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The Gean House, (Including Terraces, Forecourt, Walled Garden and Summerhouse), Tullibody Road and ClaremontThe Gean House, (Including Terraces, Forecourt, Walled Garden and Summerhouse), Tullibody Road and Claremont · Photo: Spikey · CC BY-SA 4.0
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History of Alloa · Historic Environment Scotland

81 listed buildings, 6 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Alloa’s locality, 55 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 3 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 22 of its listed buildings and 1 old view of the town.

6Category A41Category B3scheduled monuments5on Grange Road
Listed buildings
81
55 per 10,000 residents
Category A
6
national importance
Category B
41
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
3
nationally important sites
In pictures

Alloa in 25 photos and old views

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Alloa TowerAlloa TowerCategory A listedSpiers Centre (Former Public Baths and Gymnasium), Primrose Street and Primrose Place, AlloaSpiers Centre (Former Public Baths and Gymnasium), Primrose Street and Primrose Place, AlloaCategory A listedEast Vennel and Old Bridge Street, Thistle BreweryEast Vennel and Old Bridge Street, Thistle BreweryCategory B listedTown Hall, MarshillTown Hall, MarshillCategory C listedCoach House Theatre, Tullibody Road, Former Inglewood East Lodge and Garage BlockCoach House Theatre, Tullibody Road, Former Inglewood East Lodge and Garage BlockCategory B listed+20See 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.

Through time

Alloa in old photos

1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

Alloa railway stationc. 1895
VictorianAlloa railway stationPhoto: Unknown photographer · Public domain

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

The map

Where Alloa’s history is

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

Alloa Glass Works,glass cone, scheduled monumentAlloa,old parish church, scheduled monumentHawk Hill cairn, scheduled monumentAlloa Old Kirkyard, Kirkgate, Category BAlloa Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court, including boundary walls and railings and excluding 2-storey and basement office block to east, Mar Street and Drysdale Street, Alloa, Category BBank Street Coalgate and Stripehead Former Gas Showroom, Category BBedford Place, K6 Telephone Kiosk at Former General Post Office, Category BClaremont, South African War Memorial, Category BCoach House Theatre, Tullibody Road, Former Inglewood East Lodge and Garage Block, Category BDunmar House Hotel, Category BEast Vennel and Old Bridge Street, Thistle Brewery, Category BFormer Chalmers Church, Bank Street Junction with Mill Street, Category BGatepiers, Formerly of Alloa House, Lime Tree Walk, Category BGean House North Lodge to Tullibody Road, Category BGrange Road, St John's Primary School (Former Grange School) Including Boundary Walls, Category BGreenfield House (Now District Council Offices), Category BInglewood West Lodge and Gates, Tullibody Road, Category BLudgate, Alloa North Parish Church, Category BMar and Kellie Mausoleum, Alloa, Old Kirkyard, Kirkgate, Category BMarshill, Marcelle (Regional Offices), Category BMercat Cross at 16 Bank Street, Category BNapoleon Pillar Carsebridge House, Category BOchil House Marshill and Mar Street, Category BPavilion, Paton & Baldwin's Recreation Ground, Tullibody Road, Alloa, Category BSt John's Episcopal Church Limetree Walk, Category BSt John's Rectory, Grange Road, Category BSt Mungo's Parish Church Bedford Place, Category BStable Block of Former Alloa House, Category BWar Memorial Gusset of Bank Street and Church Street, Category B1,3 Mar Street and 31 Mill Street, Former Bank of Scotland Building, Category B11 Bedford Place Fenton House, Category B13 Bedford Place Bedford House (Regional Council Offices), Category B13, 15 Mar Street Former Liberal Club, Category B14 Bedford Place, Category B16 and 16A Bedford Place, Westray, Category B17 Mar Street, Job Centre (Former Co-Operative Society Headquarters), Category B17, 19, 21 High Street Bank of Scotland Building, Category B19 Mar Street YMCA Building (Original Front House Block Only), Category B19, 21, 23 Bank Street, Category B21 Mar Street, Category B25 and 27 Bank Street, 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 Union Street, 2 and 12 Brewhouse Court, 20 and 22 Coalgate, Former Meadow Brewery and Union Club, Category B41-45 Mill Street and 2 High Street, Category B6-10 (Even Nos) Mar Street, Hope Bakers, With Ovens, Category B9, 9A Bedford Place Old West Manse, Category BAlloa Tower, Category AGreenside Street, Kilncraigs, Category AGreenside Street, Kilncraigs Despatch Warehouse, Category ASpiers Centre (Former Public Baths and Gymnasium), Primrose Street and Primrose Place, Alloa, Category AThe Gean House, (Including Terraces, Forecourt, Walled Garden and Summerhouse), Tullibody Road and Claremont, Category A25 Kirkgate (Star House), Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument400 m from Alloa Tower
4 of 6Category A buildings stand within 400 m of Alloa Tower, a five-minute walk. So do 28 of the 81 listed buildings.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

