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History of Jedburgh · Historic Environment Scotland

148 listed buildings, 8 of them in the top category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Jedburgh’s locality, 358 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 53 of its listed buildings and 1 old view of the town.

8Category A43Category B2scheduled monuments20on Castlegate
Listed buildings
148
358 per 10,000 residents
Category A
8
national importance
Category B
43
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
In pictures

Jedburgh in 56 photos and old views

Nearly every Category A and B building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Castlegate, Jedburgh Castle Old Jail with Exercise Yard Walls, Fortifications, Portcullis Gates, Entrance Gates and Outer Embankment WallCastlegate, Jedburgh Castle Old Jail with Exercise Yard Walls, Fortifications, Portcullis Gates, Entrance Gates and Outer Embankment WallCategory A listedNewcastle Road (And Oxnam Road), Old Parish Church with Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, (Church of Scotland)Newcastle Road (And Oxnam Road), Old Parish Church with Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, (Church of Scotland)Category A listedCastlegate, The Foresters ArmsCastlegate, The Foresters ArmsCategory C listedHigh Street Bank of Scotland with Boundary Wall and RailingsHigh Street Bank of Scotland with Boundary Wall and RailingsCategory B listedJedburgh Grammar School 1880s block, including gateway to east on Queen Street and excluding conservatory to southeast, rear extension and all other separate blocks (Thomson, Rutherford and Social DinJedburgh Grammar School 1880s block, including gateway to east on Queen Street and excluding conservatory to southeast, rear extension and all other separate blocks (Thomson, Rutherford and Social DinCategory C listed+51See 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.

Through time

Jedburgh in old photos

1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

Jedburgh Abbey, Roxburghshirec. 1793
GeorgianJedburgh Abbey, RoxburghshirePhoto: Thomas Girtin · Public domain

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

The map

Where Jedburgh’s history is

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

Jedburgh Abbey, 50m ESE of Abbey House, scheduled monumentJedburgh Franciscan Friary, scheduled monumentAbbey Bridge End, The Rampart, War Memorial with Balustrades, Steps and Walls, Category BAbbey Close, The Nest with Coach House, Boundary and Garden Walls and Railings, Category BAbbey Place, Public Hall, Category BBongate, Bongate Cottage and Gatepiers, Category BBridge Street, Townfoot Bridge, Category BCastlegate, Glenbank Hotel with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BCrown Lane, Crown Lane House with Boundary Wall and Railings, Category BDuck Row, The Piper's House, Category BFriars, Froylehurst with Conservatory, Category BFriarsgate, Friars Glen, Category BHigh Street Bank of Scotland with Boundary Wall and Railings, Category BHigh Street, British Legion Hall (Former Boston Church) with Boundary Walls, Piers and Railings, Category BHigh Street, K6 Telephone Kiosk at Post Office, Category BHigh Street, Trinity Church (Formerly Blackfriars with Church Offices, Gates Gatepiers, Railings and Boundary Wall, Category BJedburgh Sheriff Court and Justice Of The Peace Court (Former County Buildings) including wall and railings, Castlegate, Jedburgh, Category BMarket Place, Jubilee Fountain, Category BMarket Place, K6 Telephone Kiosk at Newgate, Category BNewcastle Road (And Oxnam Road), Kirkland House, (Former Manse), Coach House and Boundary Wall, Category BOld Bongate St Mary's Rc Church, Presbytery, Ancillary Accommodation, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BPleasance, St John's Church Centre, Category BSharplaw Road, Brae House with Forestairs and Railings, Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, Category BStation Road, Station Bridge, Category BWildcat Gate, Headkeeper's Cottage, Category B1 and 2 Castlegate, Category B1 and 3 Abbey Bridge End with Boundary Walls, Category B15 Castlegate, Carnegie Library, Category B19 High Street, Category B1A and 1B Old Bridge End, Category B20 High Street, Spread Eagle Hotel, With Stables to Rear, Category B24 High Street, Category B24-26 (Even Nos and 24A) Castlegate and 1 Abbey Close, Category B26 High Street, Category B3-5 (Inclusive Nos) Castlegate (To under Nags Head Close), Category B30 Castlegate, Category B32-34 (Even Nos) High Street, Category B36 High Street, Category B4 Boundaries, Category B46 Castlegate, Category B5-6 Market Place and 4-7 (Inclusive Nos) Burn Wynd, Category B6 and 7C Abbey Place, Category B7-11 (Odd Nos) Castlegate (Prince Charlie's House), 1-7 (Odd Nos) Blackhills Close and 1-2 Upper Nags Head Close, Category B7-8 Markjet Place and 4-7 (Inclusive Nos) Burn Wynd, Category B9 Market Place and 2 Burn Wynd, Category BAbbey Place, Newgate with Attached Wall, External Stair and Railings, Category ACanongate Bridge, Category ACastlegate, Jedburgh Castle Old Jail with Exercise Yard Walls, Fortifications, Portcullis Gates, Entrance Gates and Outer Embankment Wall, Category ANewcastle Road (And Oxnam Road), Old Parish Church with Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, (Church of Scotland), Category APleasance, St John's Episcopal Church with Lych Gate and Boundary Wall, Category AQueen Street, Queen Mary's House with Outbuildings, Boundary Wall and Railings, Category A11 Exchange Street, Category A3-5 (Odd Nos) Exchange Street, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument400 m from Abbey Place, Newgate with Attached Wall, External Stair and Railings
6 of 8Category A buildings stand within 400 m of Abbey Place, Newgate with Attached Wall, External Stair and Railings, a five-minute walk. So do 132 of the 148 listed buildings.

