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History of Falkirk · Historic Environment Scotland

100 listed buildings, 5 of them in the top category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Falkirk’s locality, 29 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 7 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 21 of its listed buildings and 3 old views of the town.

5Category A52Category B7scheduled monuments14on High Street
Listed buildings
100
29 per 10,000 residents
Category A
5
national importance
Category B
52
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
7
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures

Falkirk in 27 photos and old views

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Callendar Park, Callendar HouseCallendar Park, Callendar HouseCategory A listedOld Parish Church and Burial Ground Including Boundary Walls and RailingsOld Parish Church and Burial Ground Including Boundary Walls and RailingsCategory A listedCanal Inn Canal StreetCanal Inn Canal StreetCategory C listedFalkirk and Counties Trustee Savings Bank High Street and 1 Cow WyndFalkirk and Counties Trustee Savings Bank High Street and 1 Cow WyndCategory C listed42 and 44 Vicar Street, Firkins Bar and 1-9 (Odd Numbers) Melville Street42 and 44 Vicar Street, Firkins Bar and 1-9 (Odd Numbers) Melville StreetCategory C listed+22See 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

Falkirk from 1898 to 1936

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

Camelon 6–5 Falkirk, 1897–98 Stirlingshire Cup Final, from the Glasgow Herald, 28 February 1898c. 1898
VictorianCamelon 6–5 Falkirk, 1897–98 Stirlingshire Cup Final, from the Glasgow Herald, …Photo: Glasgow Herald · Public domain
Falkirk and District Co-operative Society coal lorry circa 19291929
Between the warsFalkirk and District Co-operative Society coal lorry circa 1929Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain
Women and children with a Falkirk and District Co-operative Society bicycle in 19361936
Between the warsWomen and children with a Falkirk and District Co-operative Society bicycle in …Photo: 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 Falkirk’s history is

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

Callendar Park, garden or designed landscapeAntonine Wall, 170m NNW to 305m NE of Falkirk High School, scheduled monumentAntonine Wall, Callendar Park, Falkirk, scheduled monumentAntonine Wall, Lime Road to Tamfourhill, scheduled monumentAntonine Wall, W and E of Watling Lodge, Tamfourhill, scheduled monumentAntonine Wall, Watling Lodge fortlet, Tamfourhill, Falkirk, scheduled monumentForth and Clyde Canal: Castlecary - M9 Motorway, scheduled monumentUnion Canal, River Avon to Greenbank, scheduled monumentArnotdale Camelon Road, Category BBank of Scotland 39-43 Vicar Street, Category BCallendar Park, Callendar House Sundial, Category BCallendar Park, Callendar House, Factor's House, Category BCallendar Park, Callendar House, Small Bridge on South Axis of House, Category BCallendar Park, Callendar House, Stable Block, Including Dovecot, Cobbled Yard, Implement Shed, Boundary Walls and Gates, Category BCallendar Park, Callendar House, Stable Court, Including Cobbled Yard, Category BCallendar Park, Glenbrae Lodge and Gates, Category BCow Wynd Tattie Kirk, Category BCross Well. High Street, Category BFalkirk Parish Churchyard Gate, Category BFormer Post Office (Front Block Only) 45, 47 Vicar Street, Category BFormer Rosebank Distillery, Forth and Clyde Canal, Camelon Road, Falkirk, Category BFormer Sheriff Court including boundary walls, gatepiers and lamp stands, 1 Hope Street, Falkirk, Category BGrahamston Church of Scotland, Bute St., Category BHatherley Hotel Arnothill, Category BHope Street, St Francis-Xavier Rc Church, Category BKilns House Kilns Road, Category BLint Riggs, East Side (Odd Nos) 32-34 High Street and New Market Bar Newmarket Street, Category BMayfield, Maggie Woods Loan and Arnothill Lane, Category BOffices (Russel and Aitken, A M Cowan) East Side of King's Court and North Side of Bean Row at Rear of 9 Cow Wynd, Category BOrchard Hotel Kerse Lane, Category BParish Church Churchyard, Category BPublic Library Hope Street, Category BRoyal Bank Buildings 2 High Street and 1 Newmarket Street, Category BRoyal Bank Buildings 25-29 Newmarket Street and 20 Vicar Street, Category BRoyal Bank, High Street, 1-9 Kirk Wynd and 27, 29 Manor Street, Category BSlamannan Road Lochgreen Hospital Main Block Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category BSt Modan's Church Cochrane Avenue, Category BTamfourhill Road, Oakdene, Including Gatepiers and Gate, Category BTamfourhill Road, Watling Lodge, And Stables Including Gatepiers and Garden Steps, Category BThornhill Road, Saint James' Parish Church Including Halls, Boundary Walls, Gates and Railings, Category BUnion Canal Tunnel, Category BUnion Inn, Forth and Clyde Canal, 2 Portdownie, Camelon, Falkirk, Category BWellington Statue Newmarket Street, Category BWest Church West Bridge Street, Category B100, 100A High Street, Category B102, 104 High Street, Category B106-112 High Street, Category B113-117 High Street, Category B124-128 High Street, Category B129-131 High Street, Category B138-140 and 140A High Street, Category B142, 144, 146, 148 High Street, Falkirk, Category B147, 149 High Street, 2 Cow Wynd, Category B150, 152, 154, 156 High Street, Falkirk, Category B17 Arnothill, Eriden, Category B20-24 High Street, 2-16 (Even Numbers) Lint Riggs and Wilkies, Newmarket Street, Falkirk, Category B29 - 35 (Odd Nos) Vicar Street, Vicar Chambers, Category B52 - 58 (Even Nos) Vicar Street, Category B58, 60 Graham's Road, Category B9 Hope Street, Category BCallendar Park, Callendar House, Category ACallendar Park, Callendar House Mausoleum, Category AFalkirk Town Steeple. High Street, Category AGlasgow Road, Camelon, St Mary of the Angels Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery, Category AOld Parish Church and Burial Ground Including Boundary Walls and Railings, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monumentPark or garden

