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History of Peebles · Historic Environment Scotland

152 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category

On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Peebles’s locality, 167 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 3 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 34 of its listed buildings.

3Category A61Category B3scheduled monuments16on High Street
Listed buildings
152
167 per 10,000 residents
Category A
3
national importance
Category B
61
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
3
nationally important sites
In pictures

Peebles in 35 photos

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High Street, Chambers InstitutionHigh Street, Chambers InstitutionCategory A listedCrosskirk, church and friary, PeeblesCrosskirk, church and friary, PeeblesScheduled monumentEastgate and Venlaw Road, Green Tree InnEastgate and Venlaw Road, Green Tree InnCategory C listedOld Town, Former Hay Lodge Stables, With Boundary WallOld Town, Former Hay Lodge Stables, With Boundary WallCategory C listedInnerleithen Road, Manse with Boundary Walls and GatepiersInnerleithen Road, Manse with Boundary Walls and GatepiersCategory B listed+30See 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 Peebles’s history is

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

Crosskirk, church and friary, Peebles, scheduled monumentPeebles,St Andrew's Church, scheduled monumentPeebles,town wall, scheduled monumentBonnington Road, Arnsheen, With Garage, Sundial, Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Wall, Category BBonnington Road, Reiverslaw with Lodge, Gatepiers, Gates, Garage, Greenhouse and Boundary Walls, Category BCastle Venlaw Hotel and Terrace, Category BChambers Terrace, Dalhousia, Category BCraigerne House and Craigerne Lodge, Edderstone Road, Peebles, Category BEastgate, Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre, Former Free Church, Category BEastgate, St Peter's Episcopal Church, Category BEdderston Road, Greybield, Category BEdderston Road, Tantah, Category BHigh Street, Chambers Institution, War Memorial, Category BHigh Street, County Hotel, Category BHigh Street, Mercat Cross, Category BHigh Street, Old Parish Church, Category BHigh Street, Telephone Kiosk Outside County Hotel, Category BHigh Street, Tontine Hotel, Category BInnerleithen Road, Glentrees, With Boundary Walls, Category BInnerleithen Road, Kerfield Cottage, Stable, Coach House, Barns and Associated Buildings, With Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BInnerleithen Road, Kerfield West Lodge, Category BInnerleithen Road, Kerfield, With Bridge, Category BInnerleithen Road, Manse with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BInnerleithen Road, Peebles Hotel Hydro Lodge, Category BInnerleithen Road, Peebles Hotel Hydro, With Terracing, Category BInnerleithen Road, The White Stone and Wall, Category BKingsmeadows Road, Kingsmeadows House Including Terrace, Wall, Gazebo, Gate, Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, Category BKingsmeadows Road, St. Peter's Old Rectory with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BKingsmuir Drive, Kingswood with Greenhouse, Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category BNorthgate, Cross Keys Inn, 13 and 26 Northgate (The Couchee Righ), Category BOld Town, Bridge House, At Cuddy Bridge, Category BOld Town, Hay Lodge, With Boundary Walls, Category BOld Town, Remains of St Andrews Church, Category BPriorsford Bridge, Over River Tweed, Category BRosetta Road, Kingsland Primary School, With Janitor's House, Boundary Walls, Shelters, Gatepiers and Railings, Category BRosetta Road, St Joseph Rc Church and Presbytery, With Boundary Walls, Gate and Gatepiers (Presbytery Is 17 Rosetta Road), Category BRosetta Road, Tweeddale District Council Offices, With Gatepiers, Boundary Walls and Lamp Standards, Category BSpringwood Road and Springwood Terrace, Springwood Lodge with Boundary Walls, Category BThe Court House, including former jail and boundary wall to rear, High Street, Peebles, Category BTweed Green and School Brae, Grammar School with Gate, Category BTweed Green, Leckie Memorial Church (Formerly the East U.P. Church) Including Hall, Boundary Walls, Railings, Gatepiers and Gates, Category BVenlaw High Road, Hyndlea and Rathacraig, With Boundary Walls and Railings, Category BVenlaw High Road, Redbraes with Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, Category BVenlaw Road and Edinburgh Road, Holland and Sherry Warehouse and Offices with Boundary Walls, Category BWest Port, Police Station, Category BWest Port, The Bridge Inn (And Nanking Chinese Restaurant), Category B1 and 3 Old Town, Category B10 Crossland Crescent with Boundary Walls, Category B17 March Street, Rosebery Cottage, With Front Wall, Category B18 and 20 High Street, The Medical Hall, Category B2-6 (Even Nos) High Street and 1 and 3 Northgate, Category B26 and 28 High Street, Category B27, 27A and 29 High Street, Category B3 Damdale with Boundary Wall and Gate, Category B32 and 34 Northgate with Boundary Walls and Gatepiers, Category B36 Biggiesknowe, Red Lion House, With Boundary Wall, Category B37 High Street, Category B5 and 7 Northgate, Category B5-11 (Odd Nos) High Street (Incorporating the Keg Lounge Bar), Category B50 and 52 High Street, Category B63-73 (Odd Nos) High Street, Category B75 and 77 High Street, Category B85 Northgate, Category B88 and 90 High Street, Category BHigh Street, Chambers Institution, Category AHigh Street, Town House, Category ATweed Bridge, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monument