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

148 listed buildings by grade
8 Category A43 Category B97 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 8 Category A listed buildings in Jedburgh

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings; 6 of these stand within 400 m of Abbey Place, Newgate with Attached Wall, External Stair and Railings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category B

The 43 Category B listed buildings in Jedburgh

Buildings of regional importance. Every one is photographed.

Show the other 31
House · listed 19934 BoundariesPhoto: Victuallers · CC BY-SA 4.0
Historic streets

Castlegate 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.

Castlegate20 listed · 3 II*
1 and 2 Castlegate30 Castlegate46 Castlegate
High Street16 listed · 4 II*
19 High Street24 High Street26 High Street
Canongate3 listed
Exchange Street3 listed · 1 Category A
11 Exchange Street

Of the 148 entries, 76 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Jedburgh’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas105
Walls, gates & bridges33
Public & civic buildings8
Inns, shops & warehouses1
Churches, chapels & priories1

105 entries (71%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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

97 Category C listed buildings

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

All 97 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Abbey Close, The Abbey House with Boundary Wall and RailingsBridge Street, Bridge HouseCastlegate and Galahill, Castlewood Cemetery with Steps, Gates, Gatepiers and Surrounding WallCastlegate, Lynwell and Castle DeneCastlegate, Masonic HallCastlegate, Police StationCastlegate, The Foresters ArmsCrown Lane, Orwell Cottage and Dentist with Flat AboveFriars, Normanie with Cast-Iron Verandah, Terrace and StepsFriarsgate, Friars HouseFriarsgate, Friars Mount with Gatepiers and Quadrant WallsFriarsgate, Friars Yard with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and RailingsFriarsgate, Friarshall with Coach House Boundary Walls and GatepiersFriarsgate, Glenarvan (Formerly Norland) with Coach HouseFriarsgate, Glenfriars Hotel with Boundary Wall and GatepiersGalahill, The Hermitage with Gatepiers and Boundary WallsHigh Street, Trinity Manse with Gatepiers and Boundary WallJedburgh Grammar School 1880s block, including gateway to east on Queen Street and excluding conservatory to southeast, rear extension and all other separate blocks (Thomson, Rutherford and Social Dining blocks and Sports Centre and technical department)Newcastle Road, Allerley Well Park, Gatepiers, Drinking Fountain, Boundary Walls and Marker StoneOxnam Road, Allerley Brae, E CottageOxnam Road, Allerley Brae, W CottageOxnam Road, Boundary Bank with Entrance Gate and Coach HouseSharplaw Road, Birkhill with Associated Outbuildings, Including Hayloft and Coach House, And Boudary WallsWaterside, Hartrigge Lodge with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers1 Bridge Street, Maitland House1 High Street1 Market Place (And Abbey Place)1 and 2 Veitch's Close and 1 and I Fairbairns's Close (Rear of Foresters Arms)1,2,3 Duck Row1-10 (Inclusive Nos) Queen Street, Queen Mary's Buildings1-3 (Inclusive Nos) under Nags Head Close and Blackhills Close1-5 (Odd Nos) Canongate (Includes the Mercat Cafe)10 Canongate (Former Black Bull Inn)10 High Street and Grahamslaw Close Warehouse11-13 (Odd Nos) High Street12-14 (Even Nos) Canongate12-14 (Even Nos) High Street13 Exchange Street14A and B and 16 Canongate15 Exchange Street15 High Street16 High Street16-18 (even nos) Castlegate, Jedburgh17 High Street18 High Street19 Queen Street1A Smith's Wynd2 Abbey Place2 Bridge Street2 Canongate, Including Jedvale2 Smith's Wynd21 Canongate, Royal Hotel21-23 (Odd Nos) High Street22 High Street25-27 (Odd Nos) High Street27 Castlegate29-31 (Odd Nos) High Street3 High Street30 High Street33 High Street35 High Street38 High Street (Royal Bank of Scotland)39 High Street4 Canongate4-6 (Even Nos) High Street41-43 (Odd Nos) High Street45-47 (Odd Nos) High Street48 Castlegate49 High Street and 1 Smith's Wynd5 Abbey Place, Abbots Lea5 Boundaries, Boundary Villa with Wall and Railings5-7 (Odd Nos) High Street50 Castlegate55 Bongate, Balmanno House57 Castlegate59 and 61 Castlegate6 Canongate7 Canongate7-9 (Odd Nos) Exchange Street71 Castlegate72 Castlegate73A and B Castlegate74 Castlegate75 Castlegate76 Castlegate77 Castlegate8 Burn Wynd and 4 and 5 Cornelius Close, Canongate Gallery8 High Street and Grahamslaw Close81 Castlegate83 Castlegate85 Castlegate87 Castlegate89 Castlegate with Garden Walls89A Castlegate9 High Street91 Bongate with Gatepiers, Gates and Railings91 Castlegate with Garden Wall to Front
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 14% of Jedburgh

