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Leswalt High Road, The High Kirk of Stranraer (Church of Scotland) Including Graveyard, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and RailingsLeswalt High Road, The High Kirk of Stranraer (Church of Scotland) Including Graveyard, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and Railings · Photo: Billy McCrorie · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Stranraer · Historic Environment Scotland

73 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Stranraer’s locality, 75 for every 10,000 residents. 41 of Stranraer’s listed buildings are Category C. We have photos of 15 of its listed buildings and 1 old view of the town.

3Category A29Category B5on Hanover Street
Listed buildings
73
75 per 10,000 residents
Category A
3
national importance
Category B
29
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
In pictures

Stranraer in 16 photos and old views

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

George Street and Castle Street, Stranraer CastleGeorge Street and Castle Street, Stranraer CastleCategory A listedLondon Road, Stair Park BandstandLondon Road, Stair Park BandstandCategory B listedMarket Street, Harbour Office with WeighbridgeMarket Street, Harbour Office with WeighbridgeCategory C listedLondon Road, L'aperitif (Formerly Ivy House)London Road, L'aperitif (Formerly Ivy House)Category B listedLewis Street, Lewis Street Gospel HallLewis Street, Lewis Street Gospel HallCategory B listed+11See 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

Stranraer in old photos

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

Castle Kennedy, Stranraer, Scotlandc. 1890
VictorianCastle Kennedy, Stranraer, 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 Stranraer’s history is

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

Bellevilla Road, Anne House Including Outbuildings, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and Railings, Category BChurch Street, Dunbae House, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings, Category BChurch Street, Graveyard Including Boundary Walls and Gate, Category BChurch Street, Old Parish Church (Church of Scotland) Including Lamp Standards, Category BFisher Street, Wellington House and 5, The Cottage Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates, Category BGlebe Street, Park House Gatepiers and Boundary Walls, Category BLeswalt High Road, The High Kirk of Stranraer (Church of Scotland) Including Graveyard, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and Railings, Category BLewis Street, Lewis Street Gospel Hall, Category BLewis Street, St Ninian's Church (Church of Scotland) Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates, Category BLondon Road, L'aperitif (Formerly Ivy House), Category BLondon Road, St Andrew's Church (Church of Scotland) and Graveyard Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and Railings, Category BLondon Road, Stair Park Bandstand, Category BOff Glebe Street, Park House, Category BStranraer Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court, including war memorial, gatepiers and boundary walls, Lewis Street, Stranraer, Category B1 Academy Street Including Boundary Walls, Railings and Gate, Category B12 Church Street, Formerly Bank of Scotland, Category B14 King Street, Category B15 Bridge Street Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category B17 North Strand Street, Category B25 London Road Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gate and Railings, Category B28 and 30 Harbour Street with Warehouse to Rear, Including Boundary Walls, Category B31 Church Street, Category B37 London Road, Helenslea Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gate Railings and Outhouse to Rear, Category B39 Lewis Street Including Boundary Walls, Category B45 and 47 London Road, Wenova and Merslaugh, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and Railings, Category B49 George Street, George Hotel Including Postbox, Category B49 London Road, Brunswick House Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gate and Railings, Category B6 Lewis Street Including Boundary Walls, Category B9 Bridge Street, Former Grain Store Including Boundary Walls, Category BGeorge Street and Castle Street, Stranraer Castle, Category A18 and 20 King Street, Category A55 George Street, Stranraer Museum Formerly Old Town Hall, Category A
Category ACategory B

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

73 listed buildings by grade
3 Category A29 Category B41 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 Stranraer

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 29 Category B listed buildings in Stranraer

Buildings of regional importance. 12 are photographed.

Show the other 17
Historic streets

Hanover 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.

Hanover Street5 listed
Gate and Railings4 listed · 2 II*
George Street3 listed
Railings and Gate3 listed · 1 II*

Of the 73 entries, 42 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Stranraer’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas51
Walls, gates & bridges17
Public & civic buildings3
Churches, chapels & priories1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