81 listed buildings by grade
6 Category A41 Category B34 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 Alloa

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings; 4 of these stand within 400 m of Alloa Tower. 5 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

House · listed 1960Alloa TowerPhoto: AllyD · Public domain
Category B

The 41 Category B listed buildings in Alloa

Buildings of regional importance. 16 are photographed.

Show the other 29
What’s protected

Most of Alloa’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas49
Churches, chapels & priories8
Public & civic buildings8
Walls, gates & bridges7
Inns, shops & warehouses6
Memorials, crosses & tombs3

49 entries (60%) are houses, terraces and villas. 8 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

34 Category C listed buildings

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

All 34 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Alloa Co-Operative Sports Pavilion, Sunnyside Road, AlloaAlloa West Church Bedford Place and LudgateClaremont House, ClaremontCrown Hotel Bank StreetFormer Alloa Burgh School (St Mungo's Infant Department) Bedford PlaceFormer County Offices, 70 Drysdale StreetFormer Library and Museum Hall (Now Weir Pumps), Church StreetFormer Social Security Offices, 16 Bank StreetFormer St Mungo's Parish Hall, 10 Bedford Place, (1-8) St Mungo's Wynd Including Boundary Wall and GatepiersGreenside Street, Elim Pentecostal Church (Formerly Greenside Mission Chapel)Greenside Street, Old Paton's Mill SchoolLudgate, Claremont Workshops, North Building (Former Ludgate Infant School) Including Boundary Walls, Railings, Gatepiers and GateMar Place House Mar PlaceMarshill, Marchill House (Regional Offices)Moncrieff House 72 Drysdale StreetMoncrieff Uf Church Drysdale StreetOld Post Office and Savings Bank (Upper Floors Now Part of Social Security Offices Etc) Bank StreetRoyal Oak Hotel and 3, 5 Bedford PlaceSt Mungo’s Church (Roman Catholic) including boundary walls and railings and excluding presbytery to the north and hall to the rear (east), 25 Mar Street, AlloaStirling Road, Cowden ParkThe Gean House South LodgeTown Hall, Marshill1, 1A and 2 Grange Road1, 3 Coalgate12 Bedford Place Including Garden Walls and Gate13 Grange Road18-22 Bank Street21 Claremont, Claremont Grove Including Outbuildings, Summerhouse, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers and Garden Features3 and 3A Grange Road33 Claremont35 Claremont, Craigmyle4, 5 Grange Road40, 40A Grange Road9, 11 Bank Street Clydesdale Bank
Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 7.6% of Alloa

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

Alloa Glebe 197030 ha
Old Alloa 197016 ha
46 hain conservation areas, of 597 ha inside the locality.

