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Bo'ness Station Including Former Haymarket Train Shed, Former Wormit Station Building, Signal Box and Gantry, Footbridge, Goods Office, Goods Yard, Water Tank and Lamp StandardsBo'ness Station Including Former Haymarket Train Shed, Former Wormit Station Building, Signal Box and Gantry, Footbridge, Goods Office, Goods Yard, Water Tank and Lamp Standards · Photo: Dbrooke1829 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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History of Bo'ness · Historic Environment Scotland

95 listed buildings, 6 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Bo'ness’s locality, 64 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 5 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 28 of its listed buildings.

6Category A40Category B5scheduled monuments10on South Street
Listed buildings
95
64 per 10,000 residents
Category A
6
national importance
Category B
40
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
5
nationally important sites
In pictures

Bo'ness in 28 photos

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North Street, The HippodromeNorth Street, The HippodromeCategory A listedKinneil House including footbridge over Gil Burn, gatepiers to west and east and boundary walls, Bo'nessKinneil House including footbridge over Gil Burn, gatepiers to west and east and boundary walls, Bo'nessCategory A listed14 - 20 (Even Nos) Union Street and 3 - 11 (Odd Nos) Register Street, Former Custom House14 - 20 (Even Nos) Union Street and 3 - 11 (Odd Nos) Register Street, Former Custom HouseCategory B listedMarket Street, Clydesdale BankMarket Street, Clydesdale BankCategory B listedScotland's Close, Bo'ness Public Library, Former Old West Pier TavernScotland's Close, Bo'ness Public Library, Former Old West Pier TavernCategory B listed+23See 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 Bo'ness’s history is

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

Antonine Wall and fortlet, 430m E to 850m WSW of Kinneil House, scheduled monumentAntonine Wall, N of Kinneil Primary School, scheduled monumentAntonine Wall, Roman temporary camp 105m NNW of Holland Cottage, scheduled monumentKinneil House, shell midden 350m W of, scheduled monumentRoman temporary camp, 40m SW, 75m SW, 75m N and 80m NE of Bents Cottage, scheduled monumentBallantine Bo'ness Iron Company Limited, Warehouse, Pattern Shop, Office and Caretakers Accommodation Only, Links Road and Stark's Brae, Bo'ness, Category BBraehead, Craigmailen United Free Church Including Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, Category BBridgeness Lane Bridgeness Cottage Including Boundary Walls, Category BBridgeness, Harbour Road, The Tower Gardens, Bridgeness Tower, Category BBridgeness, Kinningars Park Dovecot Including Wall and Capped Pit Shaft, Category BCarriden Brae, Carriden Parish Church (Church of Scotland) Including Gate Piers and Boundary Walls, Category BCarriden Old Church and Graveyard Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls, Category BErngath Road, The Knowe Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls, Category BGlebe Park Bandstand (Off Stewart Avenue), Category BGrahamsdyke Avenue, Caer Edin Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls, Category BGrange Terrace, St Andrews Parish Church Including Hall and Boundary Walls, Category BKinneil, 2 - 4 (Inclusive Nos) Duchess Anne Cottages Including Boundary Walls, Category BKinneil, 5 Duchess Anne Cottages, Kinneil Museum Including Boundary Wall, Category BKinneil, 6-8 (Inclusive Nos) Duchess Anne Cottages, Category BMarket Street, Clydesdale Bank, Category BMarket Street,K6 Telephone Kiosk, Category BMuirhouses Acre Road the Library House Including Boundary Walls and Ancillary Structures, Category BMuirhouses, 18 and 19 Carriden Brae Including Boundary Walls, Category BMuirhouses, 7 Hope Cottages and 8 Hope Cottages, Cleveland Including Boundary Walls, Category BMuirhouses, Acre Road, Grangewells, Category BMuirhouses, Carriden Brae, Old Schoolhouse and the Old School House Including Boundary Walls and Ancillary Structures, Category BPanbrae Road, Old Kirk (Church of Scotland) Including Hall and Boundary Walls, Category BProvidence Brae, Former St Mary's Roman Catholic Church Including Boundary Wall and Gatepier, Category BScotland's Close, Bo'ness Public Library, Former Old West Pier Tavern, Category BStewart Avenue, Masonic Lodge Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BStewart Avenue, Town Hall and Former Carnegie Library Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category B13 South Street, Former Tolbooth, Category B14 - 20 (Even Nos) Union Street and 3 - 11 (Odd Nos) Register Street, Former Custom House, Category B15 North Street and 27 Waggon Road, Category B15A and 15B Cadzow Crescent, Tidings Hill Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls and Ancillary Structures, Category B191-199 (Odd Nos) Corbiehall Incuding Boundary Walls, Category B26 Grange Terrace, Roman House Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls and Ancillary Structure, Category B29 - 43 (Odd Nos) Waggon Road and 9 North Street, The Granary, Category B37- 43 (Odd Nos) North Street and 7- 9 Scotland's Close, Category B39 - 49 (Odd Nos) Scotland's Close, Category B43 - 51 (Odd Nos) Corbiehall Including Boundary Walls, Category B54 - 60 (Even Nos) South Street, Category B58 - 62 (Even Nos) Union Street, Former Foundry Offices, Category B73 Grahamsdyke Road Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls, Category B74 North Street, Category BBo'ness Station Including Former Haymarket Train Shed, Former Wormit Station Building, Signal Box and Gantry, Footbridge, Goods Office, Goods Yard, Water Tank and Lamp Standards, Category AChurch Wynd, Graveyards Including Boundary Walls, Category AJames Watt's Cottage and boiler at Kinneil House, Bo'ness, Category AKinneil House including footbridge over Gil Burn, gatepiers to west and east and boundary walls, Bo'ness, Category ANorth Street, The Hippodrome, Category A49 North Street,Dymock's Buildings with Scotland's Close Warehouse and Service Court, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument

