BWalls & gates · listed 1998Harvieston Lodge, Gates, Gatepiers and Boundary WallsPhoto: Anne Burgess · CC BY-SA 2.0
Newbyres Castle · Photo: Horis · CC BY-SA 4.0–Not graded
History of Gorebridge · Historic Environment Scotland
20 listed buildings, 2 of them in the second category
Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Gorebridge’s locality, 22 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 3 of its listed buildings.
Listed buildings
20
22 per 10,000 residents
Category A
0
national importance
Category B
2
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
In pictures
Landmarks of Gorebridge
Nearly every Category A and B building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Gorebridge, Hunterfield Road, Gorebridge Parish Church (Church of Scotland) Including Church Hall and Boundary WallCategory C listed
Gorebridge, 47 and 49 Powdermill Brae, Gore Cottage, Including Boundary Wall and RailingsCategory C listed
Harvieston Lodge, Gates, Gatepiers and Boundary WallsCategory B listed+1See 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 Gorebridge’s history is
Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.
Category BScheduled monument
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
20 listed buildings by grade
0 Category A2 Category B18 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 2 Category B listed buildings in Gorebridge
Buildings of regional importance. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
The largest group of Gorebridge’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas9
Walls, gates & bridges7
Public & civic buildings2
Street furniture2
9 entries (45%) are houses, terraces and villas.
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
18 Category C listed buildings
This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 18 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Gorebridge Post Office, Main StreetGorebridge, 13 Hunterfield RoadGorebridge, 14 Main Street, LonachGorebridge, 19 and 21 Main StreetGorebridge, 25 Powdermill Brae, Including RailingsGorebridge, 32 and 34 Main StreetGorebridge, 34 Hunterfield RoadGorebridge, 36, 38 and 40 Main StreetGorebridge, 37 and 39 Powdermill Brae, Bellvue, Including Boundary Wall and RailingsGorebridge, 43 Powdermill Brae Including Railings and PiersGorebridge, 45A and 45B Main Street, Including Boundary Wall and RailingsGorebridge, 47 and 49 Powdermill Brae, Gore Cottage, Including Boundary Wall and RailingsGorebridge, 53 Main StreetGorebridge, 70, 72, 74, Hunterfield Road, Newbyres RowGorebridge, Hunterfield Road, Gorebridge Parish Church (Church of Scotland) Including Church Hall and Boundary WallGorebridge, Porters (The Old Station)Gorebridge, Stobsmill House, Including Boundary Wall13-20 Newtonloan Court (former Newtonloan Fever Hospital) including gates, gatepiers and boundary walls, and excluding all interiors (Nos 13-20) and conservatory to the rear of No 13, Hunterfield Road, Gorebridge
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 1.1% of Gorebridge
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Gorebridge 19702 ha
2 hain conservation areas, of 211 ha inside the locality.
10 of the 20 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 Gorebridge’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1998
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1998 · 16
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1997. 16 came in 1998. 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.
Newbyres CastleSecular: castle
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Gorebridge
In brief
Gorebridge in brief
The official list counts 20 listed buildings in Gorebridge, including Newbyres Castle. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. The big year was 1998, when 16 of the 20 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has no Category A building, where the middle town its size has 1; Annie S. Swan (1859) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Gorebridge’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Gorebridge?
Historic Environment Scotland lists 20 buildings inside Gorebridge’s locality: 0 Category A, 2 Category B and 18 Category C.
Are there scheduled monuments in Gorebridge?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Newbyres Castle.
How many conservation areas are there in Gorebridge?
1, covering about 2 hectares of the town. The largest is Gorebridge.
When were Gorebridge’s buildings listed?
The first in 1997; the most, 16, in 1998.
Gorebridge 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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