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East Leven Street, Burntisland Parish Church (Church of Scotland)East Leven Street, Burntisland Parish Church (Church of Scotland) · Photo: Kim Traynor · CC BY-SA 3.0
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History of Burntisland · Historic Environment Scotland

139 listed buildings, 2 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Burntisland’s locality, 222 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 19 of its listed buildings.

2Category A48Category B1scheduled monument7on Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls
Listed buildings
139
222 per 10,000 residents
Category A
2
national importance
Category B
48
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
In pictures

Burntisland in 20 photos

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Rossend Castle with Boundary Walls and RailingsRossend Castle with Boundary Walls and RailingsCategory B listedHigh Street, Town HallHigh Street, Town HallCategory B listedForth Place, Railway StationForth Place, Railway StationCategory C listedSeaforth Place, Royal Hotel with Steps and RailingsSeaforth Place, Royal Hotel with Steps and RailingsCategory B listedSomerville Square, Masonic Lodge, Dunearn 400Somerville Square, Masonic Lodge, Dunearn 400Category B listed+15See 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 Burntisland’s history is

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

Kirkton,old parish church, scheduled monumentBurntisland Harbour, Category BCromwell Road, St Serf's Episcopal Church with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates, Category BEast Leven Street, Burntisland Parish Church Graveyard, Walls and Gravestones, Category BFerguson Place, Burntisland Primary School with Janitor's House, Gateway, Gatepiers, Boundary Walls and Railings, Category BFormer Station House and Waiting Room, Units 1-11, 12A and 12B, Forth Place, Burntisland, Category BGrange Road, Grange Distillery Cottage with Boundary Walls, Category BGrange Road, Grange Distillery, Long Byre, Category BGrange Road, Grange Distillery, Main Gateway, Gates, Railings and Boundary Walls, Category BGrange Road, Grange Distillery, Old Office House with Boundary Walls, Category BGrange Road, Grange Distillery, Warehouse, Category BHarbour Place, Smugglers Inn, Category BHigh Street, Town Hall, Category BKinghorn Road, Erskine United Free Church with Hall, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates, Category BLochies Road, Beach Tearoom, With Outbuilding, Gatepiers, Railings and Boundary Walls, Category BLochies Road, Seaside Cottage with Boundary Walls, Category BRossend Castle with Boundary Walls and Railings, Category BRossend Gardens, Archway, Category BSeaforth Place, Royal Hotel with Steps and Railings, Category BSomerville Square, Masonic Lodge, Dunearn 400, Category BSt Serf’s Kirk Graveyard, including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates and excluding Scheduled Monument No 828 ‘Kirkton, Old Parish Church’, Kirkton Road, Burntisland, Category B1-3 (Inclusive Nos) Harbour Place, Category B1-6 (Inclusive Nos) Melville Gardens, Category B102 High Street, Public Library, Category B123 Kinghorn Road, Burntisland Bowling Club, Category B139 Aberdour Road, Colinswell House with Gatepiers, Gates, Boundary Walls and Railings, Category B207 High Street Royal Bank of Scotland, Category B225-229 (Odd Nos) High Street, Category B24 East Leven Street, Nellfield with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category B25, 26 and 27 Somerville Square, Category B265-279 (Odd Nos) High Street, East Port Buildings with Gates and Balconies, Category B28 and 29 Somerville Square, Category B3 and 5 Cromwell Road with Boundary Wall and Railings, Category B30-33 (Inclusive Nos) Somerville Square, Category B32-42 (Even Nos) East Leven Street, The Parsonage with Railings and Boundary Wall, Category B34 Cromwell Road, Cromwell House with Conservatory, Outbuildings Boundary Walls Gatepiers and Gates, Category B51 Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls, Category B57-59 (Odd Nos) Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls, Category B61-63 (Odd Nos) Kinghorn Road with Outbuildings and Boundary Walls, Category B65-67 (Odd Nos) Kinghorn Road with Outbuildings and Boundary Walls, Category B68 Kirkbank Road, Nether Grange with Dovecot, Formal Garden, Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls, Category B69 Kinghorn Road, Inchview Hotel with Boundary Walls, Category B71 and 73 High Street, Star Tavern, Category B83 High Street, Bank House Hotel with Boundary Walls, Category B85 Kinghorn Road, Craigholm with Boundary Walls, Category B87 Kinghorn Road with Outbuilding and Boundary Walls, Category B89 and 91 Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls, Category B9, 11, 12 and 15-23 (Odd Nos) Craigkennochie Terrace with Boundary Walls, Railings, Gate and Lamp Stanchion, Category B93 and 93A Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls, Category BEast Leven Street, Burntisland Parish Church (Church of Scotland), Category A6-9 (Inclusive Nos) Broomhill with Boundary Walls and Railings, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument

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139 listed buildings by grade
2 Category A48 Category B89 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 2 Category A listed buildings in Burntisland

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category B

The 48 Category B listed buildings in Burntisland

Buildings of regional importance. 17 are photographed.

