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History of Fraserburgh · Historic Environment Scotland

107 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Fraserburgh’s locality, 83 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 19 of its listed buildings.

3Category A26Category B2scheduled monuments48on Main Street
Listed buildings
107
83 per 10,000 residents
Category A
3
national importance
Category B
26
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
In pictures

Fraserburgh in 20 photos

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Former Kinnaird Head Lighthouse, including outbuildings and fog horn, Stevenson Road, FraserburghFormer Kinnaird Head Lighthouse, including outbuildings and fog horn, Stevenson Road, FraserburghCategory A listedWine Tower, towerWine Tower, towerScheduled monumentHarbour Works Office at Middle JettyHarbour Works Office at Middle JettyCategory C listedSt. Peter's Episcopal Church, Charlotte StreetSt. Peter's Episcopal Church, Charlotte StreetCategory B listedSaltoun Arms, Saltoun SquareSaltoun Arms, Saltoun SquareCategory B listed+15See all photos

Photos 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 Fraserburgh’s history is

Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.

Pillbox, 150m WNW of The Neuk, scheduled monumentWine Tower, tower, scheduled monumentBrittanic Assurance Company Building, Broad Street and Commerce Street, Category BCentral School Charlotte Street, Category BClydesdale Bank Broad Street and 1 Mid Street, Category BCoastguard Station Houses, 60-70 Saltoun Place, Category BFraserburgh South Church of Scotland, Category BOld Parish Church Saltoun Square, Category BRegistrar's Office, 14, 16 Saltoun Square, Category BSaltoun Arms, Saltoun Square, Category BSaltoun Mausoleum E. of Old Parish Church, Category BSaltoun Place, Fountain, Category BSouth Middleburgh Tollhouse., Category BSt. Peter's Episcopal Church, Charlotte Street, Category BSt. Peter's Rectory, Victoria Street, Category BSt. Peter's School, Victoria Street, Category BThe World's End 11 Dalrymple Street, Category BTown House and Police Office 3 Saltoun Square and 1-5 Kirk Brae., Category BWar Memorial Saltoun Place and St. Modan's Gate, Category BWindmill Tower Within Gray's Timber Yard Albert Street, Mid Street and Charlotte Street, Category B10 Commerce Street, Category B2-16 College Bounds., Category B24-32 Saltoun Place, Category B5 Commerce Street, Category B50-54 Broad Street, Category B56 Main Street, Category B64, 68 Frithside Street. (Salvation Army), Category B7, 9 Commerce Street, Category BCustom House, (Formerly Occupied by Bank of Scotland) Broad Street and Frithside Street, Category AFormer Kinnaird Head Lighthouse, including outbuildings and fog horn, Stevenson Road, Fraserburgh, Category AMarket Cross Saltoun Square, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument

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107 listed buildings by grade
3 Category A26 Category B78 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 3 Category A listed buildings in Fraserburgh

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 26 Category B listed buildings in Fraserburgh

Buildings of regional importance. 15 are photographed.

Show the other 14
Historic streets

Main Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

Main Street48 listed · 1 II*
Duke Lane5 listed
Saltoun Place5 listed · 1 II*
George Street4 listed
Commerce Street3 listed · 3 II*
Noble Street3 listed

Of the 107 entries, 78 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Fraserburgh’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas88
Public & civic buildings10
Churches, chapels & priories4
Inns, shops & warehouses2
Walls, gates & bridges2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

88 entries (82%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories.

Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.

Category C

78 Category C listed buildings

This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.

All 78 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Craigielea (Old Manse) 7 Saltoun PlaceDalyrmple Hall and Cafe Dalrymple StreetFormer Church Hall, Main StreetHarbour Works Office at Middle JettyMaconochie Road, Kessock Road, Former Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Works Site: Office Block and Former Workshop Facing Maconochie Road, 2-Bay Sawtoothed Machine Shop to Rear of Office, And Boundary Walls, Railings and Gatepiers OnlyShalom, 72 Main Street1, 3 Caroline Place and 89 High Street1, 3 Lodge Walk113 Charlotte Street13 Main Street14 Main Street15 Main Street16 Main Street17 Main Street19 Main Street2 Duke Lane2 Gaw Street2-28 Noble Street20 Main Street21, 23 Saltoun Place22 Main Street23 Main Street24 Main Street25 Main Street25 Saltoun Place26 Main Street27 Main Street27, 29 Saltoun Place28 Main Street29 Main Street3 Duke Lane3 Noble Street3 and a Half Duke Lane3, 5 Broadsea Road.3, 5 George Street30 Main Street31 Main Street31, 33, 35 Saltoun Place32 Main Street33 Main Street34 Main Street35 Main Street36 Main Street38 Main Street39 George Street39 Main Street4, 4-1/2 George Street and 30 Noble Street40 Main Street41 Commerce Street and 66, 68 Cross Street41 Main Street42 Main Street43 Main Street44 Main Street45 Main Street46 Main Street47 Main Street49 Main Street5 Duke Lane5 Noble Street51 Main Street52 Main Street53 Main Street54 Main Street6 Main Street6-46 George Street60 Main Street62 Frithside Street64 Main Street69 Main Street7 Duke Lane7-37 George Street73 Main Street78 Main Street8, 10 Main Street80 Main Street82 Main Street84 Main Street9 Duke Lane
Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 4.6% of Fraserburgh

