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History of Kincardine · Historic Environment Scotland

53 listed buildings, 30 of them in the second category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Kincardine’s locality, 184 for every 10,000 residents. 23 of Kincardine’s listed buildings are Category C. We have photos of 32 of its listed buildings.

30Category B5on Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth
Listed buildings
53
184 per 10,000 residents
Category A
0
national importance
Category B
30
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures

Kincardine in 33 photos

Nearly every Category A and B building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Commercial Hotel, 2 Elphinstone Street Kincardine-on-ForthCommercial Hotel, 2 Elphinstone Street Kincardine-on-ForthCategory B listedKincardine Rc Chapel 6 Coopers Lane Kincardine-on-ForthKincardine Rc Chapel 6 Coopers Lane Kincardine-on-ForthCategory B listedTulliallan Old Parish ChurchTulliallan Old Parish ChurchCategory B listed2-20 Hawkhill Road Inclusive (All Even Numbers) Kincardine-on-Forth2-20 Hawkhill Road Inclusive (All Even Numbers) Kincardine-on-ForthCategory C listed71, 73 Kirk Street and Tulliallan Session House71, 73 Kirk Street and Tulliallan Session HouseCategory C listed+28See 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 Kincardine’s history is

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

Tulliallan, garden or designed landscape"Primrose Villa', 60 Kilbagie Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B"Shore House". 21 Forth Street, Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B"Ye Olde House 25, 26 Forth Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B'The Orchard' 24 Kilbagie Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category BBurnbrae House Kincardine-on-Forth, Category BCommercial Hotel, 2 Elphinstone Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category BKincardine Church of Scotland Chapel Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category BKincardine House 10 Walker Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category BKincardine Market Cross, High Street, Kincardine-on-Forth, Category BKincardine Rc Chapel 6 Coopers Lane Kincardine-on-Forth, Category BTulliallan Old Parish Church, Category BTulliallan Parish Church, Kirk Street, Kincardine on Forth, Category B14 and 16 Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B16 Regent Street. Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B18, 18A, 20 Kirk St Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B2 High Street and 1 Chapel Street, Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B20 Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B22, 24 Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B22, 24, 26 High Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B26, 28, 30 Keith Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B27 Mercer Street, Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B3, 5 Chapel Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B30 High Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B32 and 34; 36; 38 and 40; 42 High Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B32, 34, 36 Keith Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B36 ('Rosevale'); 38 and 40; 42; 44 Kilbagie Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B38 Keith Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B5, 7, 9 Elphinstone Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B52 Keith Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B54 Keith Street Kincardine-on-Forth, Category B
Category BPark or garden

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

53 listed buildings by grade
0 Category A30 Category B23 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 B

The 30 Category B listed buildings in Kincardine

Buildings of regional importance. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Show the other 18
Historic streets

The Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth and High Street Kincardine-on-Forth have 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.

Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth5 listed · 3 II*
14 and 16 Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth20 Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth22, 24 Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth
High Street Kincardine-on-Forth5 listed · 2 II*
22, 24, 26 High Street Kincardine-on-Forth30 High Street Kincardine-on-Forth
Keith Street Kincardine-on-Forth5 listed · 5 II*
26, 28, 30 Keith Street Kincardine-on-Forth32, 34, 36 Keith Street Kincardine-on-Forth38 Keith Street Kincardine-on-Forth
Elphinstone Street Kincardine-on-Forth3 listed · 1 II*
5, 7, 9 Elphinstone Street Kincardine-on-Forth
Kincardine-on-Forth3 listed · 2 II*
2 High Street and 1 Chapel Street, Kincardine-on-Forth27 Mercer Street, Kincardine-on-Forth

Of the 53 entries, 35 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Kincardine’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas45
Churches, chapels & priories4
Public & civic buildings3
Inns, shops & warehouses1

45 entries (85%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories.

