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County Buildings 21-25 High StreetCounty Buildings 21-25 High Street · Photo: Martin Addison · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Kinross · Historic Environment Scotland

31 listed buildings, 18 of them in the second category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Kinross’s locality, 55 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 7 of its listed buildings.

18Category B1scheduled monument
Listed buildings
31
55 per 10,000 residents
Category A
0
national importance
Category B
18
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
1
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures

Kinross in 7 photos

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49 Muirs, The Muirs Inn Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls49 Muirs, The Muirs Inn Including Gatepiers and Boundary WallsCategory C listedMercat Cross SandportMercat Cross SandportCategory B listedKinross West, Church of Scotland, (Kinross Parish Kirk) Station Road.Kinross West, Church of Scotland, (Kinross Parish Kirk) Station Road.Category B listed110 High Street, Former Town Hall110 High Street, Former Town HallCategory B listedThe Clock Tower, High StreetThe Clock Tower, High StreetCategory B listed+2See 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 Kinross’s history is

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

Kinross House, garden or designed landscapeLathro Cottage, enclosure 375m SSE of, scheduled monument'Mossgrove', 18 Muirs, Category BClydesdale Bank 37 High Street, Category BCounty Buildings 21-25 High Street, Category BKinross West, Church of Scotland, (Kinross Parish Kirk) Station Road., Category BKirkland's Hotel 20 High Street, Category BMercat Cross Sandport, Category BMunicipal Chambers 18 High Street, Category BOld County Building 109-113 High Street, Category BOld Manse, 8 Sandport, Category BSalutation Inn, 99 High Street, Category BThe Bank House, Former British Linen Bank, 2 High Street, Category BThe Clock Tower, High Street, Category BThe Muirs, St Paul's Episcopal Church Including Boundary Walls and Piers, Category BTurfhills House, Category B108 High Street (Old Post Office), Category B110 High Street, Former Town Hall, Category B3 and 5 School Wynd, Category B98, 100, 102 High Street, Category B
Category BScheduled monumentPark or garden

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

31 listed buildings by grade
0 Category A18 Category B13 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 18 Category B listed buildings in Kinross

Buildings of regional importance. 6 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Show the other 6
What’s protected

Most of Kinross’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas18
Inns, shops & warehouses6
Public & civic buildings3
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Walls, gates & bridges2

18 entries (58%) 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

13 Category C listed buildings

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

All 13 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Church Hall (Old East U.P. Church)Fountain, High StreetLevenbank, including boundary wall and gate piers, 12 High Street, KinrossLoch Leven Inn 6 Swan's AcreOld Red Lion Inn (Annexe to Victoria Bar)Victoria Bar 121-123 High Street10 Brewery Lane11, 13 School Wynd112 High Street, Carnegie Public Library12 Brewery Lane49 Muirs, The Muirs Inn Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls7, 9, School Wynd8 School Wynd and 5 Swan's Acre (Tighnuilt)
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 9.9% of Kinross

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

Kinross 197026 ha
26 hain conservation areas, of 260 ha inside the locality.

28 of the 31 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

13 of Kinross’s 31 listed buildings were added in 1971

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

1971 · 131974 · 81981 · 5
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 13 entries were listed in 1971. 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.

Lathro Cottage, enclosure 375m SSE ofPrehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement

1 garden or designed landscape

Kinross HouseGarden and designed landscape
Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Kinross

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Kinross5,611310—
Ballingry5,82310—
Kelty6,89880—
Lochgelly7,15760—
Cowdenbeath and Lumphinnans11,97920—
Cardenden and Auchterderran5,26690—
Leslie2,888630—
Crossgates2,99300—
In brief

Kinross in brief

Kinross has 31 listed buildings, including County Buildings 21-25 High Street. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Most entries on the list, 58%, are houses, terraces and villas. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Category A building; Charlie Duncan (1889) and Peter Leitch (1820) were born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Kinross’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Kinross?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 31 buildings inside Kinross’s locality: 0 Category A, 18 Category B and 13 Category C.

Are there scheduled monuments in Kinross?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Lathro Cottage, enclosure 375m SSE of.

How many conservation areas are there in Kinross?

1, covering about 26 hectares of the town. The largest is Kinross.

When were Kinross’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 13, in 1971.

Kinross 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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