AChurch · listed 1971Tulloch Street, St Clements Church (C of S Parish Church), Gatepiers and Burial GroundPhoto: Andrew Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0
Tulloch Street, St Clements Church (C of S Parish Church), Gatepiers and Burial Ground · Photo: Andrew Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Dingwall · Historic Environment Scotland
25 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top category
On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Dingwall’s locality, 47 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 11 of its listed buildings.
Listed buildings
25
47 per 10,000 residents
Category A
1
national importance
Category B
21
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
In pictures
Dingwall in 12 photos
Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Dingwall Castle, 20m SW of The Castle HouseScheduled monument
Dingwall Railway Station. Down and Up Platform Ranges, Down Platform Staff ShelterCategory B listed
Ferry Road, Ross Memorial HospitalCategory B listed
High Street, Hydro BoardCategory B listed
Castle Street, The Castle and Roderick Maclennan MonumentCategory B listed+7See all photosPhotos 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 Dingwall’s history is
Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.
Category ACategory BScheduled monument
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
25 listed buildings by grade
1 Category A21 Category B3 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 Category A listed building in Dingwall
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 21 Category B listed buildings in Dingwall
Buildings of regional importance. 10 are photographed.
BPublic · listed 1986Dingwall Railway Station. Down and Up Platform Ranges, Down Platform Staff ShelterPhoto: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0
BPublic · listed 1992Ferry Road, Ross Memorial HospitalPhoto: Mike Pennington · CC BY-SA 2.0
BHouse · listed 1983High Street, Hydro BoardPhoto: Dave Fergusson · CC BY-SA 2.0
BPublic · listed 1971Castle Street, The Castle and Roderick Maclennan MonumentPhoto: Craig Wallace · CC BY-SA 2.0
BPublic · listed 1983Dingwall Sheriff Court including former police station, prison, gatepiers and railings, Ferry Road, DingwallPhoto: Dave Fergusson · CC BY-SA 2.0
BChurch · listed 1983High Street, Free Church of ScotlandPhoto: Bill Henderson · CC BY-SA 2.0
BMemorials · listed 1971High Street, Mercat CrossPhoto: kim traynor · CC BY-SA 2.0
BPublic · listed 1971High Street, Town HallPhoto: Dave Conner from Inverness, Scotland · CC BY 2.0
BMemorials · listed 1983Mitchell Hill Macdonald MemorialPhoto: Mary and Angus Hogg · CC BY-SA 2.0
BWalls & gates · listed 1971Tulloch Castle and Arched Tunnel EntrancePhoto: Peter Moore · CC BY-SA 2.0
Public · listed 1983Castle Street St Ninians
Public · listed 1978Castle Street, Dovecote
Show the other 9
Public · listed 1986Dingwall Station Road Warehouse
House · listed 1989Greenhill Street Park Garage (Former Park Cottage)
Inns & shops · listed 1971High Street, Clydesdale Bank, Park House
House · listed 1983High Street, The Retreat
Inns & shops · listed 1983High Street, The Royal Bank of Scotland
Walls & gates · listed 1971Tulloch Farm, Steading, Houses and Garden Wall
Memorials · listed 1971Tulloch Street, Obelisk
House · listed 197163, 64 High Street
House · listed 19839 Hill Street
What’s protected
The largest group of Dingwall’s listed buildings is public buildings
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Public & civic buildings8
Houses, terraces & villas7
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Memorials, crosses & tombs3
Churches, chapels & priories2
Walls, gates & bridges2
7 entries (28%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 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
3 Category C listed buildings
This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 3 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 1.4% of Dingwall
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Dingwall 19706 ha
6 hain conservation areas, of 424 ha inside the locality.
13 of the 25 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
11 of Dingwall’s 25 listed buildings were added in 1971
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1971 · 111983 · 8
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The first 11 entries were listed in 1971, 1 of the 1 Category A buildings among them. 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.
2 scheduled monuments
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from Historic Environment Scotland.
Dingwall Castle, 20m SW of The Castle HouseSecular: castle
Dingwall Churchyard,symbol stoneCrosses and carved stones: symbol stone; Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard
Born here
4 notable people born in Dingwall before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
George Simpson
Thomas Simpson
Colin Calder
John Alexander Smith
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George Simpson1787–1860 · Scottish colonial administrator and explorer
Thomas Simpson1808–1840 · Scottish arctic explorer (1808–1840)
Colin Calder1860–1907 · Founder of Rosario Central (1860–1907)
JS
John Alexander Smith1863–1939 · British philosopher (1863-1939)
Everyone born in Dingwall → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Dingwall
| Town | People | Listed | Category A | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dingwall | 5,274 | 25 | 1 | — |
| Muir of Ord | 2,832 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Alness | 5,940 | 14 | 0 | — |
| Invergordon | 3,801 | 16 | 0 | — |
| Inverness | 48,257 | 299 | 14 | — |
In brief
Dingwall in brief
The official list counts 25 listed buildings in Dingwall, 1 of them in the top category, including Tulloch Street, St Clements Church (C of S Parish Church), Gatepiers and Burial Ground. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. George Simpson (1787), Thomas Simpson (1808) and Colin Calder (1860) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Category A building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 0); and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Questions about Dingwall’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Dingwall?
Historic Environment Scotland lists 25 buildings inside Dingwall’s locality: 1 Category A, 21 Category B and 3 Category C.
What are the Category A listed buildings in Dingwall?
One: Tulloch Street, St Clements Church (C of S Parish Church), Gatepiers and Burial Ground.
Are there scheduled monuments in Dingwall?
Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Dingwall Castle, 20m SW of The Castle House and Dingwall Churchyard,symbol stone.
How many conservation areas are there in Dingwall?
1, covering about 6 hectares of the town. The largest is Dingwall.
When were Dingwall’s buildings listed?
The first in 1971; the most, 11, in 1971.
Who was born in Dingwall?
Among people born before 1900: George Simpson (1787), Thomas Simpson (1808), Colin Calder (1860) and John Alexander Smith (1863).
Dingwall 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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