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

23 Category C listed buildings

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

All 23 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
"Lucker" 23 Forth Street Kincardine-on-ForthKincardine-on-Forth, 11 Station RoadMasonic Hall Lodge Tulliallan No 598 8, 10 Elphinstone Street Kincardine-on-Forth11, 13, 15, 17 Elphinstone Street Kincardine-on-Forth12, 14, 16 and 18, 20 High Street Kincardine-on-Forth15-31 Keith Street Inclusive (All Odd Numbers) Kincardine-on-Forth16 Forth Street, Railway Tavern17, 19 Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth2-20 Hawkhill Road Inclusive (All Even Numbers) Kincardine-on-Forth22 Elphinstone Street Kincardine-on-Forth22-38 Hawkhill Road, Kincardine on Forth24, 26 Kirk Street, Kincardine-on-Forth.28 High Street (In Wynd) Kincardine-on-Forth3, 5 Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth4 and 6, 8, 10 High Street Kincardine-on-Forth42 and 48 ('Grangeview') Keith Street Kincardine-on-Forth44 High Street Kincardine-on-Forth44, 46 Kirk Street. Kincardine-on-Forth5 Excise Lane Kincardine-on-Forth50-52 Kirk Street, Kincardine-on-Forth52 Mercer Street Kincardine-on-Forth63, 65 Kilbagie Street Kincardine-on-Forth71, 73 Kirk Street and Tulliallan Session House
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 23% of Kincardine

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

Kincardine 197021 ha
21 hain conservation areas, of 94 ha inside the locality.

49 of the 53 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 Kincardine’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1972

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

1972 · 331979 · 19
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 33 entries were listed in 1972. 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 garden or designed landscape

Tulliallan
TulliallanGarden and designed landscape
Born here

9 notable people born in Kincardine before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose
Sir James Wylie
David Fife
John McFarlane Gray
James Dewar
James Cochrane
William Barclay Peat
Pat Smeaton
Laurie Ogilvie
16001650170017501800185019001950
James Dewar
James Dewar1842–1923 · Scottish chemist and physicist (1842–1923)
Sir James Wylie
Sir James Wylie1766–1854 · Scottish imperial physician and reformer in Russia
JM
James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose1631–1669 · Scottish nobleman and judge
James Cochrane
James Cochrane1852–1905 · Former mayor of Montreal, Quebec (1902-1904)
LO
Laurie Ogilvie1877–1927 · Australian rules footballer (1877-1927)
David Fife
David Fife1805–1877 · Canadian farmer (1805-1877)
William Barclay Peat
William Barclay Peat1852–1936 · British businessman
JG
John McFarlane Gray1831–1908 · Scottish engineer

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Kincardine

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Kincardine2,887530—
Clackmannan3,28271—
Carronshore2,88000—
Grangemouth16,028121—
Alloa14,689816—
Stenhousemuir9,56671—
Sauchie6,35750—
Larbert12,68892—
In brief

Kincardine in brief

Kincardine has 53 listed buildings, including Tulliallan. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Of the whole list, 85% are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 9 people born here before 1900, the best known include James Dewar (1842), Sir James Wylie (1766) and James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose (1631). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1972: 33 of 53. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Category A building.

Questions about Kincardine’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Kincardine?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 53 buildings inside Kincardine’s locality: 0 Category A, 30 Category B and 23 Category C.

Which street in Kincardine has the most listed buildings?

Excise Street Kincardine-on-Forth (5), High Street Kincardine-on-Forth (5) and Keith Street Kincardine-on-Forth (5) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Kincardine?

1, covering about 21 hectares of the town. The largest is Kincardine.

When were Kincardine’s buildings listed?

The first in 1972; the most, 33, in 1972.

Who was born in Kincardine?

Among people born before 1900: James Dewar (1842), Sir James Wylie (1766), James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose (1631), James Cochrane (1852) and Laurie Ogilvie (1877).

Kincardine 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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