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

Jedburgh 197033 ha
33 hain conservation areas, of 231 ha inside the locality.

128 of the 148 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 Jedburgh’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1993

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

1993 · 1111971 · 211972 · 13
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 21 entries were listed in 1971, 5 of the 8 Category A buildings among them. 111 came in 1993. 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.

Jedburgh Abbey, 50m ESE of Abbey House
Jedburgh Franciscan Friary
Jedburgh Franciscan FriaryEcclesiastical: claustral remains
Born here

16 notable people born in Jedburgh before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

William Fleming
John Ainslie
John Veitch
John Ferriar
Anthony Anderson
James Bell
Mary Somerville
David Brewster
George Tinline
John Tinline
Joseph Brown
James Andrew Whitelock Mein
David George Ritchie
Ned Haig
Joe Mabon
James Huggan
170017501800185019001950
David Brewster
David Brewster1781–1868 · Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)
Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville1780–1872 · Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
WF
William Fleming1729–1794 · American politician and physician (1729-1795)
NH
Ned Haig1858–1939 · Inventor of rugby sevens (1858–1939)
David George Ritchie
David George Ritchie1853–1903 · British philosopher (1853-1903)
John Ferriar
John Ferriar1761–1815 · British writer and physician
John Veitch
John Veitch1752–1839 · Scottish founder of the Veitch family horticulture business; (1752-18…
JB
James Bell1769–1833 · Scottish geographical author, born 1769

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

Towns its size

Jedburgh has the 4th most Category A buildings of 210 towns its size

Scottish towns of 2,000–10,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
Banff11
Kelso10
Jedburgh8
Rothesay7
Brechin6
South Queensferry6
North Berwick6
Dunblane6
Anstruther5
Kirkcudbright5
Campbeltown5
#8 of 210for listed buildings per resident (358 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.

Only Lanark, Banff and Kelso have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Jedburgh

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Jedburgh4,1311488—
Burnfoot2,79700—
Kelso7,00418510—
Hawick10,7151243—
In brief

Jedburgh in brief

Jedburgh has 148 listed buildings, 8 of them in the top category, including Castlegate, Jedburgh Castle Old Jail with Exercise Yard Walls, Fortifications, Portcullis Gates, Entrance Gates and Outer Embankment Wall. Abbey Place, Newgate with Attached Wall, External Stair and Railings sits at the heart of it all, with 6 of the town’s Category A buildings within 400 m. Only 3 of the 210 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Of the whole list, 71% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 16 people born here before 1900, the best known include David Brewster (1781), Mary Somerville (1780) and William Fleming (1729). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1993: 111 of 148. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 2 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Jedburgh’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Jedburgh?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 148 buildings inside Jedburgh’s locality: 8 Category A, 43 Category B and 97 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Jedburgh?

8, including Abbey Place, Newgate with Attached Wall, External Stair and Railings, Canongate Bridge, Castlegate, Jedburgh Castle Old Jail with Exercise Yard Walls, Fortifications, Portcullis Gates, Entrance Gates and Outer Embankment Wall, Newcastle Road (And Oxnam Road), Old Parish Church with Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, (Church of Scotland), Pleasance, St John's Episcopal Church with Lych Gate and Boundary Wall and Queen Street, Queen Mary's House with Outbuildings, Boundary Wall and Railings.

Which street in Jedburgh has the most listed buildings?

Castlegate (20), High Street (16) and Canongate (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Jedburgh?

Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Jedburgh Abbey, 50m ESE of Abbey House and Jedburgh Franciscan Friary.

How many conservation areas are there in Jedburgh?

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

When were Jedburgh’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 111, in 1993.

Are there old photos of Jedburgh?

Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1793 to 1793, all on this page.

Who was born in Jedburgh?

Among people born before 1900: David Brewster (1781), Mary Somerville (1780), William Fleming (1729), Ned Haig (1858) and David George Ritchie (1853).

Jedburgh 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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