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History of Annan · Historic Environment Scotland

68 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Annan’s locality, 78 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 16 of its listed buildings and 4 old views of the town.

3Category A44Category B2scheduled monuments9on High Street
Listed buildings
68
78 per 10,000 residents
Category A
3
national importance
Category B
44
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
In pictures

Annan in 18 photos and old views

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

5, 7, 9 High Street ("Old Academy")5, 7, 9 High Street ("Old Academy")Category A listed12 Downie's Wynd, Market Hall12 Downie's Wynd, Market HallCategory B listedBank Street, Former Library and Public HallBank Street, Former Library and Public HallCategory B listedChurch Street, 1-12 (Inclusive Nos) Cumberland Terrace, 4 Solway Street, Including Boundary Walls and GatepiersChurch Street, 1-12 (Inclusive Nos) Cumberland Terrace, 4 Solway Street, Including Boundary Walls and GatepiersCategory B listedBank Street, St Andrews Greenknowe Erskine Parish Church (Church of Scotland)Bank Street, St Andrews Greenknowe Erskine Parish Church (Church of Scotland)Category B listed+13See 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

Annan from 1890 to 1903

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

On the Annan water, Moffat, Scotlandc. 1890
VictorianOn the Annan water, Moffat, ScotlandPhoto: Photochrom Print Collection · Public domain
The bridge, Annan, Scotlandc. 1890
VictorianThe bridge, Annan, ScotlandPhoto: Photochrom Print Collection · Public domain
Town Hall, Annan, Scotlandc. 1890
VictorianTown Hall, Annan, ScotlandPhoto: Photochrom Print Collection · Public domain
Burn's Counry. On the Annan Water1903
EdwardianBurn's Counry. On the Annan WaterPhoto: 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 Annan’s history is

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

Annan old graveyard, recumbent grave marker 45m ENE of town hall, scheduled monumentMote of Annan, motte-and-bailey castle, 70m SSW of Moat House, scheduled monumentBank Street, Former Library and Public Hall, Category BBank Street, St Andrews Greenknowe Erskine Parish Church (Church of Scotland), Category BChurch Street, 1-12 (Inclusive Nos) Cumberland Terrace, 4 Solway Street, Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BEdnam Street, Adult Training Centre (Former Academy) Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category BGreencroft Wynd, Greencroft House (Crombie's Workshop), Category BHigh Street Annan Parish Churchyard, Statue to Edward Irving, Category BHigh Street, Annan Old Churchyard, Walls and Gatepiers, Category BHigh Street, Dovecot to Rear of Queensberry Arms, Category BHigh Street, Town Hall and Freestanding Lamps, Category BPort Street Quays, Category BPort Street Warehouse Opposite Welldale Mill, Category BPort Street, Braehouse, Category BSolway Street, Seaforth House and Gatepiers and Railings, Category BSt John's Road, St John's Episcopal Church, Gates and Gatepiers, Category BStation Road, Annan Academy, Category BStation Road, Annan Station Including Signal Box, Category B1 Downie's Wynd, Category B1, 3 High Street, Category B11, 13 Church Street, Category B117, 119 High Street, Category B12 Downie's Wynd, Market Hall, Category B121 High Street, Argyle House, Category B14 Ednam Street, Category B15 Bank Street, Erskine Church, Screen Walls and Gatepiers, Category B15 Port Street Albert Hall, Category B19 Bank Street, Post Office, Category B2 Bank Street, Category B2, 4 Battery Street, Category B2, 4, 6 Carlyle Place, Category B2-10 (Even Nos) High Street, Blue Bell Inn Including Former Stables Court, Category B20 Scott Street, Category B28, 30 High Street, Annan Savings Bank, Category B30, 32 Ednam Street, Category B33 Butts Street and 39 English Street, Category B43, 45 High Street, Category B47, 49 High Street, Queensberry Arms Hotel, Category B6 Butts Street Including Gatepiers and Vaulted Cellars, Category B6 Wellington Street, Category B67, 69, 71 High Street and 1 Bank Street, Category B73 and 75 High Street, Category B74-78 (Even Nos) High Street, Category B75-87 (Odd Nos) Port Street and Welldale Mill Adjoining, Category B8, 10 Bank Street, Category B80 High Street, Category BHigh Street Annan Parish Church and Churchyard Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, (Church of Scotland), Category A27, 29 Bank Street and Gatepiers and Railings, Category A5, 7, 9 High Street ("Old Academy"), Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument

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

68 listed buildings by grade
3 Category A44 Category B21 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 3 Category A listed buildings in Annan

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. 2 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category B

The 44 Category B listed buildings in Annan

Buildings of regional importance. 14 are photographed.