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95 listed buildings by grade
6 Category A40 Category B49 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 6 Category A listed buildings in Bo'ness

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. 5 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category B

The 40 Category B listed buildings in Bo'ness

Buildings of regional importance. 23 are photographed.

Show the other 28
What’s protected

Most of Bo'ness’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas59
Walls, gates & bridges28
Public & civic buildings6
Street furniture1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

59 entries (62%) 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

49 Category C listed buildings

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

All 49 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Bridgeness Road, Old Grange Schoolhouse, Including Gatepiers and Boundary WallsCarriden Brae, Grange Lodge Including Gate Piers and Boundary WallsDean Road Cemetery Including Gatepiers, Railings and Boundary WallsGrange Loan, Grange School Including Gatepiers and Boundary WallsHarbour Road, Plaque Including Boundary WallKinneil, Kinneil House, BridgeKinneil, Kinneil House, Walled GardenMuirhouses, 1 and 2 Hope CottagesMuirhouses, 20 Carriden Brae and Carriden Cottage Including Boundary Walls and Ancillary StructuresMuirhouses, 3 and 4 Hope CottagesMuirhouses, 5 and 6 Hope Cottages Including Boundary WallsNorth Street and Market Street, Jubilee FountainNorth Street, Clock and Lamp StandardStewart Avenue, War Memorial1 - 11 (Odd Nos) Seaview Place1 Market Street1 and 3 South Street with 12 North Street101 and 103 Corbiehall Including Boundary Wall109 and 111 Dean Road and 43, 45 and 47 Linlithgow Road, Seaforth Including Boundary Walls11 South Street12-16 (Even Nos) Corbiehall Including Boundary Walls, Gates and Railings and Ancillary Structures12A, 14A, 16A and Nos 16-24 (Even Nos) Craigfoot Terrace Including Boundary Walls15 Seaview Place, Former Bank and Burgh Chambers Including Boundary Wall and Gatepier15 and 17 South Street17 Cadzow Crescent, Former Nurses' Home Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls19 Church Wynd2 - 6 (Even Nos) Main Street,The Bo'ness Tavern23 - 29 (Odd Nos) South Street, Anderson Building24 - 32 (Even Nos) South Street25, 27 and 29 North Street26 East Pier Street,Post Office Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers31 and 33 South Street31, 33 and 35 North Street Including Boundary Walls35 - 41 (Odd Nos) South Street37 Scotland's Close37 Stewart Avenue, Former Liberal Hall42 - 54 (Even Nos), North Street, Anchor Tavern43 and 45 South Street44 South Street, Turf Tavern47 and 49 South Street5 and 7 South Street with 14 North Street50 and 52 North Street50 and 52 South Street57 North Street62 South Street64, 64A and 66 South Street68 and 70 South Street8 and 10 Main Street,Ye Olde Carriers Quarters9 South Street
Conservation areas

3 conservation areas cover 8.6% of Bo'ness

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

Bo'ness Town Centre 197035 ha
Grange, Bo'ness 197021 ha
Muirhouses 19704 ha
59 hain conservation areas, of 687 ha inside the locality.

