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History of Monifieth · Historic Environment Scotland

30 listed buildings, 18 of them in the second category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Monifieth’s locality, 32 for every 10,000 residents. 12 of Monifieth’s listed buildings are Category C.

Listed buildings
30
32 per 10,000 residents
Category A
0
national importance
Category B
18
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
In pictures

Landmarks of Monifieth

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

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 Monifieth’s history is

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

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 B

The 18 Category B listed buildings in Monifieth

Buildings of regional importance. 2 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Show the other 6
What’s protected

The largest group of Monifieth’s listed buildings is homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas12
Public & civic buildings5
Walls, gates & bridges5
Churches, chapels & priories3
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Street furniture1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

12 entries (40%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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

12 Category C listed buildings

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

All 12 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
How the list grew

More than half of Monifieth’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1989

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

1989 · 26
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 2 entries were listed in 1971. 26 came in 1989, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Monifieth

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Monifieth9,356300—
Tayport3,967390—
Carnoustie11,37370—
Dundee147,36585369—
Newport-on-Tay and Wormit4,119370—
St Andrews16,46537020—
Arbroath23,4871416—
Forfar13,7741392—
In brief

Monifieth in brief

Monifieth has 30 listed buildings, including Albert Street, Railway Footbridge. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1989: 26 of 30. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has no Category A building, where the middle town its size has 1; and George Simpson (1887) was born here before 1900.

Questions about Monifieth’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Monifieth?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 30 buildings inside Monifieth’s locality: 0 Category A, 18 Category B and 12 Category C.

When were Monifieth’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 26, in 1989.

Monifieth 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.