AHouse · listed 1990Newtongrange, Lady Victoria CollieryPhoto: kim traynor · CC BY-SA 2.0
Lothianbridge, Newbattle Viaduct · Photo: Klaus with K · CC BY-SA 3.0–Not graded
History of Mayfield · Historic Environment Scotland
13 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top category
On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Mayfield’s locality, 9.1 for every 10,000 residents. Category C covers 10 of Mayfield’s listed buildings. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings.
Listed buildings
13
9.1 per 10,000 residents
Category A
1
national importance
Category B
2
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures
Mayfield in 5 photos
Nearly every Category A and B building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Newtongrange, Lady Victoria CollieryCategory A listed
Newtonloan, Toll HouseCategory C listed
Newtongrange, Main Street, The Dean TavernCategory C listed
Lothianbridge, The Sun InnCategory C 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 Mayfield’s history is
Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.
Category ACategory BPark or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
13 listed buildings by grade
1 Category A2 Category B10 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 Mayfield
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 2 Category B listed buildings in Mayfield
Buildings of regional importance. 1 is photographed.
BWalls & gates · listed 1971Lothianbridge, Newbattle ViaductPhoto: Klaus with K · CC BY-SA 3.0
Public · listed 1981Newtongrange, Lady Victoria Colliery, Manager's Office
Category C
10 Category C listed buildings
This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 10 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Brewers BushCockpen Farm, Folly (Tower) on E Bank of River South EskLothianbridge, Craigesk House Including Boundary Wall and Entrance GatesLothianbridge, The Sun InnNewtongrange, 1 - 12 (Inclusive Numbers) Lingerwood Cottages Including Boundary WallNewtongrange, 21 and 23 Murderdean RoadNewtongrange, 37 - 42 (Inclusive Numbers) Main Street, MonkwoodNewtongrange, Main Street, Newtongrange Parish Church (Church of Scotland) Including Church Hall and Boundary WallNewtongrange, Main Street, The Dean TavernNewtonloan, Toll House
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 4.6% of Mayfield
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Newtongrange21 ha
Newbattle 19701 ha
23 hain conservation areas, of 488 ha inside the locality.
5 of the 13 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
Mayfield’s list has grown since 1971
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 1 entry was listed in 1971. 3 came in 1981, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. 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
Newbattle AbbeyGarden and designed landscape
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Mayfield
| Town | People | Listed | Category A | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayfield | 14,259 | 13 | 1 | — |
| Dalkeith | 15,125 | 168 | 8 | — |
| Gorebridge | 8,900 | 20 | 0 | — |
| Bonnyrigg | 18,088 | 59 | 2 | — |
| Danderhall | 3,389 | 3 | 1 | — |
| Loanhead | 7,007 | 6 | 0 | — |
| Musselburgh | 21,476 | 188 | 11 | — |
| Wallyford | 4,493 | 1 | 0 | — |
In brief
Mayfield in brief
Mayfield has 13 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top category, including Newtongrange, Lady Victoria Colliery. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970. The rest is about typical: it has one Category A building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); and Bob Reid (1887) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Mayfield’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Mayfield?
Historic Environment Scotland lists 13 buildings inside Mayfield’s locality: 1 Category A, 2 Category B and 10 Category C.
What are the Category A listed buildings in Mayfield?
One: Newtongrange, Lady Victoria Colliery.
How many conservation areas are there in Mayfield?
2, covering about 23 hectares of the town. The largest are Newtongrange and Newbattle.
When were Mayfield’s buildings listed?
The first in 1971; the most, 3, in 1999.
Mayfield 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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