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History of Bearsden · Historic Environment Scotland

64 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Bearsden’s locality, 22 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 7 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 12 of its listed buildings.

3Category A27Category B7scheduled monuments
Listed buildings
64
22 per 10,000 residents
Category A
3
national importance
Category B
27
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
7
nationally important sites
In pictures

Bearsden in 15 photos

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Kilmardinny HouseKilmardinny HouseCategory A listedBearsden Station,Roman bath-house 400m NE ofBearsden Station,Roman bath-house 400m NE ofScheduled monumentMaryhill Road, Killermont BridgeMaryhill Road, Killermont BridgeCategory B listedGarscube MillGarscube MillCategory B listedDrymen Road, War MemorialDrymen Road, War MemorialCategory B listed+10See 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.

The map

Where Bearsden’s history is

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

Antonine Wall, Antonine Road to Rosslyn Road, scheduled monumentAntonine Wall, Ferguston Muir to New Kilpatrick Cemetery, scheduled monumentAntonine Wall, Iain Road to path N of Westbourne Crescent, scheduled monumentAntonine Wall, New Kilpatrick Cemetery, scheduled monumentAntonine Wall,Bearsden,Roman fort, scheduled monumentBearsden Station,Roman bath-house 400m NE of, scheduled monumentForth and Clyde Canal: Blairdardie Road - Netherton Farm, scheduled monumentBearsden Primary School (former New Kilpatrick Higher Grade Public School) including gatepiers, railings and boundary walls and excluding gymnasium annexe to southeast, Roman Road, Bearsden, Category BBearsden, Kilmardinny Crescent, White Lodge, Category BBoclair Road, New Kilpatrick Cemetery, Including Gatepiers, Gates, Boundary Wall and Pathways, Category BBridge in Garscube Park, Category BCamstradden Drive East, Pinehurst with Terrace Walls, Category BCarse View Drive, 10, Category BCarse View Drive, 5 Glen Haven, Category BCarse View Drive, 9 Highhowe, Category BDrymen Road, 22 Carrick Arden, Category BDrymen Road, Bearsden North (Church of Scotland) Church Including Church Hall and Gatepiers, Category BDrymen Road, War Memorial, Category BGarscube Mill, Category BLochend Farm, 21 Lochend Road, Category BLower Kilmardinny House, Milngavie Road, Category BMaryhill Road, Killermont Bridge, Category BSchaw Hospital Drymen Road, Category BSwitchback Road, Canniesburn Hospital, Original Hospital Blocks, Lodge and Pair Houseblocks, Category BWest End Square Maryhill Road, Category BWesterton, 25-39 (Odd Nos) Maxwell Avenue, Category BWesterton, 51-65 (Odd Nos) Maxwell Avenue, Category BWesterton, 67-71 (Odd Nos) Maxwell Avenue, Category B100 Milngavie Road, Bearsden Council Chambers, Category B24 Boclair Crescent, Blaven Including Garden Walls and Gatepiers, Category B6 Kilmardinny Crescent, Green Ridge Including Terrace Walls, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category B6 Roman Road Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates, Category B8A Camstradden Drive East Including Terrace Walls and Gatepiers, Category B9 Ralston Road, Category BKilmardinny House, Category ANew Kilpatrick Parish Church, Bearsden, Category A27 Boclair Road Including Ancillary Building, Terrace Walls and Gatepiers, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument

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64 listed buildings by grade
3 Category A27 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 3 Category A listed buildings in Bearsden

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 27 Category B listed buildings in Bearsden

Buildings of regional importance. 10 are photographed.

Inns & shops · listed 1978Garscube MillPhoto: Richard Sutcliffe · CC BY-SA 2.0
Show the other 15
What’s protected

Most of Bearsden’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas49
Walls, gates & bridges7
Public & civic buildings4
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Inns, shops & warehouses1
Churches, chapels & priories1

49 entries (77%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 3 Category A buildings.

