Walls & gates · listed 1971Gosford Gateway West Lodge and Policy Walls
Longniddry Main Street Reading Room · Photo: Adamcoulson · CC BY-SA 4.0–Not graded
History of Longniddry · Historic Environment Scotland
27 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top category
On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Longniddry’s locality, 104 for every 10,000 residents. Category C covers 14 of Longniddry’s listed buildings.
Listed buildings
27
104 per 10,000 residents
Category A
1
national importance
Category B
12
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
1 garden or designed landscape
The map
Where Longniddry’s history is
Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.
Category ACategory BPark or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
27 listed buildings by grade
1 Category A12 Category B14 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 Longniddry
Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Category B
The 12 Category B listed buildings in Longniddry
Buildings of regional importance.
House · listed 1993Longniddry 1 and 2 Kitchener Crescent
House · listed 1993Longniddry 3 and 4, 13 and 14 Kitchener Crescent
House · listed 1993Longniddry 5 and 6, 11 and 12, 15 and 16, 17 and 18 Kitchener Crescent
House · listed 1993Longniddry 7 and 8, 9 and 10 Kitchener Crescent
House · listed 1993Longniddry Farm Steading
House · listed 1993Longniddry Farmhouse
House · listed 1993Longniddry Gosford Road Harmony
Walls & gates · listed 1971Longniddry House with Outbuilding Garden Walls Wellhead and_Kirk Ruin
Walls & gates · listed 1993Longniddry Lyars Road Eventyr with Retaining Walls Lodge and Gatepiers
Public · listed 1993Longniddry School
House · listed 1993Longniddry the Dean
House · listed 201318 Links Road, Longniddry Golf Club Including Terracing
What’s protected
Most of Longniddry’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas19
Public & civic buildings4
Walls, gates & bridges3
Inns, shops & warehouses1
19 entries (70%) are houses, terraces and villas.
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
14 Category C listed buildings
This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 14 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Longniddry 11 Main Street RoseleaLongniddry 12 Old School RoadLongniddry 14 and 15 Main StreetLongniddry 7 Main StreetLongniddry 8 Main StreetLongniddry 9 and 10 Main StreetLongniddry Lyars Road WoodburnLongniddry Main Street GrainfootLongniddry Main Street Longniddry InnLongniddry Main Street Reading RoomLongniddry Mains, Cottages and SteadingLongniddry Old School Road GreydykesLongniddry, 25 Kings Road, West Court Including Garages and Entrance Forecourt3-6 Inclusive Nos Longniddry Farm Cottages
How the list grew
More than half of Longniddry’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1993
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1993 · 23
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1971, 1 of the 1 Category A buildings among them. 23 came in 1993. 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.
1 garden or designed landscape
Gosford HouseGarden and designed landscape
Towns its size
Longniddry has the 30th most Category A buildings of 152 towns its size
Scottish towns of 1,000–6,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.
Longniddry1
#32 of 152for listed buildings per resident (104 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.
29 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Longniddry
| Town | People | Listed | Category A | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longniddry | 2,598 | 27 | 1 | — |
| Cockenzie | 5,237 | 13 | 2 | — |
| Tranent | 12,235 | 24 | 0 | — |
| Prestonpans | 10,623 | 30 | 6 | — |
| Haddington | 11,364 | 281 | 9 | — |
| Ormiston | 2,587 | 18 | 0 | — |
| Wallyford | 4,493 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Gullane | 2,897 | 24 | 3 | — |
In brief
Longniddry in brief
The official list counts 27 listed buildings in Longniddry, 1 of them in the top category, including Longniddry Main Street Reading Room. Only 29 of the 152 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. Most entries on the list, 70%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1993, when 23 of the 27 went on the list.
Questions about Longniddry’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Longniddry?
Historic Environment Scotland lists 27 buildings inside Longniddry’s locality: 1 Category A, 12 Category B and 14 Category C.
What are the Category A listed buildings in Longniddry?
One: Gosford Gateway West Lodge and Policy Walls.
When were Longniddry’s buildings listed?
The first in 1971; the most, 23, in 1993.
Longniddry 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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