AWalls & gates · listed 1971Peebles Road, Penicuik South Church (Church of Scotland), Including Boundary Walls and GatepiersPhoto: Dawatters · CC BY-SA 4.0
Peebles Road, Penicuik South Church (Church of Scotland), Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers · Photo: Dawatters · CC BY-SA 4.0–Not graded
History of Penicuik · Historic Environment Scotland
46 listed buildings, 4 of them in the top category
Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Penicuik’s locality, 28 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 12 of its listed buildings.
Listed buildings
46
28 per 10,000 residents
Category A
4
national importance
Category B
21
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
1
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures
Penicuik in 13 photos
Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
22-34 (Even Nos) Bridge Street and 1-7 (Inclusive Nos) Park End, Including ArchwayCategory A listed
Penicuik,St Kentigern's Church & Clerk MausoleumScheduled monument
25 Bog Road, Navaar House HotelCategory B listed
High Street, Council Offices (Former Cowan Institute)Category C listed
35 High Street, Glebe House, Including Pavilion Blocks, Boundary Walls and Bee BolesCategory B listed+8See 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 Penicuik’s history is
Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.
Category ACategory BScheduled monumentPark or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
46 listed buildings by grade
4 Category A21 Category B21 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 4 Category A listed buildings in Penicuik
Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. 3 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
AHouse · listed 197122-34 (Even Nos) Bridge Street and 1-7 (Inclusive Nos) Park End, Including ArchwayPhoto: AlasdairW · CC BY-SA 4.0
AChurch · listed 1985Glencorse Parish ChurchPhoto: Sandy Gemmill · CC BY-SA 2.0
Public · listed 1971Glencorse Barracks, Clock Tower
Category B
The 21 Category B listed buildings in Penicuik
Buildings of regional importance. 8 are photographed.
BHouse · listed 200025 Bog Road, Navaar House HotelPhoto: AlasdairW · CC BY-SA 4.0
BHouse · listed 198835 High Street, Glebe House, Including Pavilion Blocks, Boundary Walls and Bee BolesPhoto: AlasdairW · CC BY-SA 4.0
BWalls & gates · listed 1978Broomhill Road, St James the Less Church (Episcopal), Including Churchyard and Boundary WallsPhoto: AlasdairW · CC BY-SA 4.0
BWalls & gates · listed 2000Carlops Road, Penicuik High School, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and GatesPhoto: Dawatters · CC BY-SA 4.0
BHouse · listed 1993High Street, Old Well (Cowan Well)Photo: Dawatters · CC BY-SA 4.0
BWalls & gates · listed 1971High Street, St Mungo's Parish Church (Church of Scotland), Including Hearse House, Churchyard, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Railings and GatesPhoto: AlasdairW · CC BY-SA 4.0
BMemorials · listed 1971Valleyfield, Sepulchral MonumentPhoto: Kim Traynor · CC BY-SA 3.0
BHouse · listed 20005 and 7 High StreetPhoto: Dawatters · CC BY-SA 4.0
House · listed 1971Aaron House Nursing and Residential Care Home (Former Beeslack House)
Public · listed 1997Glencorse Barracks, Barrack Block
Public · listed 1997Glencorse Barracks, Chapel, Terrace and Stores
Walls & gates · listed 1997Glencorse Barracks, Memorial Lodges, Gates, Gatepiers and Boundary Walls
Show the other 9
Public · listed 1971Glencorse Barracks, The Keep (Former Quartermaster's Store and Armoury)
Walls & gates · listed 1999Pomathorn Road, Uttershill House, Including Boundary Walls, Gates and Gatepiers
House · listed 200024 Bog Road
House · listed 200025 Croft Street, Including Boundary Walls
House · listed 200030 Cairnbank Road
House · listed 199639-49 (Odd Nos) John Street, Including Boundary Walls
House · listed 200050 Bog Road, Craigiebield House Hotel
What’s protected
Most of Penicuik’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas30
Walls, gates & bridges7
Public & civic buildings5
Churches, chapels & priories2
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
30 entries (65%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 4 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
21 Category C listed buildings
This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 21 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Beeslack House, LodgeGlencorse Parish Church, War MemorialHigh Street, Council Offices (Former Cowan Institute)Sophia Inglis Memorial, Wester AuchindinnyWest Street, South Church Hall1-5 (Odd Nos) West Street13 High Street, The Old Crown Inn15-23 (Odd Nos) High Street17 and 18 the Square18 Bridge Street2-6 (Even Nos) West Street23 and 24 the Square27 Croft Street, 'The Old Schoolhouse'33-37 (Odd Nos) West Street, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates34 High Street, The Royal Hotel50 and 50A Kirkhill Road, Former School and Schoolhouse, Penicuik51 John Street, Including Boundary Walls55 John Street, Including Boundary Walls and Gatepier6-10 (Even Nos) High Street, Scotmid68 John Street, Including Boundary Wall9 and 11 High Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 5.3% of Penicuik
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Penicuik 197028 ha
28 hain conservation areas, of 529 ha inside the locality.