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

100 listed buildings by grade
5 Category A52 Category B43 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 5 Category A listed buildings in Falkirk

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

Category B

The 52 Category B listed buildings in Falkirk

Buildings of regional importance. 13 are photographed.

Show the other 40
What’s protected

Most of Falkirk’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas56
Walls, gates & bridges20
Inns, shops & warehouses8
Churches, chapels & priories7
Public & civic buildings5
Memorials, crosses & tombs4

56 entries (56%) are houses, terraces and villas. 7 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 5 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

43 Category C listed buildings

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

All 43 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Callendar Park, Callendar House, Atrium House (Former Gardener's Cottage), Including GatepiersCallendar Park, Callendar House, Dry BridgeCallendar Park, KennelsCallendar Park, Policy WallsCallendar Park, WellheadCanal Inn Canal StreetChrist Church Episcopal Church Kerse LaneChristian Institute, 16, 18 Newmarket Street and 1, 3 Glebe StreetCottage at Lock 9 Forth & Clyde CanalDomestic air raid shelter to the rear of 68-70 Haugh Street, Bainsford, FalkirkFalkirk and Counties Trustee Savings Bank High Street and 1 Cow WyndHodge Street and Cockburn Street, Erskine Parish Church (Church of Scotland) Including Church Hall and Boundary WallMount House Pleasance GardensRed Lion Inn Bankside at Bainsford BridgeRoyal Hotel High StreetSocial Work Department (Former Municipal Bldgs) Newmarket StreetSouth African War Memorial Newmarket StreetSt Andrews Church of Scotland Including Halls Newmarket StreetSt John's Church (former Camelon Parish Church) and graveyard including boundary walls and gatepiers, Glasgow Road, Camelon, FalkirkTechnical Institute Princes Street & Park Street1 Bank Street and 19, 21 Kirk Wynd, Former Co-Operative Department Store102-104 Grahams Road, Former Oddfellows Hall105-111 High Street119-121 High Street122 High Street123-127 High Street Falkirk Herald Building130 High Street132-136A High Street150-154 Grahams Road, The Star Inn151-155 High Street157-161 High Street19 and 19A Arnothill, Arnothall, Including Former Stables, Boundary Walls, Railings and Gatepiers20 - 24 (Even Nos) Newmarket Street22, 24 Canal Street24-38 Vicar Street Corner of Newmarket Street and 2-12 Melville Street25 and 27 Vicar Street with 4 and 6 Princes Street42 and 44 Vicar Street, Firkins Bar and 1-9 (Odd Numbers) Melville Street42-46 (Even Nos) Newmarket Street46 - 50 (Even Nos) Vicar Street5 Booth Place7 Booth Place86, 88 High Street and 2 Kirk Wynd9-11 Vicar Street
Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 2.7% of Falkirk

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

Arnothill and Dollar Park 197029 ha
Falkirk Town Centre 197013 ha
41 hain conservation areas, of 1,550 ha inside the locality.