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152 listed buildings by grade
3 Category A61 Category B88 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 3 Category A listed buildings in Peebles

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.

Walls & gates · listed 1971Tweed BridgePhoto: Harry Bond · CC BY-SA 4.0
Category B

The 61 Category B listed buildings in Peebles

Buildings of regional importance. 29 are photographed.

Show the other 49
Historic streets

High 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.

High Street16 listed · 6 II*
26 and 28 High Street50 and 52 High Street
With Boundary Walls5 listed
Northgate4 listed · 2 II*
5 and 7 Northgate
Old Town4 listed · 1 II*
St Andrews Place3 listed
With Boundary Wall3 listed · 1 II*

Of the 152 entries, 62 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Peebles’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas84
Walls, gates & bridges47
Public & civic buildings8
Inns, shops & warehouses7
Churches, chapels & priories3
Memorials, crosses & tombs3

84 entries (55%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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

88 Category C listed buildings

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

All 88 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Bonnington Road, Craigmount, With Gatepiers and Boundary WallsBonnington Road, Kingsmuir Hall, Middle House, And CottageBonnington Road, Kingsmuir Lodge with Quadrant WallsBonnington Road, Kingswood Lodge with Boundary WallsCaledonian Road, Bridgelands and Rowanbank with Boundary Wall and GatepiersDamdale, FootbridgeEast Station Car Park, Former Goods OfficeEastgate and Venlaw Road, Green Tree InnEdderston Road, Tantah Lodge and Boundary WallEdinburgh Road, North Lodge, (Venlaw Castle Hotel) with Gatepiers and Boundary WallsEdinburgh Road, Venlaw South Lodge with Boundary Walls and GatepiersFirknoweFrankscroft, BorrowleaFrankscroft, MaryfieldFrankscroft, RavenscraigHigh Street, Veitch MemorialInnerleithen Road, Kerfield East LodgeInnerleithen Road, Kerfield Kitchen Garden WallsInnerleithen Road, Park HotelInnerleithen Road, Venbrae and Ravensmeade, With Boundary WallsInnerleithen Road, Whiteknowe with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and GatesInnerleithen Road, Whitestone House with Boundary WallsKingsmeadows Road, Woodbine CottageOld Town, Former Hay Lodge Stables, With Boundary WallOld Town, Hay Lodge Park Gatepiers, Gates, Boundary Walls and Ice HouseOld Town, St Andrew's Cemetery with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers, Gates and RailingsRosetta Road, St Joseph's Rc Church Hall and 19 and 21 Rosetta Road, With Boundary WallsRosetta, Lodge and GatepiersSpringhill Road, Barima with Boundary WallsSpringhill Road, Elderscroft with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and RailingsSpringhill Road, Victoria Park Gates and RailingsSpringwood Drive, Springwood HouseSt Andrews Road, Cemetery Lodge with Boundary Wall and GatesTalisman Place, Kingsmeadows Road, 1-7 (Inclusive) Kingsmeadows StablesTalisman Place, White CottageTweed Avenue, Priorsford House and Lodge with Boundary Walls and GatepiersTweed Green and School Brae, Former English School with Gate and Boundary WallTweed Green, Cabbage Hall, With Boundary WallTweedgreen, Old Rectory and Tweedbrae, East Rectory1 Bridgegate1 Rosetta Road, Viewfield, With Boundary Walls1 St Andrews Place1 and 2 Venlaw Road1-5 (Inclusive Nos) Biggiesknowe, And 1-6 (Inclusive Nos) Bridge House Terrace with Forestairs and Balcony10 Springhill Road, Cruachan11 Murray Place, Fairholm, With Boundary Walls11AND 15 Northgate12 Springhill Road, Haystoun Cottage13 Crossland Crescent, Craiglee, With Boundary Walls14 Biggiesknowe16 Elcho Street, Graham Cottage, With Front Wall, Railings and Gatepiers18 Biggiesknowe with Boundary Wall and Railings19 and 21 March Street, Marion Cottage and Alexander Cottage2 Bonnington Road, Kingsville2 St Andrews Road, Glenharvey Cottage, With Boundary Wall22 and 24 High Street3 St Andrews Place3-9 (Odd Nos) Eastgate36-40 (Even Nos) Dean Park, Edinburgh Road4 Murray Place, Allanbank Villa, With Boundary Walls and Railings4 Springhill Road, Falcony Cottage4, 4A and 6 Bonnington Road with Boundary Wall40 Rosetta Road, Ratho Cottage, With Boundary Wall41 and 43 High Street43, 45 and 47 Northgate45 and 47 March Street, Gregory Place, With Boundary Walls46 and 48 High Street49 High Street49 March Street, Sunbury Villa with Front Walls and Railings5 Damdale with Front Wall and Gate5 St Andrews Place51 Old Town53 Old Town54 High Street, Crown Hotel56 and 58 High Street6 Springhill Road, Willowbank60 High Street63-67 (Odd Nos) High Street64 High Street7 Crossland Crescent, Edrom Villa, With Boundary Walls70, 72 and 74 High Street8 Cross Road with Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates8 Springhill Road, Rydale8, 8A and 9 Kingsmeadows Road, St Margaret's and Fernside, With Boundary Walls and Railings80 and 82 High Street84 Old Town84 and 86 High Street9 Northgate, Masonic Lodge
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 33% of Peebles

