Photo: Rosser1954 · CC BY-SA 4.04 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top category
On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Shotts’s locality, 4.5 for every 10,000 residents. 2 of Shotts’s listed buildings are Category B.
Where Shotts’s history is
Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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.
The Category A listed building in Shotts
Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
The 2 Category B listed buildings in Shotts
Buildings of regional importance.
1 Category C listed building
This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 1 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
8 notable people born in Shotts before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in Shotts → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Listed buildings in the places around Shotts
Shotts in brief
The official list counts 4 listed buildings in Shotts, 1 of them in the top category. Of the 8 people born here before 1900, the best known include Matthew Baillie (1761), Willie Orr (1873) and Charlie Rennox (1897). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Category A building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); and the list grew between 1996 and 2005.
Questions about Shotts’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Shotts?
Historic Environment Scotland lists 4 buildings inside Shotts’s locality: 1 Category A, 2 Category B and 1 Category C.
What are the Category A listed buildings in Shotts?
One: Shotts, Calderhead Road, Centrelink 5 (Former Cummins Engine Company Ltd), Including Boiler House to Nw and Entrance Gates.
Who was born in Shotts?
Among people born before 1900: Matthew Baillie (1761), Willie Orr (1873), Charlie Rennox (1897), Patrick Slavin (1877) and Thomas Torrance (1871).
Shotts 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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