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History of Galashiels · Historic Environment Scotland

93 listed buildings, 4 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Galashiels’s locality, 92 for every 10,000 residents. Category C covers 67 of Galashiels’s listed buildings. We have photos of 22 of its listed buildings.

4Category A22Category B
Listed buildings
93
92 per 10,000 residents
Category A
4
national importance
Category B
22
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures

Galashiels in 23 photos

Nearly every Category A and B building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Nether Road, Gala Fairydean Football StadiumNether Road, Gala Fairydean Football StadiumCategory A listedScott Crescent, Old Gala House Including Boundary WallsScott Crescent, Old Gala House Including Boundary WallsCategory A listedSelkirk Road Kingsknowes Hotel Including ConservatorySelkirk Road Kingsknowes Hotel Including ConservatoryCategory A listedBotany Lane, Former Glasite ChapelBotany Lane, Former Glasite ChapelCategory B listedAbbotsford Road and Parsonage Road, St Peter's Episcopal Church with Boundary Walls and RailingsAbbotsford Road and Parsonage Road, St Peter's Episcopal Church with Boundary Walls and RailingsCategory C listed+18See 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 Galashiels’s history is

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

Abbotsford, garden or designed landscapeAbbotsford Road, Aisle and Tombstones Including Graveyard, Boundary Walls and Gates, Category BAbbotsford Road, Brunswickhill, Including Conservatory, Grotto, Game Store, Gate Piers and Boundary Walls, Category BAlbert Place, Burgh Chambers and Clock Tower, Including War Memorials, Ballustrading and Steps, Category BBotany Lane, Former Glasite Chapel, Category BBridge Street, Scottish Enterprise Borders (Former Maxwell Hotel), Category BCornmill Square, Equestrian Statue of a Border Reiver, Category BCornmill Square, Fountain, Category BDale Street, Netherdale Mill, Category BEdinburgh Road, Bristol Mill, Category BHigh Street, Trinity Church and Halls (Church of Scotland), Category BHuddersfield Street, Gala Mill, Category BMarket Street, Our Lady and St Andrew's Church, (Roman Catholic) and Stirling Street, Catholic Presbytery Including Boundary Walls and Railings, Category BScott Crescent, Old Parish and St Pauls Church, (Church of Scotland) Church Hall Including Boundary Walls, Category BTweed Terrace, Lucy Sanderson Cottage Homes and Ida Hayward Cottages, Category B1 Channel Street, Galashiels Post Office, Category B17 Abbotsford Road, Willowbush, With Boundary Walls, Category B23 Bridge Street, Former Hand Loom Shop, Including Boundary Wall to Se, Category B3 and 5 Albert Place, (Former George Sutherland and Sons Sculpters Yard) Inclduing Boundary Walls, Railings, Gatepiers and Gates, Category B35 Bank Street, Royal Bank of Scotland, Category B42 Abbotsford Road, Maplehurst Guesthouse, Including Boundary Walls Gatepiers and Gate Posts, Category B56 Abbotsford Road, Abbotshill with Boundary Walls and Garden Features, Category B58, 60 Abbotsford Road, Netherby, Including Lodge, Walled Garden, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BNether Road, Gala Fairydean Football Stadium, Category AScott Crescent, Old Gala House Including Boundary Walls, Category ASelkirk Road Kingsknowes Hotel Including Conservatory, Category AWindyknowe Road, Woodlands House Including Boundary Walls, Category A
Category ACategory BPark or garden

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

93 listed buildings by grade
4 Category A22 Category B67 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 4 Category A listed buildings in Galashiels

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. 3 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category B

The 22 Category B listed buildings in Galashiels

Buildings of regional importance. 17 are photographed.

