AWalls & gates · listed 1971Bothwell, Main Street, St Bride's Collegiate Church, (Church of Scotland), Including Graveyard, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and GatesPhoto: Iain Thompson · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Otter · CC BY-SA 3.0–Not graded
History of Bothwell · Historic Environment Scotland
37 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category
On the Historic Environment Scotland list, all of them stand inside Bothwell’s locality, 53 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
Listed buildings
37
53 per 10,000 residents
Category A
3
national importance
Category B
15
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
In pictures
Landmarks of Bothwell
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Bothwell, Main Street, St Bride's Collegiate Church, (Church of Scotland), Including Graveyard, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and GatesCategory A listed
BOTHWELL CASTLEScheduled monument
Bothwell, Bothwell Parish Church, Joanna Baillie MonumentCategory A listedPhotos 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 Bothwell’s history is
Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.
Category ACategory BScheduled monument
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
37 listed buildings by grade
3 Category A15 Category B19 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 Bothwell
Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. 2 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
AChurch · listed 1971Bothwell, Bothwell Parish Church, Joanna Baillie MonumentPhoto: Jim Smillie · CC BY-SA 2.0
Category B
The 15 Category B listed buildings in Bothwell
Buildings of regional importance.
Inns & shops · listed 1998Bothwell 73-77 Main Street (Odd Nos), Clydesdale Bank
Public · listed 1971Bothwell Castle Park, The Poultry
Inns & shops · listed 1977Bothwell, 1-8 (Inclusive Nos) Blantyre Mill Road, Elmwood Mansion
House · listed 1979Bothwell, 20 and 22 Green Street, Greenbank
Walls & gates · listed 1998Bothwell, 29 Hamilton Road/ 1 Old Mill Road, Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls
Walls & gates · listed 1998Bothwell, 4 and 4A Mill Road, Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls
Church · listed 1998Bothwell, 46 Main Street, St Bride's Church Lodge
Walls & gates · listed 1998Bothwell, 7 Fairyknowe Gardens, Mansfield, Including Gatepiers, Boundary Walls and Outbuilding
House · listed 1979Bothwell, Green Street, Sweethope House
Show the other 3
House · listed 1974Bothwell, The Glebe, Sweethope Farm, Formerly Back Sweethope
Walls & gates · listed 1971Uddingston, Bothwell Road, Bothwell Castle Gatehouse Including Screen Walls, Quadrant Walls and Piers
What’s protected
Most of Bothwell’s listed buildings are walls, gates and bridges
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Walls, gates & bridges23
Houses, terraces & villas6
Inns, shops & warehouses4
Public & civic buildings2
Churches, chapels & priories2
6 entries (16%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 3 Category A buildings.
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
19 Category C listed buildings
This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 19 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Bothwell, 1-3 Main Street (Odd Nos), Camphill Vaults Public HouseBothwell, 11 Silverwells Crescent, Hollybank, Including Boundary Walls and GatepiersBothwell, 13A and 13B Blantyre Mill Road Including Gatepiers and Boundary WallsBothwell, 15-17 (Odd Nos) Langside Road, Including Boundary Wall and GatepiersBothwell, 18-20 (Even Nos), Silverwells Crescent, Haxton House, Including Boundary WallsBothwell, 2 Main Street, Library, Formerly the Donald Institute, Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers, Gates and RailingsBothwell, 2 Mill Road, Including Gatepiers and Boundary WallsBothwell, 26 Silverwells Crescent, Including Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary WallsBothwell, 27 Hamilton Road, The Cricklewood, Public House, Including Boundary WallsBothwell, 28 Silverwells Crescent, Douglas Lodge, Including Boundary Walls and GatepiersBothwell, 3 Orchard Avenue, Anchorage House, Including GatepiersBothwell, 3 and 3A Silverwells Crescent, Including Gatepiers and Boundary WallsBothwell, 4 Hamilton Road, Including Boundary WallsBothwell, 6 Manse AvenueBothwell, 6 Orchard Avenue, (Formerly 8 Hamilton Road), Including Gatepiers and Boundary WallsBothwell, 8-10 (Even Nos), Main Street, Including Gatepiers and Boundary WallsBothwell, Blantyre Mill Road, Elmwood LodgeBothwell, Main Street, Russell Memorial Hall, Including Gatepiers, Boundary Walls and RailingsSt Bride's Roman Catholic Church and integrated Presbytery and Garage, excluding Monastery and Church Hall, Fallside Road, Bothwell
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 9.4% of Bothwell
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Bothwell 197037 ha
37 hain conservation areas, of 389 ha inside the locality.
