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History of Dollar · Historic Environment Scotland

115 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Dollar’s locality, 403 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Dollar, 79 are Category C. We have photos of 11 of its listed buildings and 3 old views of the town.

Listed buildings
115
403 per 10,000 residents
Category A
1
national importance
Category B
35
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
In pictures

Dollar in 14 photos and old views

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.

Through time

Dollar from 1890 to 1890

3 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

Burnside, Dollar, Scotlandc. 1890
VictorianBurnside, Dollar, ScotlandPhoto: Photochrom Print Collection · Public domain
Castle Campbell, Dollar, Scotlandc. 1890
VictorianCastle Campbell, Dollar, ScotlandPhoto: Library of Congress Catalog · Public domain
General view, Dollar, Scotlandc. 1890
VictorianGeneral view, Dollar, ScotlandPhoto: Photochrom Print Collection · 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 Dollar’s history is

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

Bridge Street, K6 Telephone Kiosk, Category BBroomrig, Category BBurnside House, 24 West Burnside, Dollar, Category BClydesdale Bank Bridge Street, Category BDevongrove Harviestoun Road, Category BDrinking Fountain and Trough by Roadside at Broomrig, Category BFaerwood Cottages (East and West), Category BHarviestoun Road, K6 Telephone Kiosk, Category BMiddle Bridge over Dollar Burn, East and West Burnside, Category BMount Devon House Back Road, Category BOchilton, Category BOld Parish Church, Dollar and Adjoining Building at Churchyard Gate Within the Churchyard of Present Parish Church., Category BParish Church of St Columba, Dollar., Category BRectory 12 Harviestoun Road, Category BSeberham No.1 Bridge Street, Category BThe Horseshoe, Category BThe Session House 3 and 4 East Burnside, Category BWoodcot, Back Road, Category B1 and 3 Devon Road, Category B1 and 3 Hillfoot Road, Category B1, 3, 5 Academy Place, Category B13 Mcnabb Street (Speedwell), Category B14, 16, 18, 20 Back Road, Category B15 and 17 High Street, Category B19 Hillfoot Road (Broomieknowe Cottage), Category B19 and 21 High Street, Category B2,4,6 Academy Place, Category B24, 26 and 28 Harviestoun Road, Category B25 Hillfoot Road (The Broomieknowe), Category B26 Bridge Street (Homefield), Category B27 Hillfoot Road (The Knowe), Category B3 Chapel Place (Park House), Category B6 East Burnside (Argyll Cottage), Category B8 Bridge Street, Category B86 Bridge Street, Category BDollar Academy, Category A
Category ACategory B

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

115 listed buildings by grade
1 Category A35 Category B79 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 Category A listed building in Dollar

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.

Category B

The 35 Category B listed buildings in Dollar

Buildings of regional importance. 7 are photographed.

Show the other 23
Historic streets

Bridge Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

Bridge Street13 listed · 2 II*
High Street9 listed · 2 II*
East Burnside6 listed
Harviestoun Road6 listed · 1 II*
Hillfoot Road4 listed · 1 II*
Sorley's Brae3 listed
West Burnside3 listed

Of the 115 entries, 75 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Dollar’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas94
Walls, gates & bridges11
Public & civic buildings4
Churches, chapels & priories4
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Street furniture1

94 entries (82%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 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

79 Category C listed buildings

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

All 79 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
BellmontBirchgroveBurnbrae Lodge, Kellybridge, Near DollarCastle Campbell HallCastle Campbell HotelChurch HallDollar Manse Manse RoadDollar West ChurchEast Gates, Academy Place Dollar AcademyKellybridge, BridgeMuckhart Road, KellysideNorth Bridge over Dollar Burn, High Street - Back RoadPrimary and Infant School Manor Park RoadSouth East Gates Facing Cairnpark Street, Dollar AcademySouth West Gates Facing Mcnabb Street Dollar AcademySpringhillSt James the Greater Church (Episcopal)StrathdevonTyneham Cottage, Harviestoun Road, DollarWest Church ManseWest Gates Facing Mylne Avenue Dollar Academy1 Chapel Place1 East Burnside1 Manse Road, Keepers Cottage in Corner of Graveyard1 Mcnabb Street1 Thorntonbank Road1 and 3 Muckart Road (Gladstone Terrace)10 Harviestoun Road10 Sorley's Brae10, 12 and 14 Bridge Street11 East Burnside11 Hillfoot Road12 East Burnside (Glen Lodge)12, 14 and 16 Sorley's Brae13 Bridge Street13 East Burnside14 East Burnside (Norwood)14 and 16 Harviestoun Road16-24 Bridge Street17 Sorley's Brae17 West Burnside18 Harviestoun Road18 and 19 West Burnside2 Argyll Street2 East Burnside2 Harviestoun Road2 High Street (Burnside)2 Manse Road20 and 22 Harviestoun Road20, 21 and 22 West Burnside21 Hillfoot Road23 Hillfoot Road25 and 27 High Street27-53 Bridge Street28-48 Bridge Street3 Manor House Road (Ingleside)31 and 33 High Street32 High Street (South View)34 High Street36 and 38 High Street4 Argyll Street4 High Street4 Manse Road (Eastfield)4-8 Harviestoun Road (Charlotte Place)40 and 42 High Street (No.40 Baldinnes) (No.42 the Luggy)5 East Burnside5-23 Bridge Street50-62 Bridge Street55-59 Bridge Street6 Bridge Street6 High Street6-14 Dewar Street61 Bridge Street64 and 66 Bridge Street7 and 8 East Burnside (Oakbank)70 Bridge Street (Sycamore)8 High Street9 Mcnabb Street9 and 10 East Burnside
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 27% of Dollar

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

Dollar38 ha
38 hain conservation areas, of 142 ha inside the locality.

95 of the 115 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 Dollar’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1977

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

1977 · 96
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 5 entries were listed in 1960, 1 of the 1 Category A buildings among them. 96 came in 1977, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Towns its size

Dollar has the 34th most Category A buildings of 166 towns its size

Scottish towns of 1,000–7,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Dollar1
#5 of 166for listed buildings per resident (403 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.

33 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Dollar

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Dollar2,8531151—
Tillicoultry4,482130—
Sauchie6,35750—
Clackmannan3,28271—
Alva4,82091—
Alloa14,689816—
Tullibody8,51541—
Kincardine2,887530—
In brief

Dollar in brief

The official list counts 115 listed buildings in Dollar, 1 of them in the top category, including Dollar Academy. Only 33 of the 166 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. Bridge Street alone has 13 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it.

Of the whole list, 82% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1977: 96 of 115. The rest is about typical: Andrew Clark (1856) and Euphemia Somerville (1860) were born here before 1900.

Questions about Dollar’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Dollar?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 115 buildings inside Dollar’s locality: 1 Category A, 35 Category B and 79 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Dollar?

One: Dollar Academy.

Which street in Dollar has the most listed buildings?

Bridge Street (13), High Street (9) and East Burnside (6) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Dollar?

1, covering about 38 hectares of the town. The largest is Dollar.

When were Dollar’s buildings listed?

The first in 1960; the most, 96, in 1977.

Are there old photos of Dollar?

Yes: 3 public-domain photos and postcards from 1890 to 1890, all on this page.

Dollar 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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