list counts 9 listed buildings in Peterculter, 1 of them in the top category, including Culter House (St. Margaret's School for Girls Boarding House). The rest is about typical: it has one Category A building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 0); John Smith (1821) was born here before 1900; and the list grew between 1971 and 2000.
Questions about Peterculter’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Peterculter?
Historic Environment Scotland lists 9 buildings inside Peterculter’s locality: 1 Category A, 4 Category B and 4 Category C.
What are the Category A listed buildings in Peterculter?
One: Culter House (St. Margaret's School for Girls Boarding House).
Peterculter has no History Grade.
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, conservation areas and World Heritage Sites: Historic Environment Scotland, Open Government Licence v3.0. Check an entry on Historic Environment Scotland’s portal before relying on it.
Sources: Historic Environment Scotland designations (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, gardens and designed landscapes, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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