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Two Monuments Within Houston and Kilellan ChurchTwo Monuments Within Houston and Kilellan Church · Photo: colin houston · CC BY 2.0
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History of Houston · Historic Environment Scotland

16 listed buildings, 1 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Houston’s locality, 26 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings.

1Category A12Category B1scheduled monument
Listed buildings
16
26 per 10,000 residents
Category A
1
national importance
Category B
12
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
In pictures

Houston in 6 photos

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Fox & Hounds Inn, South Street & Redholm Main Street, Houston VillageFox & Hounds Inn, South Street & Redholm Main Street, Houston VillageCategory B listedSt. Fillan's R.C. Church and Attached Presbytery and Former School, Fourwindings, HoustonSt. Fillan's R.C. Church and Attached Presbytery and Former School, Fourwindings, HoustonCategory B listedHouston Village Houston & Kilellan Parish Church, Kirk Road, Houston VillageHouston Village Houston & Kilellan Parish Church, Kirk Road, Houston VillageCategory B listedHouston Village, South Street, Mercat CrossHouston Village, South Street, Mercat CrossCategory B listedMain Street, Houston Primary SchoolMain Street, Houston Primary SchoolCategory B listed+1See 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 Houston’s history is

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

Houston South Mound, cairn 155m W of Gryffe High School, scheduled monument"Barrfield" Main Street, Category B"Kilmory" South St., Category B"Lamorna", South Street, Houston Village, Category B"Woodend", Houston Road, Category BCotswold and Kersland, South Street, Category BFox & Hounds Inn, South Street & Redholm Main Street, Houston Village, Category BHouston Cottage and Ancillary Buildings North Street, Category BHouston House Houston, Category BHouston Village Houston & Kilellan Parish Church, Kirk Road, Houston Village, Category BHouston Village, South Street, Mercat Cross, Category BMain Street, Houston Primary School, Category BSt. Fillan's R.C. Church and Attached Presbytery and Former School, Fourwindings, Houston, Category BTwo Monuments Within Houston and Kilellan Church, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument

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16 listed buildings by grade
1 Category A12 Category B3 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 Category A listed building in Houston

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 12 Category B listed buildings in Houston

Buildings of regional importance. 5 are photographed.

Category C

3 Category C listed buildings

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

All 3 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
"Rowantree" South Street"Shoreston" South StreetCochrane's Place Nw Corner of South Street and Main Street, Houston Village.
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 13% of Houston

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

Houston 197033 ha
33 hain conservation areas, of 259 ha inside the locality.

13 of the 16 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 Houston’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1971

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

1971 · 9
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 9 entries were listed in 1971, 1 of the 1 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.

Houston South Mound, cairn 155m W of Gryffe High SchoolPrehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Houston

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Houston6,206161—
Linwood8,40810—
Bridge of Weir4,927260—
Kilbarchan3,367662—
Johnstone16,477220—
Elderslie5,63240—
Bishopton10,04810—
Kilmacolm3,876162—
In brief

Houston in brief

The official list counts 16 listed buildings in Houston, 1 of them in the top category, including Two Monuments Within Houston and Kilellan Church. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. The big year was 1971, when 9 of the 16 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Category A building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 0); Alice Robson (1870) and Alex Wylie (1872) were born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Houston’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Houston?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 16 buildings inside Houston’s locality: 1 Category A, 12 Category B and 3 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Houston?

One: Two Monuments Within Houston and Kilellan Church.

Are there scheduled monuments in Houston?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Houston South Mound, cairn 155m W of Gryffe High School.

How many conservation areas are there in Houston?

1, covering about 33 hectares of the town. The largest is Houston.

When were Houston’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 9, in 1971.

Houston 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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