Show the other 36
Historic streets

Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls 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.

Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls7 listed · 3 II*
High Street6 listed
Craigkennochie Terrace with Boundary Walls4 listed
Kinghorn Road with Boundary Wall4 listed

Of the 139 entries, 57 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Burntisland’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas107
Walls, gates & bridges23
Public & civic buildings4
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Churches, chapels & priories1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

107 entries (77%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 2 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

89 Category C listed buildings

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

All 89 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Colinswell DovecotCowdenbeath Road, Binn Lodge with Boundary Walls, Gates and GatepiersCraigkennochie Terrace Well-Head StoneEast Leven Street, Free Church Tower and WallsForth Place and Harbour Place, Forth Ports Plc Boundary Walls and RailingsForth Place, Railway StationGrange Road, Grange Distillery, 1 and 2 Grange Flats with Boundary WallsHarbour Place, CaspersHarbour Place, Railway BridgeKinghorn Road, Cemetery Lodge, Hearse House, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Railings and GravestonesKinghorn Road, War Memorial with Boundary WallLammerlaws Road, Albert Cottage with Boundary and Terrace Walls and PiersLammerlaws Road, Victoria Cottage with Boundary and Terrace Walls and PierLinks Place, Crown BarLinks Place, Drinking FountainManse Lane, Grayforth House with Stables, Gig House and Boundary WallRossend Castle, GazeboWest Broomhill Road, Brae House, With Outbuilding and Boundary WallsWest Broomhill Road, Railway Bridge1 and 2 Kinghorn Road and 10 Cromwell Road with Boundary Wall and Railings1-3 (Inclusive Nos) Craigkennochie Terrace with Boundary Walls101-107 (Odd Nos) High Street109-129 (Odd Nos) High Street112 and 114 High Street12-22 (Even Nos) Kirkgate128 Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls129-131 (Odd Nos) Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls13 Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls130 Kinghorn Road with Boundary Wall132 Kinghorn Road with Boundary Wall134 Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls135-175 (Odd Nos) High Street136 Kinghorn Road with Boundary Wall144 and 146 High Street Stephen and Son Mano's149 and 151 Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls15-19 (Odd Nos) Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls16 Cromwell Road, With Outbuildings, Boundary Wall and Railings166-180 (Even Nos) High Street177-181 (Odd Nos) High Street182 and 184 High Street183 High Street186 and 188 High Street190 High Street192-208 (Even Nos) High Street and Links Place195 and 197 High Street199-205 (Odd Nos) High Street2-8 (Even Nos) Somerville Street and Kirkgate21-41 (Odd Nos) Kirkgate213-217 (Odd Nos) High Street217- 223 (Odd Nos) High Street231-237 (Odd Nos) High Street239-251 (Odd Nos) High Street24 Kirkgate24-34 (Even Nos) Kirkbank Road with Boundary Walls25-31 (Odd Nos) Craigkennochie Terrace with Boundary Walls26 and 28 Kirkgate, Leven Villa with Out-House, Boundary Wall, Gatepiers, Gates and Railings29-33 Kinghorn Road, Links View with Outbuldings, Boundary Walls3 and 5 Kinghorn Road and 12 Cromwell Road with Boundary Walls and Railings32 Cromwell Road, Cromwell Bank with Outbuildings and Boundary Walls33 and 35 Cromwell Road with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers33-37 (Inclusive Nos) Harbour Place and 1-6 (Inclusive Nos) Forth Place33-37 (Odd Nos) Craigkennochie Terrace with Boundary Walls35 and 37 Kinghorn Road with Boundary Wall and Railings37 and 39 Cromwell Road with Boundary Walls39 and 41 Craigkennochie Terrace with Boundary Walls39-43 (Odd Nos) Kinghorn Road with Boundary Wall and Mosaic Path39-45 (Odd Nos) Kirkbank Road with Boundary Walls4-9 (Inclusive Nos) Harbour Place40-48 (Even Nos) High Street, Including Former Green Tree Tavern43 Craigkennochie Terrace with Boundary Walls45 Kinghorn Road, Links House with Gazebo, Boundary Walls and Railings45-49 (Odd Nos) Craigkennochie Terrace with Boundary Walls and Railings47 Kirkbank Road with Gatepier and Boundary Wall47-49 (Odd Nos) Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls49 Kirkbank Road5 and 7 Craigkennochie Terrace with Boundary Walls5 and 7 East Leven Street with Boundary Wall53-55 (Odd Nos) Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls55 Craigkennochie Terrace with Boundary Walls59-65 (Odd Nos) High Street6-10 (Even Nos) Kirkgate67 East Leven Street, Pipe Band Hall7, 7A and 9 Kinghorn Road with Boundary Wall77-79 (Odd Nos) High Street88-94 (Even Nos) High Street95 Kinghorn Road with Outbuildings and Boundary Walls95-99 (Odd Nos) High Street96-100 (Even Nos) High Street97-119 (Odd Nos) Somerville Street
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 13% of Burntisland

