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History of Buckie · Historic Environment Scotland

22 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Buckie’s locality, 24 for every 10,000 residents. 12 of Buckie’s listed buildings are Category C. We have photos of 8 of its listed buildings.

1Category A9Category B9on Yardie
Listed buildings
22
24 per 10,000 residents
Category A
1
national importance
Category B
9
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
In pictures

Buckie in 7 photos

Nearly every Category A and B building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Buckie, St Andrews Square, St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Presbytery and Enclosing WallsBuckie, St Andrews Square, St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Presbytery and Enclosing WallsCategory A listedBuckie, Cluny Square, War MemorialBuckie, Cluny Square, War MemorialCategory B listedBuckie Harbour, 17 Low Street, Former Lifeboat StationBuckie Harbour, 17 Low Street, Former Lifeboat StationCategory B listedSouth and West Church (former Free Church) including the adjoining single storey church halls (former Free Church School) to the rear, the western boundary walls, railings, gates and gatepiers and excSouth and West Church (former Free Church) including the adjoining single storey church halls (former Free Church School) to the rear, the western boundary walls, railings, gates and gatepiers and excCategory C listedBuckie, West Church Street, All Saints Episcopal Church Hall and ParsonageBuckie, West Church Street, All Saints Episcopal Church Hall and ParsonageCategory B listed+2See all photos

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.

The map

Where Buckie’s history is

Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.

Buckie Harbour, 17 Low Street, Former Lifeboat Station, Category BBuckie Harbour, North West and North Piers, Category BBuckie, 7 Baron Street, Cluny Lodge and Garden Wall, Category BBuckie, Cluny Square, War Memorial, Category BBuckie, East Church Street, Buckie North Parish Church (Church of Scotland), Category BBuckie, West Church Street, All Saints Episcopal Church Hall and Parsonage, Category BBuckpool, 28 Harbour Head, Pair Fish Smoking Kilns, Category BBuckpool, 35 Harbour Head, Category B40 Yardie, Category BBuckie, St Andrews Square, St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Presbytery and Enclosing Walls, Category A
Category ACategory B

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

22 listed buildings by grade
1 Category A9 Category B12 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 Buckie

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 9 Category B listed buildings in Buckie

Buildings of regional importance. 5 are photographed.

What’s protected

Most of Buckie’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas14
Walls, gates & bridges4
Public & civic buildings2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Churches, chapels & priories1

14 entries (64%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories.

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

12 Category C listed buildings

This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.

All 12 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Buckie Harbour, Cliff Terrace, Leading LightBuckie Harbour, North Pier, LighthouseBuckpool, 87 Main Street and Garden WallSouth and West Church (former Free Church) including the adjoining single storey church halls (former Free Church School) to the rear, the western boundary walls, railings, gates and gatepiers and excluding the single-storey, flat-roofed addition at the39 Yardie41 Yardie42 Yardie43 Yardie48 Yardie50 Yardie60 Yardie68 Yardie
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 0.2% of Buckie

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Buckie Yardie 19701 ha
1 hain conservation areas, of 353 ha inside the locality.

9 of the 22 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 Buckie’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1972

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1972 · 131989 · 8
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 13 entries were listed in 1972, 1 of the 1 Category A buildings among them. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Buckie

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Buckie9,059221—
Keith4,554584—
In brief

Buckie in brief

The official list counts 22 listed buildings in Buckie, 1 of them in the top category, including Buckie, St Andrews Square, St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Presbytery and Enclosing Walls. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Most entries on the list, 64%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1972, when 13 of the 22 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Category A building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1).

Questions about Buckie’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Buckie?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 22 buildings inside Buckie’s locality: 1 Category A, 9 Category B and 12 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Buckie?

One: Buckie, St Andrews Square, St Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Presbytery and Enclosing Walls.

How many conservation areas are there in Buckie?

1, covering about 1 hectares of the town. The largest is Buckie Yardie.

When were Buckie’s buildings listed?

The first in 1972; the most, 13, in 1972.

Buckie 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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