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History of Coatbridge · Historic Environment Scotland

39 listed buildings, 25 of them in the second category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Coatbridge’s locality, 9.2 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 4 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 17 of its listed buildings.

25Category B4scheduled monuments
Listed buildings
39
9.2 per 10,000 residents
Category A
0
national importance
Category B
25
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
4
nationally important sites
In pictures

Coatbridge in 18 photos

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Dunbeth Road, Municipal Buildings, Including Boundary Walls,_Railings, Gatepiers and GatesDunbeth Road, Municipal Buildings, Including Boundary Walls,_Railings, Gatepiers and GatesCategory B listedAcademy Street, Carnegie Library, Including Boundary Wall and GatepiersAcademy Street, Carnegie Library, Including Boundary Wall and GatepiersCategory B listedRailway Bridge over Coatbridge CrossRailway Bridge over Coatbridge CrossCategory B listedHoly Trinity and All Saints Roman Catholic Church, Muiryhall Street East and Quarry StreetHoly Trinity and All Saints Roman Catholic Church, Muiryhall Street East and Quarry StreetCategory C listedBank Street, Coatbridge War MemorialBank Street, Coatbridge War MemorialCategory C listed+13See 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 Coatbridge’s history is

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

Monkland Canal, 200m E of Cuilhill Road to West Canal Street, scheduled monumentMonkland Canal, Coatbank Street to Paddock Street, Coatbridge, scheduled monumentMonkland Canal, Gartsherrie Branch, Summerlee, scheduled monumentSummerlee Iron Works,furnaces,furnace bank and associated works, scheduled monumentAcademy Street, Carnegie Library, Including Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category BAcademy Street, Gartsherrie Academy Primary School Including Playground Walls, Category BCalder Street/26 Bute Street, Calder Parish Church, Including Manse, Gatepiers and Railings, Category BCentral Station (Now Pullmans) K6 Telephone Kiosk, Category BCoats Church Jackson Street and Muiryhall Street, Category BDrumpellier Farm, Category BDunbeth Road, Municipal Buildings, Including Boundary Walls,_Railings, Gatepiers and Gates, Category BDundyvan Church Henderson Street Oxford Street and Kirk Street., Category BDundyvan Road, St Augustine (Rc Church) Including Sacristy, Presbytery, Hall, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BGartsherrie Parish Church, Category BGartsherrie Road, Sunnyside Station, Category BGraveyard, Category BHozier Street, St Mary (Rc Church) Including Presbytery, Hall, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BKirkshaws Road 1, 2, 3 and 4 Kirkstyle Cottages Including Boundary Wall, Category BLamberton's Engineering Works, Sunnyside Road and Russell Colt Street, Category BMain Street, Airdrie Savings Bank, Category BOld Monkland Church, Category BRailway Bridge over Coatbridge Cross, Category BRailway and Foot Bridge over Former Monkland Canal (West Bridge) Including Access Stair Building, Category BSt Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Including Walls, Piers, Gates and Fencing, Main Street, Coatbridge, Category BWeir Street, Dunbeth Church, Including Boundary Wall, Category B453 Main Street, Monklands District Magistrates Court, Category B5 Carradale Road, Former Cattle Market, Including Lodge, Outbuilding, Gatepiers and Walls Facing West Canal Street, And Wall at Carradale Road, Category B51 Blairhill Street, Kenilworth House, Category B59-65 (Odd Nos) Main Street and 1 Church Street, Category B
Category BScheduled monument

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39 listed buildings by grade
0 Category A25 Category B14 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 25 Category B listed buildings in Coatbridge

Buildings of regional importance. 15 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Show the other 13
What’s protected

The largest group of Coatbridge’s listed buildings is walls, gates and bridges

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

Walls, gates & bridges16
Houses, terraces & villas10
Churches, chapels & priories7
Public & civic buildings3
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Inns, shops & warehouses1

10 entries (26%) are houses, terraces and villas. 7 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