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

Burntisland 197029 ha
29 hain conservation areas, of 221 ha inside the locality.

108 of the 139 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

More than half of Burntisland’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1995

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

1995 · 711977 · 331972 · 22
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 1 entry was listed in 1970. 71 came in 1995. Only 0 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 scheduled monument

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

Kirkton,old parish church
Kirkton,old parish churchEcclesiastical: church
Born here

9 notable people born in Burntisland before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Robert Pitcairn
John Catnach
William Bald
Robert Boog Watson
Henry Brougham Farnie
David Danskin
Bob Bonthron
Percival Lancaster
John Frail
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DD
David Danskin1863–1948 · Scottish footballer (1863-1948)
BB
Bob Bonthron1880– · Professional footballer (1880-?)
RW
Robert Boog Watson1823–1910 · Scottish malacologist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland (18…
Henry Brougham Farnie
Henry Brougham Farnie1836–1889 · British writer (1836-1889)
RP
Robert Pitcairn1752–1770 · Scottish midshipman in the Royal Navy
JC
John Catnach1769–1813 · Printer and publisher, songwriter and poet
WB
William Bald1789–1857 · British surveyor, cartographer and civil engineer
Percival Lancaster
Percival Lancaster1880–1937 · Scottish writer (1880-1937)

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

Towns its size

Burntisland has the 47th most Category A buildings of 247 towns its size

Scottish towns of 3,000–16,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
Helensburgh13
Montrose11
Banff11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Linlithgow9
Dalkeith8
Jedburgh8
Rothesay7
Dunbar7
Burntisland2
#18 of 247for listed buildings per resident (222 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.

46 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Burntisland

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Burntisland6,2591392—
Kinghorn2,944571—
Kirkcaldy and Dysart51,13528410—
Dalgety Bay and Hillend9,45272—
Lochgelly7,15760—
Crossgates2,99300—
Cowdenbeath and Lumphinnans11,97920—
Cardenden and Auchterderran5,26690—
In brief

Burntisland in brief

Burntisland has 139 listed buildings, 2 of them in the top category, including East Leven Street, Burntisland Parish Church (Church of Scotland). Only 46 of the 247 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Most entries on the list, 77%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 9 people born here before 1900, the best known include David Danskin (1863), Bob Bonthron (1880) and Robert Boog Watson (1823). The big year was 1995, when 71 of the 139 went on the list. Beyond that, it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Burntisland’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Burntisland?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 139 buildings inside Burntisland’s locality: 2 Category A, 48 Category B and 89 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Burntisland?

2, including East Leven Street, Burntisland Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and 6-9 (Inclusive Nos) Broomhill with Boundary Walls and Railings.

Which street in Burntisland has the most listed buildings?

Kinghorn Road with Boundary Walls (7), High Street (6) and Craigkennochie Terrace with Boundary Walls (4) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Burntisland?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Kirkton,old parish church.

How many conservation areas are there in Burntisland?

1, covering about 29 hectares of the town. The largest is Burntisland.

When were Burntisland’s buildings listed?

The first in 1970; the most, 71, in 1995.

Who was born in Burntisland?

Among people born before 1900: David Danskin (1863), Bob Bonthron (1880), Robert Boog Watson (1823), Henry Brougham Farnie (1836) and Robert Pitcairn (1752).

Burntisland 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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