163 listed buildings, 5 of them in the top category

Bath Street, Fetteresso (Church of Scotland)Category A listedStonehaven Railway Station Including Signal BoxCategory B listedArbuthnott Street, White BridgeCategory C listed5 Shorehead, The Ship InnCategory C listedMarket Square, Market BuildingsCategory B listed+24See 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.

c. 1890

1903

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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.

Market Square9 listed · 2 II*

Cameron Street8 listed

High Street7 listed · 1 II*

Ann Street5 listed · 1 II*

Evan Street5 listed

Allardice Street4 listed

Arbuthnott Street4 listed

Barclay Street4 listed · 1 II*

Castle Street3 listed · 1 II*

Gatepiers and Gates3 listed · 1 Category A · 1 II*

Shorehead3 listed · 1 II*

Of the 163 entries, 100 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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.

The first 46 entries were listed in 1972, 5 of the 5 Category A buildings among them. 75 came in 1980, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 scheduled monuments

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

Cowie Line, pill box & anti-tank blocks 450m W of Ury House20th Century Military and Related: Pillbox

Cowie Line, pill boxes & anti-tank blocks 200m SW-275m SE of Ury House20th Century Military and Related: Pillbox

St Ciaran's Church,old parish church,FetteressoEcclesiastical: church

Alexander Wood

Robert William Thomson

George Thomson Chapman

Alexander Wood

James Murdoch

John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

Tom McEwen

Alexander Vass Anderson

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John Reith, 1st Baron Reith1889–1971 · British broadcasting executive and politician (1889–1971)

Robert William Thomson1822–1873 · Scottish businessman and inventor (1822-1873)

James Murdoch1856–1921 · British journalist and academic

AA

Alexander Vass Anderson1895–1963 · British Army general

Alexander Wood1772–1844 · Merchant and magistrate in Upper Canada

GC

George Thomson Chapman1824–1881 · New Zealand merchant, bookseller, photographer and publisher

AW

Alexander Wood1848–1905 · Scotland international rugby union player (1848-1905)

TM

Tom McEwen1891–1988 · Canadian politician (1891–1988)

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

Stonehaven has 163 listed buildings, 5 of them in the top category, including Old Pier, Old Tolbooth of Stonehaven Including Boundary Walls and Gates. Only 20 of the 166 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. Market Square alone has 9 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970.

Of the whole list, 72% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 8 people born here before 1900, the best known include John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1889), Robert William Thomson (1822) and James Murdoch (1856). The rest is about typical: it also has 3 scheduled monuments.