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History of Huntly · Historic Environment Scotland

71 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Huntly’s locality, 153 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 13 of its listed buildings.

3Category A32Category B2scheduled monuments10on Church Street
Listed buildings
71
153 per 10,000 residents
Category A
3
national importance
Category B
32
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
In pictures

Huntly in 14 photos

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St. Margaret's R.C. Church, Westpark Street and Chapel StreetSt. Margaret's R.C. Church, Westpark Street and Chapel StreetCategory A listedScott's Hospital, Gladstone RoadScott's Hospital, Gladstone RoadCategory A listedBinn Toll House Huntly.Binn Toll House Huntly.Category C listed18, The Square, Huntly Hotel.18, The Square, Huntly Hotel.Category C listedStewart's Hall 15, 17 Gordon StreetStewart's Hall 15, 17 Gordon StreetCategory C listed+9See 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 Huntly’s history is

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

Huntly Castle, scheduled monumentHuntly Market Square, symbol stone and standing stone, scheduled monumentBalvenie House 3 West Park Street, Category BBank of Scotland, 2 Gordon Street, Category BBrander Library, 17 Square, Category BChrist Church Episcopal Church Provost Street, Category BClydesdale Bank 2 Square and Gordon Street, Category BDistrict Sanitary Inspector's Office, 3, 5 Deveron Road, Category BDuke of Richmond Statue, The Square, Huntly (excluding Scheduled Monument No 73 'Huntly Market Square, Symbol Stone and Standing Stone'), Category BHowglen Gladstone Road, Category BHuntly War Memorial, Category BParish Church of Huntly Church Street, Category BPost Office 15, 16 Square, Category BStathbogie Parish Church Bogie Street, Category BStrathbogie Manse Deveron Road, Category BThe Cottage, Queen Street, Category B1 Gordon Street Corner of Square, Category B1 and 1A Bogie Street, Category B15, 17 Church Street, Category B19 Castle Street, Category B20, 22 Castle Street, Category B23-25 Gordon Street, Category B24 and 30 the Square, Category B25 Church Street, Category B28 the Square, Category B29 Deveron Street, Category B3 Church Street and 35 Duke Street, Category B30 Castle Street, Category B58 Bogie Street, Category B59, 61 Gordon Street, Category B6 Church Street, Category B8 Church Street and Johnston and Carmichael's Office, Category B8-12 Castle Street, Category B9 Church Street, Category BGordon's Schools Original Building Only., Category AScott's Hospital, Gladstone Road, Category ASt. Margaret's R.C. Church, Westpark Street and Chapel Street, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument

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71 listed buildings by grade
3 Category A32 Category B36 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 Huntly

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. 2 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category B

The 32 Category B listed buildings in Huntly

Buildings of regional importance. 8 are photographed.

Show the other 20
Historic streets

Church 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.

Church Street10 listed · 4 II*
Castle Street6 listed · 4 II*
19 Castle Street
Gordon Street6 listed · 2 II*
23-25 Gordon Street
Bogie Street4 listed · 2 II*
Duke Street3 listed

Of the 71 entries, 39 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Huntly’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas54
Public & civic buildings7
Churches, chapels & priories4
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Walls, gates & bridges1

54 entries (76%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 3 Category A buildings.

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

36 Category C listed buildings

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

All 36 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Binn Toll House Huntly.Granary Building, Richmond Lane and Granary StreetHuntly Family Centre (Former Drill Hall), 4 Deveron Road, HuntlyMeadow Burn Bridge near Huntly Castle.Reid and Gordon's 21 Gordon Street and Nelson StreetRose Cottage (Former Toll-House) Battlehill, Near Huntly.Stewart's Hall 15, 17 Gordon StreetThe Manse, Princes StreetThe Square Fountain.The Square, Gordon Arms Hotel.1-5 Duke Street10 Church Street10 Gordon Street11, 13 Church Street12 Church Street14 Castle Street14 Gordon Street16, 18 Castle Street18, The Square, Huntly Hotel.19 Church Street22, 23 the Square23 Church Street26 the Square27 Deveron Street with Pend to 2531 Deveron Street32 Old Road32 the Square43-45 Duke Street5 Church Street54 Bogie Street56 Bogie Street7 the Square, Aberdeen Savings Bank.7-11 Duke Street7-11 Gordon Street78-80 Gordon Street8, 9 Square
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 24% of Huntly

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

Huntly 197055 ha
55 hain conservation areas, of 227 ha inside the locality.

68 of the 71 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 Huntly’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1971

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

1971 · 471984 · 13
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 47 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.

Huntly Castle
Huntly CastleSecular: castle
Huntly Market Square, symbol stone and standing stoneCrosses and carved stones: symbol stone; Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone
Born here

9 notable people born in Huntly before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

William Hay, 4th Earl of Erroll
William Allan
George Philip
James Legge
George Morison Robertson
George MacDonald
John Perie
William Macdonald
Charles Troup
1500165018001950
George MacDonald
George MacDonald1824–1905 · Scottish writer and Christian minister (1824–1905)
James Legge
James Legge1815–1897 · Scottish missionary and translator (1815–1897)
William Hay, 4th Earl of Erroll
William Hay, 4th Earl of Erroll1470–1513 · Scottish peer and soldier
George Philip
George Philip1800–1882 · Cartographer
George Morison Robertson
George Morison Robertson1821–1867 · American judge
WA
William Allan1770–1853 · Canadian banker, businessman and politician
JP
John Perie1831–1874 · Recipient of the Victoria Cross
WM
William Macdonald1851–1941 · Born: 1851 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; Died: 29 December 1941…

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

Towns its size

Huntly has the 25th most Category A buildings of 221 towns its size

Scottish towns of 2,000–12,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
Montrose11
Banff11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Jedburgh8
Rothesay7
Dunbar7
Brechin6
South Queensferry6
North Berwick6
Huntly3
#33 of 221for listed buildings per resident (153 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.

24 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Huntly

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Huntly4,628713—
Keith4,554584—
Insch2,68550—
In brief

Huntly in brief

The official list counts 71 listed buildings in Huntly, 3 of them in the top category, including St. Margaret's R.C. Church, Westpark Street and Chapel Street. Only 24 of the 221 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. On Church Street alone there are 10 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Of the whole list, 76% are houses, terraces and villas. George MacDonald (1824), James Legge (1815) and William Hay, 4th Earl of Erroll (1470) are among the 9 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1971: 47 of 71. The rest is about typical: it also has 2 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Huntly’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Huntly?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 71 buildings inside Huntly’s locality: 3 Category A, 32 Category B and 36 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Huntly?

3, including Gordon's Schools Original Building Only., Scott's Hospital, Gladstone Road and St. Margaret's R.C. Church, Westpark Street and Chapel Street.

Which street in Huntly has the most listed buildings?

Church Street (10), Castle Street (6) and Gordon Street (6) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Huntly?

Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Huntly Castle and Huntly Market Square, symbol stone and standing stone.

How many conservation areas are there in Huntly?

1, covering about 55 hectares of the town. The largest is Huntly.

When were Huntly’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 47, in 1971.

Who was born in Huntly?

Among people born before 1900: George MacDonald (1824), James Legge (1815), William Hay, 4th Earl of Erroll (1470), George Philip (1800) and George Morison Robertson (1821).

Huntly 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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