Show the other 10
What’s protected

Most of Galashiels’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas54
Walls, gates & bridges22
Inns, shops & warehouses7
Public & civic buildings4
Memorials, crosses & tombs4
Churches, chapels & priories2

54 entries (58%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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

67 Category C listed buildings

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

All 67 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Abbotsford Road and Parsonage Road, St Peter's Episcopal Church with Boundary Walls and RailingsAppletree Leaves Former Stable and Remains of Ladhope TowerBank Street Brae, Round Tree Bridge and Commemorative Pillars, Including Railings and Sction of Mill LadeBarr Road, Galahill House, Including Service WingBarr Road, Old Parish Manse Including Courtyard, Former Stable, Boudnary Walls and GatesBoleside Road, Railway FootbridgeBridge Street, Saint Andrew's Arts Centre (Former Ladhope Free Church and Halls), With Railings, Gates and GatepiersCornmill Square, Monument to Sir Walter ScottEdinburgh Road, Buckholmburn House with Boundary WallGala Park, Burgh Primary School, (Formerly Burgh School) Ancillary Structures, Boundary Walls, Steps, Railings and Lamp StandardsKing Street, Former Tweed Mill, Main Range and the PirnsKirk Brae, Rowantree Butts, Including Coach House, Greenhouse, Summerhouse, Boundary Walls and RailingsLadhope BridgeLadhope Vale HouseLadhope Vale, Former Ladhope Parish Church HallLadhope Vale, Riverside House, Former Hand Loom MillLawyer's Brae, Bust of Robert BurnsLawyers Brae, Public Library and Including Boundary Walls and RailingsMarket Street, Anderson's Chambers with Gate, Gatepiers and RailingsMelrose Road, Thorniedean House Including Boundary Walls, Railings and GatepiersNetherdale, Galamoor HouseNethernbarns Farmhouse, Steading and Stable CottageRoxburgh Street and Botany Lane, Morrison and Murray Engineering WorksRoxburgh Street, Botany Mill, High MillScott Crescent, Galashiels Bowling Club and Boundary WallsScott Crescent, Mercat CrossScott Crescent, Scott Park Gate Lodge, Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary WallsSt John Street, Hayward HallSt John's Street, Volunteer Hall, Boundary Wall and RailingsTweed Road, Galavale House and Galavale Lodge, (Former Cottage Hospital)Tweed Road, Kingsknowes Lodge Including Entrance Gateway and Garden WallsWindyknowe Road, Woodlands Gatelodge, Former Coach House and Rose Cottage Including Entrance Gateway1 Overhaugh Street, Former Salvation Army Citadel1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 Tea Street and Including Boundary Walls10 Abbotsford Road, Former St Peter's Hall Including Boundary Walls112 High Street, Public House (Former Royal Bank of Scotland)119-153 (Odd Nos) High Street and 1-5 (Odd Nos) Roxburgh Street (Former Co-Operative Department Store)12, 14 Roxburgh Stret and Union Street, Former Workshop and House, With Boundary Walls17-21 (Odd Nos) High Street2 Channel Street and 2-12 (Even Nos) High Street, Victoria Buildings22 Abbotsford Road, Rowanlee22 High Street and 1 Sime Place, The Harrow Inn and Ancillary Building23 Scott Crescent, The Hall (The Old Cloth Hall) Including Boudnary Walls and Gateway23 and 23A Abbotsford Road, Pollenca, With Boundary Walls28 and 29 Bank Street, Including Single Storey Extension to Rear3, 5, 7 Channel Street, Bank of Scotland34 and 46 Channel Street36 and 38 Gala Park37, 37A, 38 and 38A Bank Street4 and 6 Abbotsford Road, Scottish Borders Council Social Work Department (Former St Peters School and Schoolhouse) and Including Boundary Walls, Rialings and Former Playground40 Abbotsford Road and Hayward Drive, Binniemyre, Wth Garden Features and Boundary Walls42 Bank Street (Former Liberal Club)46, 48 High Street, Former Bank47 and 49 Ladhope Vale, Ladhope Centre (Former Border Textile and Engineering Supplies Company) with Boudnary Wall49-57 (Odd Nos), Channel Street and Douglas Bridge, Former Douglas Hotel5-7 (Inclusive Nos) Bank Street54 Abbotsford Road, Abbotshill Lodge and Gateway56 Market Street, King's Hotel57 and 58 Bank Street, The Auld Mill Inn, Public House62 Bank Street, Corner House67 Gala Park, Former Schoolhouse, Boundary Walls and Railings69 High Street, Reivers Pool Hall, (Former Unionist Club)69-77 (Inclusive) Kirk Brae Including Boundary Walls, Steps, Walkways and Railings7 and 9 Bridge Place79 High Street (Former Commercial Bank)81 and 83 High Street9 Abbotsford Road, Wakefield Bank Including Glasshouse and Boundary Walls
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 2.7% of Galashiels