31 of the 46 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 Penicuik’s listed buildings were added in one year, 2000
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
2000 · 251971 · 7
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The first 7 entries were listed in 1971, 3 of the 4 Category A buildings among them. 25 came in 2000. Only 1 has 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.
Penicuik,St Kentigern's Church & Clerk MausoleumEcclesiastical: church; Secular: mausoleum
1 garden or designed landscape
PenicuikGarden and designed landscape
Born here
8 notable people born in Penicuik before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
James Finlayson
Alexander Cowan
David Ewart
James Cossar Ewart
Cargill Gilston Knott
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
George Affleck
Jock Morgan
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson1869–1959 · Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
Cargill Gilston Knott1856–1922 · British mathematician and physicist
James Cossar Ewart1851–1933 · British zoologist (1851–1933)
James Finlayson1771–1852 · British businessman
GA
George Affleck1888– · Scottish footballer (1888-?)
David Ewart1841–1921 · Canadian architect (1841-1921)
JM
Jock Morgan1889–1983 · Scottish footballer (1889-1983)
Alexander Cowan1775–1859 · (1775-1859)
Everyone born in Penicuik → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Penicuik has the 25th most Category A buildings of 127 towns its size
Scottish towns of 7,000–41,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.
Penicuik4
#59 of 127for listed buildings per resident (28 per 10,000). Kelso, Kirkwall and Haddington lead.
24 have more. The typical town its size has 1.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Penicuik
| Town | People | Listed | Category A | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penicuik | 16,431 | 46 | 4 | — |
| Loanhead | 7,007 | 6 | 0 | — |
| Bonnyrigg | 18,088 | 59 | 2 | — |
| Gorebridge | 8,900 | 20 | 0 | — |
| Danderhall | 3,389 | 3 | 1 | — |
| Mayfield | 14,259 | 13 | 1 | — |
| Edinburgh | 493,794 | 4,435 | 849 | — |
| Dalkeith | 15,125 | 168 | 8 | — |
In brief
Penicuik in brief
The official list counts 46 listed buildings in Penicuik, 4 of them in the top category, including Peebles Road, Penicuik South Church (Church of Scotland), Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers. Only 24 of the 127 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Of the whole list, 65% are houses, terraces and villas.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Cargill Gilston Knott (1856) and James Cossar Ewart (1851) are among the 8 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 2000: 25 of 46. The rest is about typical: it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Penicuik’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Penicuik?
Historic Environment Scotland lists 46 buildings inside Penicuik’s locality: 4 Category A, 21 Category B and 21 Category C.
What are the Category A listed buildings in Penicuik?
4, including Glencorse Barracks, Clock Tower, Glencorse Parish Church, Peebles Road, Penicuik South Church (Church of Scotland), Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers and 22-34 (Even Nos) Bridge Street and 1-7 (Inclusive Nos) Park End, Including Archway.
Are there scheduled monuments in Penicuik?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Penicuik,St Kentigern's Church & Clerk Mausoleum.
How many conservation areas are there in Penicuik?
1, covering about 28 hectares of the town. The largest is Penicuik.
When were Penicuik’s buildings listed?
The first in 1971; the most, 25, in 2000.
Who was born in Penicuik?
Among people born before 1900: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Cargill Gilston Knott (1856), James Cossar Ewart (1851), James Finlayson (1771) and George Affleck (1888).
Penicuik 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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