25 of the 37 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 Bothwell’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1998
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1998 · 20
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The first 4 entries were listed in 1971, 2 of the 3 Category A buildings among them. 20 came in 1998. Only 1 has 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.
BOTHWELL CASTLESecular: castle
1 Inventory battlefield
Born here
11 notable people born in Bothwell before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Joanna Baillie
John Bain
Marion Gilchrist
George Neilson
John Rogerson
Gordon Neilson
Robert Neilson
James Patrick
David King Murray
John Steel Ralston
Andy Straden
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Joanna Baillie1762–1851 · Scottish poet and dramatist (1762-1851)
AS
Andy Straden1897–1967 · American soccer player (1897-1967)
JB
John Bain1854–1929 · British footballer (1854-1929)
Marion Gilchrist1864–1952 · Scottish doctor and suffragette
Gordon Neilson1876–1927 · Scottish rugby union player (1876–1927)
DM
David King Murray1884–1955 · Scottish politician and Law Lord (1884-1955)
GN
George Neilson1872–1944 · Scottish rugby football player
JR
John Rogerson1874– · Scottish rugby union player
Everyone born in Bothwell → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Bothwell has the 31st most Category A buildings of 234 towns its size
Scottish towns of 3,000–18,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.
Bothwell3
#78 of 234for listed buildings per resident (53 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.
30 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bothwell
| Town | People | Listed | Category A | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bothwell | 7,002 | 37 | 3 | — |
| Uddingston | 6,181 | 18 | 1 | — |
| Blantyre | 16,534 | 12 | 1 | — |
| Viewpark | 15,832 | 2 | 0 | — |
| Bellshill | 19,488 | 3 | 0 | — |
| Hamilton | 55,171 | 151 | 13 | — |
| Cambuslang | 33,250 | 15 | 0 | — |
| Motherwell | 33,021 | 29 | 1 | — |
In brief
Bothwell in brief
Bothwell has 37 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category, including Bothwell, Main Street, St Bride's Collegiate Church, (Church of Scotland), Including Graveyard, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates. Only 30 of the 234 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Of the whole list, 62% are walls, gates and bridges.
Of the 11 people born here before 1900, the best known include Joanna Baillie (1762), Andy Straden (1897) and John Bain (1854). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1998: 20 of 37. The rest is about typical: it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Bothwell’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bothwell?
Historic Environment Scotland lists 37 buildings inside Bothwell’s locality: 3 Category A, 15 Category B and 19 Category C.
What are the Category A listed buildings in Bothwell?
3, including Bothwell, Bothwell Parish Church, Joanna Baillie Monument, Bothwell, Laighlands Road, Criagievar and Gleneden Including Entrance Lampstands and Bothwell, Main Street, St Bride's Collegiate Church, (Church of Scotland), Including Graveyard, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates.
Are there scheduled monuments in Bothwell?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including BOTHWELL CASTLE.
How many conservation areas are there in Bothwell?
1, covering about 37 hectares of the town. The largest is Bothwell.
When were Bothwell’s buildings listed?
The first in 1971; the most, 20, in 1998.
Who was born in Bothwell?
Among people born before 1900: Joanna Baillie (1762), Andy Straden (1897), John Bain (1854), Marion Gilchrist (1864) and Gordon Neilson (1876).
Bothwell 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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