51 entries (70%) 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

41 Category C listed buildings

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

All 41 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Ailsa Crescent, Darrochmhor Including Boundary Walls and GatepiersBridge Street, Stranraer Parish Church Hall Including Graveyard and Boundary WallsBroadstone Road, Briarbrae Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gate and GarageDalrymple Street, Reformed Presbyterian Church and Church Hall Including Graveyard, Boundary Walls and GatepiersLondon Road, Morland (Formerly Bowie Cottage) Including Boundary Walls and GatepiersLondon Road, Stair Park Gatepiers and GatesLondon Road, Westwood,Viewfield, And Woodside Cottage Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and RailingsMarket Street, Harbour Office with WeighbridgeSouth Strand Street, FountainSpringwell Road, Encliffe House Including Boundary Walls, Gates and Outhouse10 Market Street11 Market Street12 and 14 Castle Street15-21 (Odd Nos) Church Street2 Hanover Street2-6 (Even Nos) George Street21 Lewis Street Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gate and Railings23 Lewis Street Including Boundary Walls and Gatepier23, 25 and 27 (Odd Nos) Church Street25 Lewis Street Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gate and Railings30 George Street32 Charlotte Street34 Bridge Street34-38 (Even Nos) George Street4 and 6 Bridge Street, The Grapes, Including Courtyard Outbuildings at Rear4 and 6 Hanover Street40-44 (Even Nos) George Street45 and 47 George Street5 St John Street5 and 7 High Street57 Hanover Street58 George Street, The Golden Cross6 Academy Street Including Boundary Walls, Railings and Gate65-67A George Street (Odd Nos) Including Boundary Walls77 Hanover Street and 1 Hanover Square8 Hanover Street8 and 10 Academy Street Including Boundary Walls, Railings and Gate8 and 10 Castle Street8 and 10 George Street85- 89 (Odd Nos) George Street89 and 91 Hanover Street
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 4.8% of Stranraer

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

Stranraer 197020 ha
20 hain conservation areas, of 416 ha inside the locality.

52 of the 73 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

26 of Stranraer’s 73 listed buildings were added in 1998

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

1998 · 261972 · 251979 · 19
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 25 entries were listed in 1972, 2 of the 3 Category A buildings among them. 26 came in 1998. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Born here

7 notable people born in Stranraer before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

John Murray
Thomas de Courcy Hamilton
Jane Taylour
Thomas C. MacMillan
Leander Starr Jameson
James Mavor
David Broadfoot
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Leander Starr Jameson
Leander Starr Jameson1853–1917 · Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (1853-1917)
Jane Taylour
Jane Taylour1827–1905 · Scottish suffragist and women's movement campaigner
James Mavor
James Mavor1854–1925 · Canadian historian (1854-1925)
Thomas de Courcy Hamilton
Thomas de Courcy Hamilton1825–1908 · Scottish military officer (1825–1908); recipient of the Victoria Cross
Thomas C. MacMillan
Thomas C. MacMillan1850–1935 · American politician (1850–1935)
DB
David Broadfoot1899–1953 · Scottish naval hero (1899–1953)
JM
John Murray1786–1851 · Science writer, lecturer, traveller and Scriptural geologist

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

Towns its size

Stranraer has the 33rd most Category A buildings of 186 towns its size

Scottish towns of 4,000–24,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
St Andrews20
Helensburgh13
Montrose11
Banff11
Musselburgh11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Linlithgow9
Dalkeith8
Jedburgh8
Stranraer3
#53 of 186for listed buildings per resident (75 per 10,000). Banff, Anstruther and Rothesay lead.

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

In brief

Stranraer in brief

Stranraer has 73 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category. George Street and Castle Street, Stranraer Castle sits at the heart of it all, with 3 of the town’s Category A buildings within 400 m. Only 32 of the 186 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Of the whole list, 70% are houses, terraces and villas. Leander Starr Jameson (1853), Jane Taylour (1827) and James Mavor (1854) are among the 7 people born here before 1900.

Questions about Stranraer’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Stranraer?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 73 buildings inside Stranraer’s locality: 3 Category A, 29 Category B and 41 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Stranraer?

3, including George Street and Castle Street, Stranraer Castle, 18 and 20 King Street and 55 George Street, Stranraer Museum Formerly Old Town Hall.

Which street in Stranraer has the most listed buildings?

Hanover Street (5), Gate and Railings (4) and George Street (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Stranraer?

1, covering about 20 hectares of the town. The largest is Stranraer.

When were Stranraer’s buildings listed?

The first in 1972; the most, 26, in 1998.

Are there old photos of Stranraer?

Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1890 to 1890, all on this page.

Who was born in Stranraer?

Among people born before 1900: Leander Starr Jameson (1853), Jane Taylour (1827), James Mavor (1854), Thomas de Courcy Hamilton (1825) and Thomas C. MacMillan (1850).

Stranraer 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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