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History of Forres · Historic Environment Scotland

171 listed buildings, 4 of them in the top category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Forres’s locality, 184 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 16 of its listed buildings.

4Category A65Category B1scheduled monument34on High Street
Listed buildings
171
184 per 10,000 residents
Category A
4
national importance
Category B
65
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
1
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures

Forres in 17 photos

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Findhorn ViaductFindhorn ViaductCategory A listedHigh Street, TolboothHigh Street, TolboothCategory A listed29 Caroline Street, The Castle29 Caroline Street, The CastleCategory C listedWaterford Road, Benromach Distillery, MaltbarnWaterford Road, Benromach Distillery, MaltbarnCategory B listedCathay House and Conservatory-Glass House RangeCathay House and Conservatory-Glass House RangeCategory B listed+12See 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 Forres’s history is

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

Grant Park And Cluny Hill, garden or designed landscapeSueno's Stone, scheduled monumentBogton, Category BBridge Street, Castle Bridge, Category BBridge Street, War Memorial, Category BCathay House and Conservatory-Glass House Range, Category BCathay House, Gate Lodge and Gatepiers, Category BCluny Bank Including Garden Walls, 69 St Leonard’s Road, Forres, Category BCluny Hill, Nelson's Tower, Category BCraigouris, 25 St Leonard’s Road, Forres, Category BHigh Street Market Cross, Category BHigh Street, Anderson's Primary School, (Front Block Facing High Street Only) Gatepiers and Railings, Category BHigh Street, Castlehill Church, Category BHigh Street, Mechanics' Institute, Category BHigh Street, St Laurence's Church, Gate Piers and Kirkyard Walls, Category BHigh Street, St Leonard's Church, Category BNewbold House, Conservatory and Walled Garden, Category BNewbold House, Gate Lodge and Gatepiers, Category BOrchard Road, Orchard House Garden Walls and Gate Piers, Category BSt Leonards Road, Leanchoil Hospital Lodge and Fountain, Category BSt Leonards Road, Leanchoil Hospital Main Block, Category BThe Elms Including Garden Walls, 29 St Leonard’s Road, Forres, Category BTolbooth Street, Falconer Museum, Category BTowerside, 19 St Leonard’s Road, Forres, Category BVictoria Road, Braeriach, Category BVictoria Road, Carrour, Category BVictoria Road, Cluny, Category BVictoria Road, Forres House Lodge and Gate Piers, Category BVictoria Road, Roseville, Category BWaterford Road, Benromach Distillery, Maltbarn, Category B1 Hepworth Lane (Off 73-75 High Street), Category B100 High Street, Category B100A High Street(Through Pend), Category B100B High Street(Through Pend), Category B106 High Street, Category B107, 109 and 111 High Street, Category B108, 110, 112 High Street, Category B11 St Leonard’s Road, Forres, Category B118, 118A High Street, Category B122, 124, 126 High Street, Longview Hotel, Category B128, 130, 132, 132A High Street, Category B13 St Leonard’s Road, Forres, Category B134, 138, 140 High Street, Category B139 High Street, Category B145 High Street (Former Church of Scotland Manse), Category B15 Tolbooth Street, Dunroamin, Category B154 High Street, Category B154A High Street (In Close), Category B154B High Street (In Close), Category B154C High Street (In Close), Category B154D High Street (In Close), Category B160A, 162 High Street, Category B22,24 High Street, Category B28 Tolbooth Street and Gatepier, Category B3, 5, 7, 9, 11 Tolbooth Street (Former Market), Category B44 North Road, Berbice, Category B5 Bogton Place, "Inver House", Category B57 High Street, Royal Bank of Scotland, Category B6 Bogton Place, "Fyfe Place", Category B6 Cumming Street, Category B63, 65, 67 High Street, Carlton Hotel, Category B69 and 71 High Street, Category B74, 76 and 78 High Street, Category B82, 84 and 86 High Street, Category B93 High Street, Category B95 and 99 High Street, Category B96, 98 High Street, Clydesdale Bank, With Former Gighouse and Stables to Rear, Category BFindhorn Viaduct, Category AHigh Street, Tolbooth, Category AVictoria Road, St John's Episcopal Church, Category A102 High Street, Bank of Scotland, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monumentPark or garden

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171 listed buildings by grade
4 Category A65 Category B102 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 Forres

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.