14 Category C listed buildings

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

All 14 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Albert Street, Coatbridge High School, Including Gatepiers,_Boundary Walls and RailingsBank Street and Blair Road, Langloan Primary School with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and RailingsBank Street, Coatbridge War MemorialColtswood Road, Greenhill Primary School, Including Boundary Walls, Railings and GatesGartsherrie Road, Gartsherrie Primary SchoolHeritage Way, Summerlee Gatehouse Including Boundary WallHoly Trinity and All Saints Roman Catholic Church, Muiryhall Street East and Quarry StreetMain Street, Whitelaw Memorial FountainMuiryhall Street East, Former Coatdyke Parish Church, Including Hall, Boundary Walls and GatepiersSt John Street St John the Evangelist Episcopal ChurchWest Canal Street and Heritage Way, Former Caledonian Railway Station, With Gatepiers and Railings1 Ross Street and 1 - 13 (Odd Nos) Bank Street163 Bank Street, (Former Union Bank) Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers27, 29 Main Street, Coia's Building
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 6.5% of Coatbridge

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

Blairhill and Dunbeth 197087 ha
87 hain conservation areas, of 1,324 ha inside the locality.

21 of the 39 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

11 of Coatbridge’s 39 listed buildings were added in 1993

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

1993 · 112004 · 7
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 3 entries were listed in 1971. 11 came in 1993. 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.

4 scheduled monuments

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

Monkland Canal, Gartsherrie Branch, Summerlee
Born here

24 notable people born in Coatbridge before 1900

The 20 best known on one timeline, earliest first.

Robert Lees
Alexander Watson
James Dunlop
Billy Copeland
Laurentia McLachlan
Bob Donaldson
Mary Isabella Lee
Adam Scott
Peter McWhannell
John Primrose Hay
Tom Gentleman
David Greenaway
Jimmy Torrance
John Eadon
Margaret Skinnider
Joe Kissock
Jock White
Harold Plenderleith
Christina Cruickshank Miller
Eddie MacLaine
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BD
Bob Donaldson1868–1947 · Scottish football player (1868-1947)
Margaret Skinnider
Margaret Skinnider1892–1971 · Irish republican activist
CM
Christina Cruickshank Miller1899–2001 · Scottish chemist
DG
David Greenaway1886–1946 · Scottish footballer (1886-1946)
JT
Jimmy Torrance1889–1949 · Footballer (1889-1949)
JW
Jock White1897–1986 · Scottish footballer (1897-1986)
HP
Harold Plenderleith1898–1997 · British archaeologist (1898-1997)
EM
Eddie MacLaine1899–1972 · Scottish-Canadian soccer player (1899-1972)

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Coatbridge

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Coatbridge42,256390—
Bargeddie3,56710—
Airdrie35,847530—
Viewpark15,83220—
Glenboig3,03510—
Bellshill19,48830—
Gartcosh3,25210—
Uddingston6,181181—
In brief

Coatbridge in brief

The official list counts 39 listed buildings in Coatbridge, including Gartsherrie Road, Sunnyside Station. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Bob Donaldson (1868), Margaret Skinnider (1892) and Christina Cruickshank Miller (1899) are among the 24 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has no Category A building, where the middle town its size has 4; and it also has 4 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Coatbridge’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Coatbridge?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 39 buildings inside Coatbridge’s locality: 0 Category A, 25 Category B and 14 Category C.

Are there scheduled monuments in Coatbridge?

Yes, 4 scheduled monuments, including Monkland Canal, 200m E of Cuilhill Road to West Canal Street, Monkland Canal, Coatbank Street to Paddock Street, Coatbridge, Monkland Canal, Gartsherrie Branch, Summerlee and Summerlee Iron Works,furnaces,furnace bank and associated works.

How many conservation areas are there in Coatbridge?

1, covering about 87 hectares of the town. The largest is Blairhill and Dunbeth.

When were Coatbridge’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 11, in 1993.

Who was born in Coatbridge?

Among people born before 1900: Bob Donaldson (1868), Margaret Skinnider (1892), Christina Cruickshank Miller (1899), David Greenaway (1886) and Jimmy Torrance (1889).

Coatbridge 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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