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History of Eyemouth · Historic Environment Scotland

54 listed buildings, 2 of them in the top category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Eyemouth’s locality, 146 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 9 of its listed buildings.

Listed buildings
54
146 per 10,000 residents
Category A
2
national importance
Category B
12
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
2
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures

Eyemouth in 10 photos

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

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 Eyemouth’s history is

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

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 2 Category A listed buildings in Eyemouth

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category B

The 12 Category B listed buildings in Eyemouth

Buildings of regional importance. 4 are photographed.

Historic streets

Armatage Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

Armatage Street4 listed
Church Street3 listed
Harbour Road3 listed
St Ella's Place3 listed · 1 II*
12, 13, 14 St Ella's Place

Of the 54 entries, 30 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Eyemouth’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas42
Churches, chapels & priories4
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Public & civic buildings3
Walls, gates & bridges2

42 entries (78%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 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

40 Category C listed buildings

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

All 40 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 21% of Eyemouth

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

Eyemouth 197033 ha
33 hain conservation areas, of 160 ha inside the locality.

53 of the 54 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 Eyemouth’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1979

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

1979 · 48
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 1 entry was listed in 1967, 1 of the 2 Category A buildings among them. 48 came in 1979, as Scotland’s list was resurveyed from the 1970s. 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.

2 scheduled monuments

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

Eyemouth Fort
Eyemouth FortSecular: fort (non-prehistoric)
The Corn Fort,EyemouthSecular: fort (non-prehistoric)

1 garden or designed landscape

NetherbyresGarden and designed landscape
Towns its size

Eyemouth has the 27th most Category A buildings of 195 towns its size

Scottish towns of 1,000–9,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Eyemouth2
#32 of 195for listed buildings per resident (146 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.

26 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Eyemouth

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Eyemouth3,698542—
Berwick-upon-Tweed13,18129114A+
Duns3,1171570—
In brief

Eyemouth in brief

Eyemouth has 54 listed buildings, 2 of them in the top category, including Old Quay Harbour Road Joiners' Yard to Rear of No 4 Old Quay (Cook and Martin Joiners). Only 26 of the 195 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Of the whole list, 78% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1979: 48 of 54. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: George Dougal (1875) and Adam Miller (1883) were born here before 1900; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Eyemouth’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Eyemouth?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 54 buildings inside Eyemouth’s locality: 2 Category A, 12 Category B and 40 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Eyemouth?

2, including Gunsgreen House and Terrace Retaining Wall. (Eyemouth Golf Club and Border Sailing Club) and 11 Church Street, Chester House.

Which street in Eyemouth has the most listed buildings?

Armatage Street (4), Church Street (3) and Harbour Road (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Eyemouth?

Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Eyemouth Fort and The Corn Fort,Eyemouth.

How many conservation areas are there in Eyemouth?

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

When were Eyemouth’s buildings listed?

The first in 1967; the most, 48, in 1979.

Eyemouth 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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