104 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top category

Town House 31 High StreetCategory B listedWash-House the Tenements Brechin RoadCategory B listedThrums Hotel, 25 Bank Street (West Section Only)Category B listedKirriemuir Barony Parish Church, High Street and Bank StreetCategory B listed+1See 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.

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.

Of the 104 entries, 60 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 80 entries were listed in 1971, 1 of the 1 Category A buildings among them. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

James Aitken Wylie

William Burns Thomson

Alexander Whyte

J. M. Barrie

David Wilkie

William Kermack

Mary Davidson Gunn

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J. M. Barrie1860–1937 · Scottish writer and playwright (1860–1937)

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William Kermack1898–1970 · British biochemist and epidemiologist

Mary Davidson Gunn1899–1989 · South African librarian and biographer (1899–1989)

Alexander Whyte1836–1921 · Scottish theologian (1836-1921)

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David Wilkie1882–1938 · British surgeon

James Aitken Wylie1808–1890 · Scottish Presbyterian minister and historian of religion (1808–1890)

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William Burns Thomson1821–1893 · Scottish medical missionary

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

Kirriemuir has 104 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top category, including Town House 31 High Street. On High Street alone there are 11 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 7 people born here before 1900, the best known include J. M. Barrie (1860), William Kermack (1898) and Mary Davidson Gunn (1899). The big year was 1971, when 80 of the 104 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Category A building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 0).