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Culloden House Stables and Yard WallCulloden House Stables and Yard Wall · Photo: Ted and Jen from Birmingham, England · CC BY 2.0
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History of Culloden · Historic Environment Scotland

6 listed buildings, 2 of them in the top category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Culloden’s locality, 16 for every 10,000 residents. Category B covers 3 of Culloden’s listed buildings. We have photos of 3 of its listed buildings and 1 old view of the town.

Listed buildings
6
16 per 10,000 residents
Category A
2
national importance
Category B
3
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures

Landmarks of Culloden

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

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

Culloden in old photos

1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

Culloden, The Cairn & Graves of the Clans1903
EdwardianCulloden, The Cairn & Graves of the ClansPhoto: 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 Culloden’s history is

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

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 Culloden

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 3 Category B listed buildings in Culloden

Buildings of regional importance. 1 is photographed.

Category C

1 Category C listed building

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

All 1 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 5.7% of Culloden

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

Culloden: House Policies 19708 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 143 ha inside the locality.

2 of the 6 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.

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

Culloden HouseGarden and designed landscape

1 Inventory battlefield

Towns its size

Culloden has the 27th most Category A buildings of 195 towns its size

Scottish towns of 1,000–9,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Culloden2
#110 of 195for listed buildings per resident (16 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Culloden

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Culloden3,69962—
Smithton2,90500—
Westhill5,68130—
Milton of Leys3,16800—
Inverness48,25729914—
Nairn9,576632—
In brief

Culloden in brief

The official list counts 6 listed buildings in Culloden, 2 of them in the top category, including Culloden House, Gate Piers and Gardeners' Bothy.. Only 26 of the 195 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. The rest is about typical: the list grew between 1971 and 1986.

Questions about Culloden’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Culloden?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 6 buildings inside Culloden’s locality: 2 Category A, 3 Category B and 1 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Culloden?

2, including Culloden House Stables and Yard Wall and Culloden House, Gate Piers and Gardeners' Bothy..

How many conservation areas are there in Culloden?

1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Culloden: House Policies.

Are there old photos of Culloden?

Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1903 to 1903, all on this page.

Culloden 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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