The first, Bo'ness Town Centre, Grange, Bo'ness and Muirhouses, were designated in 1970; the newest, Muirhouses, in 1970. 69 of the 95 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

34 of Bo'ness’s 95 listed buildings were added in 1980

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

1980 · 342004 · 232006 · 13
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The first 8 entries were listed in 1971, 1 of the 6 Category A buildings among them. 34 came in 1980, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. Only 1 has 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

5 scheduled monuments

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

Kinneil House, shell midden 350m W ofPrehistoric domestic and defensive: shell midden
Born here

14 notable people born in Bo'ness before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

James Gardiner
Alexander Aikman
George Husband Baird
William Young
James Brunton Stephens
Grace Cadell
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Matthew Steele
Archie McKenzie
George W. Easton
Harcus Strachan
James Martin
Bobby McFarlane
Andrew Miller
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Grace Cadell
Grace Cadell1855–1918 · Early woman Scottish doctor
BM
Bobby McFarlane1897–1971 · Scottish footballer (1897-1971)
HM
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall1867–1941 · British writer
JM
James Martin1893–1940 · British association football player (1893-1940)
AM
Andrew Miller1899– · Scottish footballer
James Gardiner
James Gardiner1686–1745 · Scottish soldier (168_-1745)
George Husband Baird
George Husband Baird1761–1840 · Minister
James Brunton Stephens
James Brunton Stephens1835–1902 · Australian poet (1835-1902)

Everyone born in Bo'ness → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Towns its size

Bo'ness has the 13th most Category A buildings of 135 towns its size

Scottish towns of 6,000–37,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
Dumfries22
St Andrews20
Elgin13
Helensburgh13
Montrose11
Musselburgh11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Linlithgow9
Dalkeith8
Bo'ness6
#40 of 135for listed buildings per resident (64 per 10,000). Kelso, Kirkwall and Haddington lead.

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Bo'ness

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Bo'ness14,875956—
Linlithgow12,5221599—
Polmont5,04451—
Grangemouth16,028121—
Maddiston3,83500—
Cairneyhill2,65710—
Brightons4,04810—
Redding3,81210—
In brief

Bo'ness in brief

Bo'ness has 95 listed buildings, 6 of them in the top category, including Bo'ness Station Including Former Haymarket Train Shed, Former Wormit Station Building, Signal Box and Gantry, Footbridge, Goods Office, Goods Yard, Water Tank and Lamp Standards. Church Wynd, Graveyards Including Boundary Walls sits at the heart of it all, with 3 of the town’s Category A buildings within 400 m. Only 12 of the 135 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. On South Street alone there are 10 listed buildings.

Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970. Of the whole list, 62% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 14 people born here before 1900, the best known include Grace Cadell (1855), Bobby McFarlane (1897) and Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1867).

Questions about Bo'ness’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Bo'ness?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 95 buildings inside Bo'ness’s locality: 6 Category A, 40 Category B and 49 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Bo'ness?

6, including Bo'ness Station Including Former Haymarket Train Shed, Former Wormit Station Building, Signal Box and Gantry, Footbridge, Goods Office, Goods Yard, Water Tank and Lamp Standards, Church Wynd, Graveyards Including Boundary Walls, James Watt's Cottage and boiler at Kinneil House, Bo'ness, Kinneil House including footbridge over Gil Burn, gatepiers to west and east and boundary walls, Bo'ness, North Street, The Hippodrome and 49 North Street,Dymock's Buildings with Scotland's Close Warehouse and Service Court.

Are there scheduled monuments in Bo'ness?

Yes, 5 scheduled monuments, including Antonine Wall and fortlet, 430m E to 850m WSW of Kinneil House, Antonine Wall, N of Kinneil Primary School, Antonine Wall, Roman temporary camp 105m NNW of Holland Cottage and Kinneil House, shell midden 350m W of.

Is Bo'ness a World Heritage Site?

Part of Bo'ness 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 Bo'ness?

3, covering about 59 hectares of the town. The largest are Bo'ness Town Centre and Grange, Bo'ness.

When were Bo'ness’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 34, in 1980.

Who was born in Bo'ness?

Among people born before 1900: Grace Cadell (1855), Bobby McFarlane (1897), Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1867), James Martin (1893) and Andrew Miller (1899).

Bo'ness 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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