The first, Arnothill and Dollar Park and Falkirk Town Centre, were designated in 1970; the newest, Falkirk Town Centre, in 1970. 66 of the 100 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

44 of Falkirk’s 100 listed buildings were added in 1972

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

1972 · 441979 · 211960 · 9
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 9 entries were listed in 1960, 2 of the 5 Category A buildings among them. 44 came in 1972, 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

7 scheduled monuments

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

Antonine Wall, 170m NNW to 305m NE of Falkirk High School
Antonine Wall, Callendar Park, Falkirk
Union Canal, River Avon to GreenbankIndustrial: inland water

1 garden or designed landscape

Callendar Park
Callendar ParkGarden and designed landscape

1 Inventory battlefield

Born here

36 notable people born in Falkirk before 1900

The 20 best known on one timeline, earliest first.

James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
John Young
James Walker
Charles Napier
William Young
Alexander Williamson
Elizabeth Caradus
John Aitken
Henry Cairns
James Sharp
Robert Dollar
William Kidston
James Gray
Harry Simpson
George Forrest
Tommy Dunn
Harry Taylor
Jack MacDonald
Jimmy Archibald
John McDonald
170017501800185019001950
John Aitken
John Aitken1839–1919 · Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer (1839-1919)
GF
George Forrest1873–1932 · Scottish botanist (1873-1932)
Charles Napier
Charles Napier1786–1860 · British Royal Navy admiral (1786-1860)
James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll1726–1778 · Scottish Earl (1726-1778)
James Walker
James Walker1781–1862 · Civil engineer from Scotland (1781-1862)
AW
Alexander Williamson1829–1890 · British missionary and botanical collector, active in China (1829 - 1…
John Young
John Young1773–1837 · Scottish-born merchant, author and political figure in Nova Scotia (1…
William Young
William Young1799–1887 · Nova Scotia politician and jurist (1799-1887)

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Falkirk

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Falkirk34,6371005—
Hallglen3,15810—
Stenhousemuir9,56671—
Carronshore2,88000—
Redding3,81210—
Larbert12,68892—
Grangemouth16,028121—
Brightons4,04810—
In brief

Falkirk in brief

The official list counts 100 listed buildings in Falkirk, 5 of them in the top category, including Callendar Park, Callendar House. High Street alone has 14 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970. Of the whole list, 56% are houses, terraces and villas.

John Aitken (1839), George Forrest (1873) and Charles Napier (1786) are among the 36 people born here before 1900. It also has 7 scheduled monuments, the archaeology and ruins the law protects. The rest is about typical: it has 5 Category A buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 3).

Questions about Falkirk’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Falkirk?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 100 buildings inside Falkirk’s locality: 5 Category A, 52 Category B and 43 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Falkirk?

5, including Callendar Park, Callendar House, Callendar Park, Callendar House Mausoleum, Falkirk Town Steeple. High Street, Glasgow Road, Camelon, St Mary of the Angels Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery and Old Parish Church and Burial Ground Including Boundary Walls and Railings.

Are there scheduled monuments in Falkirk?

Yes, 7 scheduled monuments, including Antonine Wall, 170m NNW to 305m NE of Falkirk High School, Antonine Wall, Callendar Park, Falkirk, Antonine Wall, Lime Road to Tamfourhill and Antonine Wall, W and E of Watling Lodge, Tamfourhill.

Is Falkirk a World Heritage Site?

Part of Falkirk 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 Falkirk?

2, covering about 41 hectares of the town. The largest are Arnothill and Dollar Park and Falkirk Town Centre.

When were Falkirk’s buildings listed?

The first in 1960; the most, 44, in 1972.

Are there old photos of Falkirk?

Yes: 3 public-domain photos and postcards from 1898 to 1936, all on this page.

Who was born in Falkirk?

Among people born before 1900: John Aitken (1839), George Forrest (1873), Charles Napier (1786), James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll (1726) and James Walker (1781).

Falkirk 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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