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

Galashiels 197011 ha
11 hain conservation areas, of 397 ha inside the locality.

33 of the 93 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 Galashiels’s listed buildings were added in one year, 2006

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

2006 · 561979 · 121971 · 10
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 10 entries were listed in 1971, 1 of the 4 Category A buildings among them. 56 came in 2006. 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 garden or designed landscape

Abbotsford
AbbotsfordGarden and designed landscape
Born here

10 notable people born in Galashiels before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

David Stirling
J. B. Selkirk
Arthur Lapworth
Peter Kemp
Thomas J. Clapperton
Dick Dalgleish
Jimmy Curran
Margaret Stirling Dobson
Willie Kivlichan
Anne Redpath
1800182518501875190019251950
PK
Peter Kemp1877–1965 · British swimmer and water polo player (1877–1965)
Arthur Lapworth
Arthur Lapworth1872–1941 · British chemist (1872–1941)
AR
Anne Redpath1895–1965 · Scottish modern painter (1895-1965)
DS
David Stirling1822–1887 · Architect
WK
Willie Kivlichan1890–1937 · Scottish footballer (1890-1937)
J. B. Selkirk
J. B. Selkirk1832–1904 · Poet and essayist
TC
Thomas J. Clapperton1879–1962 · British sculptor (1879–1962)
DD
Dick Dalgleish1880–1955 · Cricketer (1880-1955)

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

Towns its size

Galashiels has the 26th most Category A buildings of 183 towns its size

Scottish towns of 4,000–25,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
St Andrews20
Elgin13
Helensburgh13
Montrose11
Musselburgh11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Linlithgow9
Dalkeith8
Jedburgh8
Galashiels4
#41 of 183for listed buildings per resident (92 per 10,000). Rothesay, Jedburgh and Campbeltown lead.

25 have more. The typical town its size has 1.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Galashiels

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Galashiels10,071934—
Langlee3,53020—
Selkirk4,6691183—
Innerleithen3,152260—
In brief

Galashiels in brief

Galashiels has 93 listed buildings, 4 of them in the top category, including Nether Road, Gala Fairydean Football Stadium. Only 25 of the 183 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Of the whole list, 58% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 10 people born here before 1900, the best known include Peter Kemp (1877), Arthur Lapworth (1872) and Anne Redpath (1895). More than half went on the list in a single year, 2006: 56 of 93.

Questions about Galashiels’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Galashiels?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 93 buildings inside Galashiels’s locality: 4 Category A, 22 Category B and 67 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Galashiels?

4, including Nether Road, Gala Fairydean Football Stadium, Scott Crescent, Old Gala House Including Boundary Walls, Selkirk Road Kingsknowes Hotel Including Conservatory and Windyknowe Road, Woodlands House Including Boundary Walls.

How many conservation areas are there in Galashiels?

1, covering about 11 hectares of the town. The largest is Galashiels.

When were Galashiels’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 56, in 2006.

Who was born in Galashiels?

Among people born before 1900: Peter Kemp (1877), Arthur Lapworth (1872), Anne Redpath (1895), David Stirling (1822) and Willie Kivlichan (1890).

Galashiels 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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