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History of Arbroath · Historic Environment Scotland

141 listed buildings, 6 of them in the top category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Arbroath’s locality, 60 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 49 of its listed buildings.

6Category A77Category B2scheduled monuments7on High Street
Listed buildings
141
60 per 10,000 residents
Category A
6
national importance
Category B
77
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
In pictures

Arbroath in 49 photos

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Hospital FieldHospital FieldCategory A listedSt. Vigeans Parish KirkSt. Vigeans Parish KirkCategory A listedLadyloan, Bell Rock Lighthouse Signal Tower and Entrance LodgesLadyloan, Bell Rock Lighthouse Signal Tower and Entrance LodgesCategory A listed78 High Street and 3 and 5 Commerce Street, Court House78 High Street and 3 and 5 Commerce Street, Court HouseCategory B listedNo. 4, The Shore, Harbour HouseNo. 4, The Shore, Harbour HouseCategory B listed+44See 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 Arbroath’s history is

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

Arbroath Abbey and associated buildings, including the Abbot's House, scheduled monumentSouterrain, Eastern Cemetery, Arbroath, scheduled monumentAbbey Lodge, Abbey Street, Category BArbroath Abbey - Monument in Burial Ground, Category BArbroath North Signal Box and Cast-Iron Footbridge, Category BBank of Scotland Brothock Bridge, Category BEast Kirkton Farmhouse, Category BElm Bank, Category BHearse House, Category BHigh Street at Corner of Hill Street, Clydesdale and North Bank and Prudential Buildings, Category BHigh Street, At Corner of Commerce Street, Bank of Scotland, Category BHill Road, Grant's Former Boot/Shoe Factory, Category BHospital Field - Doocot, Category BHospital Field - Farmbuilding, Category BHospital Field - Fernery, Category BHospital Field - North Lodge, Category BHoward Street Knox's Church Including Boundary Walls and Railings, Category BInverbrothock Parish Church, James Street, Category BJock's Lodge, Gowan Street, Category BKeptie Road, Arbroath High School, Category BKirk Square, K6 Telephone Kiosk, Category BKirkyard Walls, Category BLadyloan School Ladyloan, Category BMaulesbank House, Maule Street, Category BNo. 1, Kirkstyle, St. Vigeans, Category BNo. 1, The Shore, Category BNo. 10, Marketgate, Category BNo. 11, Marketgate, Category BNo. 12, Marketgate, Category BNo. 13, Marketgate, Category BNo. 13, The Shore, Category BNo. 14, Marketgate, Category BNo. 15, Marketgate, Category BNo. 16, Marketgate, Category BNo. 17, Marketgate, Category BNo. 18, Marketgate, Category BNo. 2 and 3, The Shore., Category BNo. 20, Marketgate, Category BNo. 23, Old Shore Head, Category BNo. 29, Marketgate, Category BNo. 31, Marketgate, "Kingsley House", Category BNo. 37, West Newgate Street, Newgate House, Category BNo. 4, The Shore, Harbour House, Category BNo. 42, Hill Street, Category BNo. 42, Marketgate, Category BNo. 44, Marketgate, Category BNo. 46, Marketgate, Category BNo. 6 Marketgate, Category BNo. 64, Marketgate, Category BNo. 8, Marketgate, Category BNo. 9, Marketgate, Category BNorth Tarry House, Category BNos. 10 and 11 the Shore, Category BNos. 12-18, Keptie Street, Category BNos. 129 - 133 & 141 High Street, Royal Hotel, Category BNos. 163 and 165, High Street, Formerly the White Hart Inn, Category BNos. 2-4, Kirkstyle, St. Vigeans, Category BNos. 23, 25 and 27, Marketgate, Category BNos. 3 and 5, High Street, Category BNos. 5-8, Kirkstyle, St. Vigeans, Category BNos. 6-9, The Shore, Category BNos. 7 and 9, West Keptie Street, Category BNos. 80-84 High Street, Category BOld Church of Arbroath, Kirk Square, Category BOld Corn Exchange, Market Place, Category BPublic Library and Art Gallery, Hill Place, Category BRosely Hotel, Category BSt. John's Methodist Church, 15 Ponderlaw Street, Category BSt. Margaret's Church, Keptie Road, Category BSt. Mary's Episcopal Church, Springfield Terrace, Category BSt. Thomas of Canterbury Roman Catholic Church, Dishlandtown Street, Category BSt. Vigeans Bridge over Brothock Burn, Category BThe Elms - East Lodge, Category BWater Tower, Keptie Hill, Category BWest Abbey Street, Abbey Parish Church Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Church Halls, Category BWoodside House Including Sundial to South, Category B4 and 5 Gayfield, Category B78 High Street and 3 and 5 Commerce Street, Court House, Category B88 High Street (Former Town House), Arbroath, Category BDens Road, Baltic Works (Former Arbroath Warehouse Limited Bond Number 1), Category AHospital Field, Category ALadyloan, Bell Rock Lighthouse Signal Tower and Entrance Lodges, Category AMortuary Chapel - Western Cemetery, Category ASt. Vigeans Parish Kirk, Category AThe Elms, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument

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141 listed buildings by grade
6 Category A77 Category B58 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 6 Category A listed buildings in Arbroath

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.

Public · listed 1971Hospital FieldPhoto: Sarah Charlesworth · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1971The ElmsPhoto: Ronniedeas · CC BY-SA 4.0
Category B

The 77 Category B listed buildings in Arbroath

Buildings of regional importance. 42 are photographed.

Show the other 65
What’s protected

Most of Arbroath’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas99
Public & civic buildings12
Inns, shops & warehouses12
Churches, chapels & priories10
Walls, gates & bridges7
Street furniture1

99 entries (70%) are houses, terraces and villas. 10 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 6 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

58 Category C listed buildings

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

All 58 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
"Collingdale" (Formerly Cairniehill Stables)"The Croft" No. 31, Keptie Road"Ye Lorne Bar", Commerce StreetArbroath Community Centre (former Drill Hall), Marketgate, ArbroathArbroath Guide Offices, Market PlaceElliot, North of A92, Former Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring PostGladshiel Private Hotel, Ogilvy PlaceHalls of Arbroath Old Church, Commerce StreetHouse in Hays LaneInfirmary Grounds, House at North-West CornerInverbrothock Public SchoolLadybridge House, Ladybridge StreetMillgate, Windmill HotelNo. 13, Old Shore Head, "The Commercial Inn"No. 145 High StreetNo. 21, Marketgate "the Ship Inn"No. 3, Ponderlaw StreetNo. 33, MarketgateNo. 37, MillgateNo. 40, Hill StreetNo. 5, Old Shore HeadNo. 56, MarketgateNo. 7, High StreetNo. 7, Old Shore HeadNo. 86 High StreetNo. 93, High StreetNorth Tarry - South GatesNos. 105, 107 and 109, High StreetNos. 115 and 117, High Street, National Commercial BankNos. 121 and 123, High StreetNos. 123 and 125, High StreetNos. 147 and 149, High StreetNos. 151 and 153, High StreetNos. 17 and 19, High StreetNos. 267, 269 and 271 High StreetNos. 36 and 38, Hill StreetNos. 39, 41 and 43, MarketgateNos. 48 and 50, MarketgateNos. 52 and 54, MarketgateNos. 9 and 11, Old Shore HeadNos. 99 and 101, High StreetParish Kirk, ManseSeaton SmithySt. Mary's Rectory, Springfield TerraceWesley House, Ponderlaw StreetWoodside House, Former Steading and Water TowerWoodside House, South Gatelodge Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers100 and 102 High Street104-108 High Street110 and 112, High Street114 and 116, High Street118 and 122 High Street124, High Street2 and 8 Market Place3 Albert Street, Mound House64 High Street, Webster Memorial Theatre90, 92 and 94 (Former Guildry Buildings), High Street, Arbroath96 and 98, High Street
Conservation areas

4 conservation areas cover 5.8% of Arbroath

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

Arbroath Abbey to Harbour28 ha
Arbroath Keptie Pond16 ha
St Vigeans6 ha
Arbroath West Port2 ha
52 hain conservation areas, of 910 ha inside the locality.