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
Bearsden Cross, 102-116 (Even Nos) Drymen Road, 2-22 (Even Nos) New Kirk Road and 1-11 (Odd Nos) Roman RoadBearsden, 44 Pendicle Road Including Boundary Wall and GatepiersCanniesburn Square, BearsdenCarse View Drive, 1Carse View Drive, 2 OverdaleCarse View Drive, 6Carse View Drive, 7Carse View Drive, 8Drymen Road, MilepostsKilmardinny Avenue, Kilmardinny Lodge Including Boundary Walls and PiersMcfarlane Road, Horse TroughMcfarlane Road, MilepostMilngavie Road, 156 BournemouthMilngavie Road, MilepostRoman Court including gatepiers and excluding conservatory to west, detached outbuildings to east and garage to north, 17 Boclair Road, BearsdenWesterton 17-31 (Odd Nos) NorthviewWesterton 2, 4 Stirling AvenueWesterton, 1-15 (Odd Nos) NorthviewWesterton, 10, 12 Stirling AvenueWesterton, 101-107 (Odd Nos) Maxwell AvenueWesterton, 14, 16 Stirling AvenueWesterton, 2 -16 (Even Numbers) NorthviewWesterton, 41-49 (Odd Nos) Maxwell AvenueWesterton, 46-56 (Even Nos) Maxwell AvenueWesterton, 58-64 (Even Nos) Maxwell AvenueWesterton, 6, 8 Stirling AvenueWesterton, 73-79 (Odd Nos) Maxwell AvenueWesterton, 81-87 (Odd Nos), Maxwell AvenueWesterton, 89-99 (Odd Nos) Maxwell Avenue18 Boclair Road, Romanhurst, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates19 Boclair Road2 Chesters Road, Scotus College Including Archway and Former Stable Block, Boundary Wall and Gatepiers25 Macfarlane Road, The Waterboard House, Including Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Gates36 and 38 Roman Road, Registrar's Office
Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 16% of Bearsden

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

Old Bearsden 1970154 ha
Westerton Garden Suburb 19703 ha
157 hain conservation areas, of 965 ha inside the locality.

The first, Old Bearsden and Westerton Garden Suburb, were designated in 1970; the newest, Westerton Garden Suburb, in 1970. 37 of the 64 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

18 of Bearsden’s 64 listed buildings were added in 1988

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

1988 · 182002 · 131979 · 11
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 3 entries were listed in 1971, 2 of the 3 Category A buildings among them. 18 came in 1988, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. Only 2 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.

World Heritage

Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Antonine Wall)UNESCO World Heritage Site: the town touches its mapped area, which can include a buffer zone

7 scheduled monuments

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

Antonine Wall, New Kilpatrick Cemetery
RomanAntonine Wall,Bearsden,Roman fortRoman: Antonine Wall
Bearsden Station,Roman bath-house 400m NE of
Forth and Clyde Canal: Blairdardie Road - Netherton Farm
Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Bearsden

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Bearsden28,507643—
Milngavie12,758140—
Faifley4,78500—
Clydebank26,220131—
Duntocher and Hardgate6,57330—
Renfrew23,812162—
Erskine14,857111—
Bishopbriggs23,75980—
In brief

Bearsden in brief

The official list counts 64 listed buildings in Bearsden, 3 of them in the top category, including New Kilpatrick Parish Church, Bearsden. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970. Of the whole list, 77% are houses, terraces and villas. It also has 7 scheduled monuments, the archaeology and ruins the law protects. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has 3 Category A buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 2); and Jessie M. King (1875) was born here before 1900.

Questions about Bearsden’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Bearsden?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 64 buildings inside Bearsden’s locality: 3 Category A, 27 Category B and 34 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Bearsden?

3, including Kilmardinny House, New Kilpatrick Parish Church, Bearsden and 27 Boclair Road Including Ancillary Building, Terrace Walls and Gatepiers.

Are there scheduled monuments in Bearsden?

Yes, 7 scheduled monuments, including Antonine Wall, Antonine Road to Rosslyn Road, Antonine Wall, Ferguston Muir to New Kilpatrick Cemetery, Antonine Wall, Iain Road to path N of Westbourne Crescent and Antonine Wall, New Kilpatrick Cemetery.

Is Bearsden a World Heritage Site?

Part of Bearsden lies within the area Historic Environment Scotland maps for Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Antonine Wall), which can include a buffer zone around the site itself.

How many conservation areas are there in Bearsden?

2, covering about 157 hectares of the town. The largest are Old Bearsden and Westerton Garden Suburb.

When were Bearsden’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 18, in 1988.

Bearsden 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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