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History of Keith · Historic Environment Scotland

58 listed buildings, 4 of them in the top category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Keith’s locality, 127 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 15 of its listed buildings.

4Category A30Category B1scheduled monument6on Mid Street
Listed buildings
58
127 per 10,000 residents
Category A
4
national importance
Category B
30
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
In pictures

Keith in 16 photos

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Chapel Street, Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas and PresbyteryChapel Street, Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas and PresbyteryCategory A listedOld Keith, Bridge over River IslaOld Keith, Bridge over River IslaCategory A listedMid Street, North Church of ScotlandMid Street, North Church of ScotlandCategory B listed36 Regent Street and 4, 5 Regent Square, Grampian Hotel (Formerly Gordon Arms Hotel)36 Regent Street and 4, 5 Regent Square, Grampian Hotel (Formerly Gordon Arms Hotel)Category C listedLand Street, War MemorialLand Street, War MemorialCategory B listed+11See 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 Keith’s history is

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

Milton Tower,Keith, scheduled monumentLand Street, War Memorial, Category BMid Street, North Church of Scotland, Category BOld Keith, Burial Ground and Site of Former Parish Church, Category BSeafield Avenue, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church and Enclosing Walls, Category BStation Road, Linn Bridge over River Isla, Category B104, 106, 108 Mid Street, Category B105, 107, 109 Mid Street, Keith, Category B11 Chapel Street, Cuthill House, Category B115, 117, Mid Street, Category B13 Regent Street, St Ronans, Category B130, 132 Mid Street, The Post Office, Category B134, 136 Land Street, (Former North of Scotland Bank), Category B138, 140 Mid Street, The Institute, Category B15 Regent Street, Appin House and Garden Wall Abutting Regent Street and Wellington Terrace, Category B166 Land Street and 16 Union Street, Category B17 Reidhaven Square, Category B176, 178, 180 Mid Street, Category B2 Nelson Terrace, Category B2 Regent Square and Garden Walls, Category B2 Reidhaven Square and Garden Walls, Category B28, 30 Regent Street and Return Elevation to Regent Square, Fife Arms Hotel, Category B43 Moss Street, Category B45 Moss Street, Category B47, 49 Regent Street, 2 and 2A Station Road, Regent House, Category B49, 51 Mid Street, Category B54, 56 Land Street and Garden Walls at South, Category B56-66 (Even Nos) Mid Street and 20, 21 Reidhaven Square, Category B8 Reidhaven Square and 50-54 (Even Nos) Mid Street, Category B86 Land Street, Cuthill Lea, Category B86 Mid Street, Seafield Arms Hotel, Category BChapel Street, Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas and Presbytery, Category AChurch Road, St Rufus Church (Church of Scotland), Enclosing Walls and Gatepiers, Category AOld Keith, Bridge over River Isla, Category ASeafield Avenue, Strathisla Distillery, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument

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58 listed buildings by grade
4 Category A30 Category B24 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 Keith

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 30 Category B listed buildings in Keith

Buildings of regional importance. 10 are photographed.

Show the other 18
Historic streets

The Mid Street and Regent Street have 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.

Mid Street6 listed · 4 II*
Regent Street6 listed
Land Street4 listed
Chapel Street3 listed

Of the 58 entries, 48 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Keith’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas49
Walls, gates & bridges5
Churches, chapels & priories3
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

49 entries (84%) 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

24 Category C listed buildings

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

All 24 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Union Bridge over River Isla1, 3 Regent Street109, 111 Land Street12 Chapel Street124 Land Street, Moorfield13, 15 Chapel Street14 Chapel Street140 Land Street143, 145 Land Street and 14 Union Street16, 18 Regent Street161, 163 Mid Street, Clydesdale Bank162, 164 Land Street168, 170 Land Street22, 23 Reidhaven Square, The Crown Inn and 53, 55 Mid Street29, 31 Regent Street33, 35 Regent Street36 Regent Street and 4, 5 Regent Square, Grampian Hotel (Formerly Gordon Arms Hotel)37, 39 Regent Street42 Land Street, Former Steading at Rear and Garden Wall46, 48 Duff Street, (Entrance to No 48 Facing Mar Place) and Garden Wall to Mar Place5 Regent Street7, 9 Chapel Street, Den Mar and Crimond88, 90, 92 Land Street, Chapel House98 Mid Street
Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 4.4% of Keith

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

Keith Mid Street 19706 ha
Keith Fife Keith 19705 ha
10 hain conservation areas, of 235 ha inside the locality.

The first, Keith Mid Street and Keith Fife Keith, were designated in 1970; the newest, Keith Fife Keith, in 1970. 34 of the 58 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 Keith’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1972

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

1972 · 351988 · 22
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 35 entries were listed in 1972, 3 of the 4 Category A buildings among them. 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 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from Historic Environment Scotland.

Milton Tower,Keith
Milton Tower,KeithSecular: tower
Born here

6 notable people born in Keith before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

James Gordon Bennett Sr.
George Maclean
George Sellar
John Strachan
John Ripley
Wilfrid George Kendrew
175017751800182518501875190019251950
James Gordon Bennett Sr.
James Gordon Bennett Sr.1795–1872 · American publisher (1795-1872)
John Strachan
John Strachan1862–1907 · British philologist
WK
Wilfrid George Kendrew1884–1962 · British climatologist
GM
George Maclean1801–1847 · British colonial governor
George Sellar
George Sellar1850–1889 · Scottish soldier (1850–1889); recipient of the Victoria Cross
John Ripley
John Ripley1867–1933 · Recipient of the Victoria Cross (1867-1933)

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

Towns its size

Keith has the 20th most Category A buildings of 221 towns its size

Scottish towns of 2,000–11,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
Montrose11
Banff11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Jedburgh8
Rothesay7
Dunbar7
Brechin6
South Queensferry6
North Berwick6
Keith4
#39 of 221for listed buildings per resident (127 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.

19 have more. Keith is level with Cupar, Forres, Galashiels and Largs. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Keith

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Keith4,554584—
Huntly4,628713—
Buckie9,059221—
In brief

Keith in brief

Keith has 58 listed buildings, 4 of them in the top category, including Seafield Avenue, Strathisla Distillery. Only 19 of the 221 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970. Most entries on the list, 84%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 6 people born here before 1900, the best known include James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795), John Strachan (1862) and Wilfrid George Kendrew (1884). The big year was 1972, when 35 of the 58 went on the list. Beyond that, it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Keith’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Keith?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 58 buildings inside Keith’s locality: 4 Category A, 30 Category B and 24 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Keith?

4, including Chapel Street, Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas and Presbytery, Church Road, St Rufus Church (Church of Scotland), Enclosing Walls and Gatepiers, Old Keith, Bridge over River Isla and Seafield Avenue, Strathisla Distillery.

Which street in Keith has the most listed buildings?

Mid Street (6), Regent Street (6) and Land Street (4) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Keith?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Milton Tower,Keith.

How many conservation areas are there in Keith?

2, covering about 10 hectares of the town. The largest are Keith Mid Street and Keith Fife Keith.

When were Keith’s buildings listed?

The first in 1972; the most, 35, in 1972.

Who was born in Keith?

Among people born before 1900: James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795), John Strachan (1862), Wilfrid George Kendrew (1884), George Maclean (1801) and George Sellar (1850).

Keith 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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