Show the other 32
What’s protected

Most of Annan’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas51
Walls, gates & bridges6
Public & civic buildings5
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Churches, chapels & priories1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Street furniture1

51 entries (75%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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

21 Category C listed buildings

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

All 21 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Bruce Street and North Street, Greenbank with Lodge, Gates and GatepiersFairfield Place, West SideGreencroft Wynd DovecotHigh Street, Summerhouse at Rear of Queensberry HotelLong MeadowStandalane, Newington HouseStation Road Central HotelWatchill House1 Solway Street18 Scott Street, Former Stables, (Now Property of Seaforth Cottage)18-26 (Even Nos) Port Street Including Low Wing Adjoining at South2, 4 Port Street28 Port Street, Scaurbank and Gatepiers and Boundary Walls3-11 (Odd Nos) Bank Street35, 37 and 39 Butts Street, Annan50, 52 High Street, Royal Bank of Scotland64 High Street66, 68 High Street77, 79, 81 High Street82 High Street, Buck Inn83, 85, 87 High Street
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 3.1% of Annan

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

Annan 197011 ha
11 hain conservation areas, of 342 ha inside the locality.

42 of the 68 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 Annan’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1988

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

1988 · 351971 · 28
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 28 entries were listed in 1971, 3 of the 3 Category A buildings among them. 35 came in 1988, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. Only 0 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.

Born here

9 notable people born in Annan before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Thomas Blacklock
George Johnston
Hugh Clapperton
Edward Irving
William Irving
Andrew Scott Irving
David Payne
James Thomson
James Kerr
170017501800185019001950
Hugh Clapperton
Hugh Clapperton1788–1827 · Royal Navy officer and explorer
Edward Irving
Edward Irving1792–1834 · Scottish clergyman (1792-1834)
DP
David Payne1843–1894 · Scottish landscape painter (1843-1894)
James Thomson
James Thomson1846–1915 · Scottish footballer (19th century)
George Johnston
George Johnston1764–1823 · British Marines officer and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales (1…
Thomas Blacklock
Thomas Blacklock1721–1791 · Scottish writer; (1721-1791)
James Kerr
James Kerr1894–1978 · Footballer (1894-1978)
William Irving
William Irving1816–1872 · American steamship captain (1816–1872)

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

Towns its size

Annan has the 32nd most Category A buildings of 198 towns its size

Scottish towns of 3,000–22,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
St Andrews20
Helensburgh13
Montrose11
Banff11
Musselburgh11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Linlithgow9
Dalkeith8
Jedburgh8
Annan3
#54 of 198for listed buildings per resident (78 per 10,000). Banff, Anstruther and Rothesay lead.

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Annan

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Annan8,697683—
Gretna3,435200—
Silloth2,54280B
Lockerbie4,411381—
Longtown2,17670B−
Wigton5,396480B+
In brief

Annan in brief

The official list counts 68 listed buildings in Annan, 3 of them in the top category, including 5, 7, 9 High Street ("Old Academy"). Only 31 of the 198 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. High Street alone has 9 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Of the whole list, 75% are houses, terraces and villas. Hugh Clapperton (1788), Edward Irving (1792) and David Payne (1843) are among the 9 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1988: 35 of 68. The rest is about typical: it also has 2 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Annan’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Annan?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 68 buildings inside Annan’s locality: 3 Category A, 44 Category B and 21 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Annan?

3, including High Street Annan Parish Church and Churchyard Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, (Church of Scotland), 27, 29 Bank Street and Gatepiers and Railings and 5, 7, 9 High Street ("Old Academy").

Are there scheduled monuments in Annan?

Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Annan old graveyard, recumbent grave marker 45m ENE of town hall and Mote of Annan, motte-and-bailey castle, 70m SSW of Moat House.

How many conservation areas are there in Annan?

1, covering about 11 hectares of the town. The largest is Annan.

When were Annan’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 35, in 1988.

Are there old photos of Annan?

Yes: 4 public-domain photos and postcards from 1890 to 1903, all on this page.

Who was born in Annan?

Among people born before 1900: Hugh Clapperton (1788), Edward Irving (1792), David Payne (1843), James Thomson (1846) and George Johnston (1764).

Annan 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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