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Fraserburgh Town Centre 197015 ha
Broadsea Fraserburgh 19708 ha
23 hain conservation areas, of 496 ha inside the locality.

The first, Fraserburgh Town Centre and Broadsea Fraserburgh, were designated in 1970; the newest, Broadsea Fraserburgh, in 1970. 88 of the 107 listed buildings stand in one.

Historic Environment Scotland’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the locality.

How the list grew

More than half of Fraserburgh’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1971

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1971 · 791982 · 26
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 79 entries were listed in 1971, 3 of the 3 Category A buildings among them. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from Historic Environment Scotland.

Pillbox, 150m WNW of The Neuk20th Century Military and Related: Pillbox
Wine Tower, tower
Wine Tower, towerSecular: tower
Born here

13 notable people born in Fraserburgh before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

James Ramsay
John Fraser
James Walker
Christian Watt
Robertson Macaulay
Thomas Blake Glover
George Strahan
John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie
Ann Watt Milne
William Noble
Charles Jarvis
Finlay Kennedy
Archie Johnstone
170017501800185019001950
Thomas Blake Glover
Thomas Blake Glover1838–1911 · Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan
John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie
John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie1847–1887 · British politician (1847-1887)
James Ramsay
James Ramsay1733–1789 · Scottish Anglican priest and abolitionist
George Strahan
George Strahan1838–1887 · British military officer and colonial administrator (1838-1887)
Charles Jarvis
Charles Jarvis1881–1948 · Scottish soldier (1881–1948); recipient of the Victoria Cross
JW
James Walker1770–1841 · Anglican minister and bishop born in 1770
WN
William Noble1861–1943 · BBC Founder, Chief Engineer, GPO (1861 - 1943)
AJ
Archie Johnstone1896–1963 · British journalist

Everyone born in Fraserburgh → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Towns its size

Fraserburgh has the 28th most Category A buildings of 148 towns its size

Scottish towns of 5,000–32,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
St Andrews20
Elgin13
Helensburgh13
Montrose11
Musselburgh11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Linlithgow9
Dalkeith8
Dunbar7
Fraserburgh3
#37 of 148for listed buildings per resident (83 per 10,000). Kelso, Kirkwall and Haddington lead.

27 have more. The typical town its size has 1.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Fraserburgh

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Fraserburgh12,9261073—
Mintlaw2,83230—
In brief

Fraserburgh in brief

The official list counts 107 listed buildings in Fraserburgh, 3 of them in the top category, including Custom House, (Formerly Occupied by Bank of Scotland) Broad Street and Frithside Street. Only 27 of the 148 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. On Main Street alone there are 48 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970.

Of the whole list, 82% are houses, terraces and villas. Thomas Blake Glover (1838), John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie (1847) and James Ramsay (1733) are among the 13 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1971: 79 of 107. Beyond that, it also has 2 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Fraserburgh’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Fraserburgh?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 107 buildings inside Fraserburgh’s locality: 3 Category A, 26 Category B and 78 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Fraserburgh?

3, including Custom House, (Formerly Occupied by Bank of Scotland) Broad Street and Frithside Street, Former Kinnaird Head Lighthouse, including outbuildings and fog horn, Stevenson Road, Fraserburgh and Market Cross Saltoun Square.

Which street in Fraserburgh has the most listed buildings?

Main Street (48), Duke Lane (5) and Saltoun Place (5) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Fraserburgh?

Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Pillbox, 150m WNW of The Neuk and Wine Tower, tower.

How many conservation areas are there in Fraserburgh?

2, covering about 23 hectares of the town. The largest are Fraserburgh Town Centre and Broadsea Fraserburgh.

When were Fraserburgh’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 79, in 1971.

Who was born in Fraserburgh?

Among people born before 1900: Thomas Blake Glover (1838), John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie (1847), James Ramsay (1733), George Strahan (1838) and Charles Jarvis (1881).

Fraserburgh 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 · Historic Environment Scotland conservation areas (compiled from councils; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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