Category B

The 65 Category B listed buildings in Forres

Buildings of regional importance. 12 are photographed.

Show the other 53
Historic streets

High Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

High Street34 listed · 16 II*
High Street (Through Pend)13 listed
Forres8 listed · 2 II*
Urquhart Street8 listed
Bank Lane5 listed
High Street (In Close)5 listed · 4 II*
High Street(Through Pend)5 listed · 2 II*
Hepworth Lane (Off 73-75 High Street)4 listed · 1 II*
(Through Pend)3 listed
Batchen Street3 listed
Cumming Street3 listed · 1 II*

Of the 171 entries, 121 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Forres’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas149
Walls, gates & bridges10
Public & civic buildings6
Churches, chapels & priories3
Inns, shops & warehouses2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

149 entries (87%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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

102 Category C listed buildings

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

All 102 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Bank Lane, GranvilleBurdshaugh, The CottageHigh Street, Monument to Dr James Thomson, Castle HillJoint Cadet Centre, High Street, ForresMilne's Wynd, 2 and 3 Murdoch PlaceNairn Road, Oak CottageNorth Road, GreenwoodNorth Road, SpinningdalePilmuir Road, 1-6 (Inclusive Nos) Iowa PlaceRobertson Place, Westpark House, Outbuildings and Westpark CottageRussell Place, Firth ViewSouth Street, 1 and 2 Nicol PlaceTolbooth Street, FountainTolbooth Street, Glenerney CottageTolbooth Street, Red Lion HotelTytler Street, Hamilton's Auction MartVictoria Road, Bronte PlaceVictoria Road, St John's Rectory1 Bank Lane1 Gordon Street1 Tolbooth Street1 and 2 Nairn Road (West End) Including Greywalls Studio10 North Street, Restcot101, 103 and 105 High Street113 High Street114, 116 High Street and 1A Cumming Street115A High Street, (Through Pend)115B High Street(Through Pend)115C High Street (Through Pend)117-121 High Street12 Bank Lane, Invermay129 High Street129B High Street (Through Pend)129C High Street (Through Pend)129D High Street (Through Pend)13 High Street, Glen Cairn131-135 (Odd Nos) High Street133B High Street (through pend), Forres133C High Street (through pend), Forres133D and 133E High Street (through pend), Forres135A High Street (Through Pend)144 High Street145B High Street (Through Pend)160B,C High Street (In Close)168 High Street17 Batchen Street17 Urquhart Street18 Urquhart Street, St Florians2 Bank Lane2 Burdgreen2 Hepworth Lane (Off 73-75 High Street)20A Urquhart Street20B Urquhart Street21 St Leonard’s Road, Forres21 Urquhart Street, Cardean22 Urquhart Street22A Urquhart Street23 St Leonard’s Road, Forres23 Urquhart Street, Lenmohr24 Urquhart Street24B Urquhart Street25 Urquhart Street, Bellevue26 Urquhart Street, Strathville29 Caroline Street, The Castle3 Hepworth Lane (Off 73-75 High Street)3 Urquhart Street3 and 3A Cumming Street3 and 4 Bank Lane30 High Street32 Tolbooth Street4 Hepworth Lane (Off 73-75 High Street)44 High Street45 and 45A High Street and 1 Murdoch Place, Forres46 North Road46, 48 and 50, 50A High Street5 Bank Lane5 Batchen Street5 and 5A Cumming Street51,53 and 55 High Street6 and 7 Bank Lane60, 62 High Street64, 66 High Street68, 70 and 72 High Street7 Batchen Street70A High Street (Through Pend)70B High Street (Through Pend)70C High Street (Through Pend)70E High Street (Through Pend)73, 75, 77 and 79 High Street74 and 74A High Street (Through Pend)76A High Street(Through Pend)76B High Street(Through Pend)81 and 83 High Street82A,B High Street84B,C,D High Street 84E High Street(Through Pend)85 and 87 High Street and Flats 1 and 2 North Street Place, North Field88, 90, 92, 94 High Street88A,B High Street (Through Pend)89 High Street94A,B,C High Street (Through Pend)97H High Street, (Through Pend)97J High Street, (Through Pend)
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 14% of Forres