101 of the 141 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 Arbroath’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1971

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

1971 · 1101980 · 18
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 110 entries were listed in 1971, 6 of the 6 Category A buildings among them. Only 3 have 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.

Arbroath Abbey and associated buildings, including the Abbot's House
Souterrain, Eastern Cemetery, Arbroath
Souterrain, Eastern Cemetery, ArbroathPrehistoric domestic and defensive: souterrain, earth-house
Born here

40 notable people born in Arbroath before 1900

The 20 best known on one timeline, earliest first.

John Wallace
Alexander Adams
James Chalmers
Neil Arnott
William Sharpey
Patrick Allan Fraser
John Ritchie Findlay
James Barnet
Alexander Stuart Murray
George Scott Railton
James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape
Durward Lely
David Dunbar Buick
George Robert Milne Murray
Louisa Macdonald
James Mason
John Petrie
David Skea
William Maxwell
David Neave
1650170017501800185019001950
David Dunbar Buick
David Dunbar Buick1854–1929 · Scottish-American inventor
Neil Arnott
Neil Arnott1788–1874 · Scottish physician (1788-1874)
William Maxwell
William Maxwell1876–1940 · Scottish professional footballer and amateur cricketer (1876-1940)
George Robert Milne Murray
George Robert Milne Murray1858–1911 · British botanist (1858-1911)
William Sharpey
William Sharpey1802–1880 · Scottish physiologist
John Petrie
John Petrie1867– · Scottish footballer
James Chalmers
James Chalmers1782–1853 · 1782-1853; alleged Scottish inventor of the adhesive postage stamp
Alexander Stuart Murray
Alexander Stuart Murray1841–1904 · British archaeologist (1841-1904)

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

Towns its size

Arbroath has the 19th most Category A buildings of 92 towns its size

Scottish towns of 9,000–59,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Stirling24
Dumfries22
St Andrews20
Perth20
Ayr16
Greenock15
Inverness14
Elgin13
Helensburgh13
Hamilton13
Montrose11
Arbroath6
#28 of 92for listed buildings per resident (60 per 10,000). Haddington, Montrose and St Andrews lead.

18 have more. The typical town its size has 2.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Arbroath

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Arbroath23,4871416—
Carnoustie11,37370—
Monifieth9,356300—
Montrose11,24126811—
Brechin7,1801726—
In brief

Arbroath in brief

Arbroath has 141 listed buildings, 6 of them in the top category, including Hospital Field. Only 18 of the 92 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. Its older streets lie in 4 conservation areas. Of the whole list, 70% are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 40 people born here before 1900, the best known include David Dunbar Buick (1854), Neil Arnott (1788) and William Maxwell (1876). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1971: 110 of 141. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 2 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Arbroath’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Arbroath?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 141 buildings inside Arbroath’s locality: 6 Category A, 77 Category B and 58 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Arbroath?

6, including Dens Road, Baltic Works (Former Arbroath Warehouse Limited Bond Number 1), Hospital Field, Ladyloan, Bell Rock Lighthouse Signal Tower and Entrance Lodges, Mortuary Chapel - Western Cemetery, St. Vigeans Parish Kirk and The Elms.

Are there scheduled monuments in Arbroath?

Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Arbroath Abbey and associated buildings, including the Abbot's House and Souterrain, Eastern Cemetery, Arbroath.

How many conservation areas are there in Arbroath?

4, covering about 52 hectares of the town. The largest are Arbroath Abbey to Harbour and Arbroath Keptie Pond.

When were Arbroath’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 110, in 1971.

Who was born in Arbroath?

Among people born before 1900: David Dunbar Buick (1854), Neil Arnott (1788), William Maxwell (1876), George Robert Milne Murray (1858) and William Sharpey (1802).

Arbroath 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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