Photo: M J Richardson · CC BY-SA 2.06 listed buildings, 5 of them in the second category
Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Loanhead’s locality, 8.6 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Loanhead, 1 are Category C.
Landmarks of Loanhead
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.
Where Loanhead’s history is
Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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.
The 5 Category B listed buildings in Loanhead
Buildings of regional importance. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
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
1 conservation area covers 2.1% of Loanhead
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
4 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, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 garden or designed landscape
3 notable people born in Loanhead before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in Loanhead → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Listed buildings in the places around Loanhead
| Town | People | Listed | Category A | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loanhead | 7,007 | 6 | 0 | — |
| Bonnyrigg | 18,088 | 59 | 2 | — |
| Danderhall | 3,389 | 3 | 1 | — |
| Penicuik | 16,431 | 46 | 4 | — |
| Dalkeith | 15,125 | 168 | 8 | — |
| Mayfield | 14,259 | 13 | 1 | — |
| Edinburgh | 493,794 | 4,435 | 849 | — |
| Gorebridge | 8,900 | 20 | 0 | — |
Loanhead in brief
Loanhead has 6 listed buildings, including Loanhead, Memorial Park Gateway, Gate, Wall and Monument. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Graeme Mercer Adam (1839), Mary Alexander Park (1850) and Thomas Preston (1893) were all born here before 1900. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Category A building; and the list grew between 1988 and 2001.
Questions about Loanhead’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Loanhead?
Historic Environment Scotland lists 6 buildings inside Loanhead’s locality: 0 Category A, 5 Category B and 1 Category C.
How many conservation areas are there in Loanhead?
1, covering about 7 hectares of the town. The largest is Mavisbank.
Who was born in Loanhead?
Among people born before 1900: Graeme Mercer Adam (1839), Mary Alexander Park (1850) and Thomas Preston (1893).
Loanhead 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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