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

Forres63 ha
63 hain conservation areas, of 468 ha inside the locality.

147 of the 171 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 Forres’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983

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

1983 · 1191971 · 32
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 32 entries were listed in 1971, 2 of the 4 Category A buildings among them. 119 came in 1983, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. 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.

Sueno's Stone
Sueno's StoneCrosses and carved stones: symbol stone

1 garden or designed landscape

Grant Park And Cluny HillGarden and designed landscape
Born here

14 notable people born in Forres before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

James Grant
Hugh Falconer
Alexander Campbell
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Alexander Raff
Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet
Charles Lumley
Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet
Lavinia Malcolm
Francis Jenkinson
James Taylor
Sir Alexander Grant, 1st Baronet
Willie Murray
James Fraser
175017751800182518501875190019251950
Hugh Falconer
Hugh Falconer1808–1865 · Scottish scientist (1808–1865)
Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet
Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet1824–1900 · British field marshal (1824–1900)
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal1820–1914 · Canadian businessman, politician and philanthropist (1820-1914)
JG
James Grant1772–1833 · British Royal Navy officer and navigator
Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet
Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet1848–1930 · Scottish landowner, soldier, adventurer and socialite
Francis Jenkinson
Francis Jenkinson1853–1923 · Cambridge University Librarian (1853-1923)
James Fraser
James Fraser1889–1961 · Australian trade unionist and politician (1889–1961)
Alexander Raff
Alexander Raff1820–1914 · Scottish Australian politician (1820-1914)

Everyone born in Forres → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Towns its size

Forres has the 26th most Category A buildings of 191 towns its size

Scottish towns of 4,000–23,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
St Andrews20
Helensburgh13
Montrose11
Banff11
Musselburgh11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Linlithgow9
Dalkeith8
Jedburgh8
Forres4
#18 of 191for listed buildings per resident (184 per 10,000). Banff, Anstruther and Rothesay lead.

25 have more. The typical town its size has 1.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Forres

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Forres9,2901714—
Nairn9,576632—
Elgin24,61724313—
In brief

Forres in brief

Forres has 171 listed buildings, 4 of them in the top category, including Findhorn Viaduct. Only 25 of the 191 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. High Street alone has 34 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it.

Most entries on the list, 87%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 14 people born here before 1900, the best known include Hugh Falconer (1808), Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet (1824) and Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820). The big year was 1983, when 119 of the 171 went on the list. The rest is about typical: it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Forres’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Forres?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 171 buildings inside Forres’s locality: 4 Category A, 65 Category B and 102 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Forres?

4, including Findhorn Viaduct, High Street, Tolbooth, Victoria Road, St John's Episcopal Church and 102 High Street, Bank of Scotland.

Which street in Forres has the most listed buildings?

High Street (34), High Street (Through Pend) (13) and Forres (8) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Forres?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Sueno's Stone.

How many conservation areas are there in Forres?

1, covering about 63 hectares of the town. The largest is Forres.

When were Forres’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 119, in 1983.

Who was born in Forres?

Among people born before 1900: Hugh Falconer (1808), Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet (1824), Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820), James Grant (1772) and Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet (1848).

Forres 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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