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

Peebles 1970132 ha
132 hain conservation areas, of 396 ha inside the locality.

128 of the 152 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 Peebles’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1995

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

1995 · 1121971 · 26
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 26 entries were listed in 1971, 3 of the 3 Category A buildings among them. 112 came in 1995. 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.

3 scheduled monuments

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

Crosskirk, church and friary, Peebles
Peebles,St Andrew's Church
Peebles,St Andrew's ChurchEcclesiastical: church
Peebles,town wallSecular: town wall
Born here

18 notable people born in Peebles before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry
William Chambers
Robert Chambers
William Keddie
John Veitch
Thomas Ballantyne
Robert Borthwick Adam
James N. Adam
Edith W Woodhouse
Charles Todd
Frank Fasson
Alec Ormiston
Arthur Brown Ritchie
William Graham
James Reid
Dan Broadhead
Seaman Nobby Hall
170017501800185019001950
Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers1802–1871 · Scottish publisher and writer (1802–1871)
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry1724–1810 · Scottish duke (1724-1810)
William Chambers
William Chambers1800–1883 · Scottish publisher and politician (1800-1883)
William Graham
William Graham1887–1932 · Scottish Labour Party politician (1887-1932)
John Veitch
John Veitch1829–1894 · Scottish poet, philosopher, and historian (1829–1894)
JR
James Reid1890–1938 · Scottish footballer, born 1890
James N. Adam
James N. Adam1842–1912 · American politician (1842–1912)
Charles Todd
Charles Todd1868–1942 · New Zealand businessman (1868–1942)

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

Towns its size

Peebles has the 32nd most Category A buildings of 195 towns its size

Scottish towns of 4,000–23,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
St Andrews20
Helensburgh13
Montrose11
Banff11
Musselburgh11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Linlithgow9
Dalkeith8
Jedburgh8
Peebles3
#20 of 195for listed buildings per resident (167 per 10,000). Banff, Anstruther and Rothesay lead.

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Peebles

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Peebles9,1171523—
Innerleithen3,152260—
In brief

Peebles in brief

Peebles has 152 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category, including Tweed Bridge. Its Category A buildings cluster together: 3 of them stand within 400 m of High Street, Chambers Institution. Only 31 of the 195 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. On High Street alone there are 16 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Most entries on the list, 55%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 18 people born here before 1900, the best known include Robert Chambers (1802), William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry (1724) and William Chambers (1800). Beyond that, it also has 3 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Peebles’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Peebles?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 152 buildings inside Peebles’s locality: 3 Category A, 61 Category B and 88 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Peebles?

3, including High Street, Chambers Institution, High Street, Town House and Tweed Bridge.

Which street in Peebles has the most listed buildings?

High Street (16), With Boundary Walls (5) and Northgate (4) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Peebles?

Yes, 3 scheduled monuments, including Crosskirk, church and friary, Peebles, Peebles,St Andrew's Church and Peebles,town wall.

How many conservation areas are there in Peebles?

1, covering about 132 hectares of the town. The largest is Peebles.

When were Peebles’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 112, in 1995.

Who was born in Peebles?

Among people born before 1900: Robert Chambers (1802), William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry (1724), William Chambers (1800), William Graham (1887) and John Veitch (1829).

Peebles 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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