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2 the Strand, Former Townhouse2 the Strand, Former Townhouse · Photo: Peter Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Beith · Historic Environment Scotland

66 listed buildings, 35 of them in the second category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Beith’s locality, 114 for every 10,000 residents. Category C covers 31 of Beith’s listed buildings. We have photos of 10 of its listed buildings.

35Category B15on Eglinton Street
Listed buildings
66
114 per 10,000 residents
Category A
0
national importance
Category B
35
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
In pictures

Beith in 10 photos

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62 Eglinton Street, Whang House, Including Ruined Chapel to Rear, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers62 Eglinton Street, Whang House, Including Ruined Chapel to Rear, Boundary Walls and GatepiersCategory B listedThe Cross, Old Parish Church and Burial Ground, Including Vault and Boundary WallsThe Cross, Old Parish Church and Burial Ground, Including Vault and Boundary WallsCategory C listedJanefield Place, War MemorialJanefield Place, War MemorialCategory C listed41 Laigh Road and 43 Woodside Road Victoria Villa, Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers41 Laigh Road and 43 Woodside Road Victoria Villa, Including Boundary Walls and GatepiersCategory B listed12 the Strand, Including Boundary Walls12 the Strand, Including Boundary WallsCategory B listed+5See 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 Beith’s history is

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

Arran Crescent, The Meadows, Including Meadows Cottage (Former Service Wing), Category BBigholm Road, Hamilfield, Including Walled Garden and Boundary Walls, Category BGeilsland Road, Geilsland Church of Scotland School, Category BHead Street, Former United Free Church, Including Boundary Walls, Railings, Gates and Gatepiers, Category BKirk Road, High Church, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates, Category B1 Glebe Road, The Old Manse, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Railings, Category B10 and 12 Eglinton Street, Saracen's Head, Category B12 Glebe Road, Craigallan, Category B12 the Strand, Including Boundary Walls, Category B13-17 (Odd Nos) Eglinton Street, Anderson Hotel, Category B19-23 (Odd Nos) Eglinton Street, Category B2 and 2A Barrmill Road, Knockbuckle and Knockbuckle Cottage, Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category B2 the Strand, Former Townhouse, Category B2-6 (Even Nos) Reform Street, Category B20 and 22 the Cross, Category B24-28 (Even Nos) the Cross, Category B26-30 (Even Nos) Main Street, Category B30 the Cross, Category B31 Braehead, Clydesdale Bank, Including Boundary Walls, Category B32 Eglinton Street, Bank of Scotland, Category B33 and 35 Eglinton Street, Category B35-45 (Odd Nos) Main Street, Beith Library, Category B37 Eglinton Street, Including Stairs, Boundary Walls, Railings and Gatepiers to Rear, Category B4 Barrmill Road, Taynish, Including Boundary Walls Railings and Gatepiers, Category B41 Laigh Road and 43 Woodside Road Victoria Villa, Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category B44 Eglinton Street, Category B46 Eglinton Street, Category B53 and 55 Main Street, The Smugglers Tavern, Category B62 Eglinton Street, Whang House, Including Ruined Chapel to Rear, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category B64 Eglinton Street, Including Outbuilding, Category B65 Wilson Street, Barrington House, Including Former Coachhouse, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates, Category B72 Eglinton Street, Category B74 Eglinton Street, Category B76 Eglinton Street,Including Boundary Walls and Ancillary Buildings, Category B87 Eglinton Street, Including Boundary Walls and Outbuilding to Rear, Category B
Category B

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66 listed buildings by grade
0 Category A35 Category B31 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 B

The 35 Category B listed buildings in Beith

Buildings of regional importance. 8 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Show the other 23
What’s protected

Most of Beith’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas58
Walls, gates & bridges6
Public & civic buildings1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

58 entries (88%) are houses, terraces and villas.

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

31 Category C listed buildings

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

All 31 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Janefield Place, War MemorialMitchell Street Roman Catholic Church (Former United Free), Including Gates, Gatepiers and Boundary WallsThe Cross, Old Parish Church and Burial Ground, Including Vault and Boundary WallsWilson Street, Beith Trinity Church (Church of Scotland), Including Hall, Boundary Walls, Railings and Gatepiers10 Dalry Road14 and 16 Eglinton Street15-19 (Odd Nos) Main Street, Including Return to Reform Street and Former Bakery Buildings to Rear1620 (Even Nos) Main Street17 and 19 Wilson Street18-22 (Even Nos) Eglinton Street, Irvine's the Baker2 and 4 Eglinton Street22 and 24 Main Street25-31 (Odd Nos) Eglinton Street, Former Post Office29 Braehead31 Head Street, Including Former Byre to Rear32 and 34 Main Street, Blackwood the Butchers'35 Wilson Street35A Wilson Street, Newton House39 and 41 Eglinton Street40 and 42 Eglinton Street43 Eglinton Street45 Eglinton Street5-9 (Odd Nos) the Strand57-61 (Odd Nos) Main Street58-62 (Even Nos) Main Street6 and 8 Eglinton Street60 Eglinton Street63 Wilson Street, Dunlop Cottage, Including Boundary Walls66 Eglinton Street70 Eglinton Street9 Eglinton Street and 1, 3 the Strand
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 3% of Beith

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

Beith 19706 ha
6 hain conservation areas, of 209 ha inside the locality.

48 of the 66 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

28 of Beith’s 66 listed buildings were added in 1980

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

1980 · 281971 · 232004 · 12
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 1 entry was listed in 1970. 28 came in 1980, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Born here

20 notable people born in Beith before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

John Montgomerie
James Kerr
James Wilson
Archibald Clark
James Clark
Henry Faulds
William McGuire
David Russell
James Brogan
Bill McPherson
George Higgins
Jock Walker
Paddy Travers
Marjory Newbold
Tommy Chalmers
Bob Craig
John Bruce-Lockhart
Tommy Fleming
Rob Lockhart
William Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick
1650170017501800185019001950
Henry Faulds
Henry Faulds1843–1930 · Scottish physician, missionary and scientist (1843–1930)
RL
Rob Lockhart1893–1981 · British Indian Army general (1893–1981)
TF
Tommy Fleming1890–1965 · Scottish-American soccer player (1890-1965)
WM
William McGuire1860– · Association football player (1860-?)
JW
Jock Walker1882–1968 · Scottish footballer (1882-1968)
Archibald Clark
Archibald Clark1805–1875 · New Zealand politician
James Clark
James Clark1833–1898 · New Zealand mayor
BM
Bill McPherson1869–1961 · Scottish footballer

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Beith

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Beith5,773660—
Kilbirnie7,110241—
Lochwinnoch2,769341—
Dalry5,274600—
Stewarton7,870280—
Kilbarchan3,367662—
Kilwinning16,22471—
Johnstone16,477220—
In brief

Beith in brief

Beith has 66 listed buildings, including 2 the Strand, Former Townhouse. Eglinton Street alone has 15 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Most entries on the list, 88%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 20 people born here before 1900, the best known include Henry Faulds (1843), Rob Lockhart (1893) and Tommy Fleming (1890). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Category A building.

Questions about Beith’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Beith?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 66 buildings inside Beith’s locality: 0 Category A, 35 Category B and 31 Category C.

How many conservation areas are there in Beith?

1, covering about 6 hectares of the town. The largest is Beith.

When were Beith’s buildings listed?

The first in 1970; the most, 28, in 1980.

Who was born in Beith?

Among people born before 1900: Henry Faulds (1843), Rob Lockhart (1893), Tommy Fleming (1890), William McGuire (1860) and Jock Walker (1882).

Beith 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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