The first, Alloa Glebe and Old Alloa, were designated in 1970; the newest, Old Alloa, in 1970. 59 of the 81 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 Alloa’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1972

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

1972 · 461977 · 16
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 2 entries were listed in 1960, 2 of the 6 Category A buildings among them. 46 came in 1972, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. 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.

3 scheduled monuments

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

Alloa Glass Works,glass cone
Alloa,old parish church
Alloa,old parish churchEcclesiastical: church
Hawk Hill cairnPrehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Born here

17 notable people born in Alloa before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

George Turnbull
David Allan
William Mitchell
William McEwan
John Ferguson
James Taylor Middleton
Robert Ramsay Wright
Andrew Jameson
Catherine Forrester Paton
James Jameson
Jock Hepburn
Leitch Keir
Barney Lee
Bob Jack
Jeffrey Batters Home-Hay
Alastair Smallwood
John Crawford Buchan
1650170017501800185019001950
David Allan
David Allan1744–1796 · Scottish painter (1744-1796)
Robert Ramsay Wright
Robert Ramsay Wright1852–1933 · Scottish zoologist (1852–1933)
James Jameson
James Jameson1856–1888 · Scottish naturalist and traveller in Africa (1856–1888)
George Turnbull
George Turnbull1698–1748 · Scottish philosopher, theologian and writer on education (1698-1748)
William McEwan
William McEwan1827–1913 · Scottish politician and brewer (1827-1913)
JF
John Ferguson1837–1916 · Scottish chemist and bibliographer (1837-1916)
Bob Jack
Bob Jack1876–1943 · Scottish football player and manager (1876-1943)
WM
William Mitchell1781–1854 · Scottish entrepreneur, born 1781

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

Towns its size

Alloa has the 13th most Category A buildings of 136 towns its size

Scottish towns of 6,000–37,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
Dumfries22
St Andrews20
Elgin13
Helensburgh13
Montrose11
Musselburgh11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Linlithgow9
Dalkeith8
Alloa6
#44 of 136for listed buildings per resident (55 per 10,000). Kelso, Kirkwall and Haddington lead.

12 have more. The typical town its size has 1.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Alloa

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Alloa14,689816—
Sauchie6,35750—
Tullibody8,51541—
Clackmannan3,28271—
Alva4,82091—
Fallin2,76920—
Menstrie2,83431—
Tillicoultry4,482130—
In brief

Alloa in brief

The official list counts 81 listed buildings in Alloa, 6 of them in the top category. Its Category A buildings cluster together: 4 of them stand within 400 m of Alloa Tower. Only 12 of the 136 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970.

Most entries on the list, 60%, are houses, terraces and villas. David Allan (1744), Robert Ramsay Wright (1852) and James Jameson (1856) are among the 17 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1972, when 46 of the 81 went on the list. Beyond that, it also has 3 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Alloa’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Alloa?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 81 buildings inside Alloa’s locality: 6 Category A, 41 Category B and 34 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Alloa?

6, including Alloa Tower, Greenside Street, Kilncraigs, Greenside Street, Kilncraigs Despatch Warehouse, Spiers Centre (Former Public Baths and Gymnasium), Primrose Street and Primrose Place, Alloa, The Gean House, (Including Terraces, Forecourt, Walled Garden and Summerhouse), Tullibody Road and Claremont and 25 Kirkgate (Star House).

Are there scheduled monuments in Alloa?

Yes, 3 scheduled monuments, including Alloa Glass Works,glass cone, Alloa,old parish church and Hawk Hill cairn.

How many conservation areas are there in Alloa?

2, covering about 46 hectares of the town. The largest are Alloa Glebe and Old Alloa.

When were Alloa’s buildings listed?

The first in 1960; the most, 46, in 1972.

Are there old photos of Alloa?

Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1895 to 1895, all on this page.

Who was born in Alloa?

Among people born before 1900: David Allan (1744), Robert Ramsay Wright (1852), James Jameson (1856), George Turnbull (1698) and William McEwan (1827).

Alloa 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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