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History of Lanark · Historic Environment Scotland

175 listed buildings, 25 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Lanark’s locality, 196 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 3 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 35 of its listed buildings and 2 old views of the town.

25Category A62Category B1925old map3scheduled monuments15on High Street
Listed buildings
175
196 per 10,000 residents
Category A
25
national importance
Category B
62
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
3
1 garden or designed landscape
In pictures

Lanark in 40 photos and old views

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

New Lanark, Community Hall (Former New Lanark Church) with Gatepiers, Railings and Boundary WallsNew Lanark, Community Hall (Former New Lanark Church) with Gatepiers, Railings and Boundary WallsCategory A listedNew Lanark, Education Centre (Formerly the School)New Lanark, Education Centre (Formerly the School)Category A listedNew Lanark, Mill Number FourNew Lanark, Mill Number FourScheduled monumentLanark Grammar School, Hyndford RoadLanark Grammar School, Hyndford RoadCategory B listedClydesdale Hotel 13 & 15 BloomgateClydesdale Hotel 13 & 15 BloomgateCategory B listed+35See 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

Lanark from 1900 to 1925

An old map and 2 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

View up Bannatyne Street, Lanark, looking to St Leonard's Churchc. 1900
VictorianView up Bannatyne Street, Lanark, looking to St Leonard's ChurchPhoto: Unknown photographer · Public domain
Image of Lanark Railway Station & St Leonard's Church c1920c. 1920
Between the warsImage of Lanark Railway Station & St Leonard's Church c1920Photo: A. Brown & Company, Lanark. c1920 · Public domain
Ordnance Survey One-Inch Sheet 79 Lanark, Published 1925c. 1925
Old mapOrdnance Survey One-Inch Sheet 79 Lanark, Published 1925Map: Director General of the Ordnance Survey, UK · 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 Lanark’s history is

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

The Falls of Clyde, garden or designed landscapeCastle Hill,site of Lanark Castle, scheduled monumentNew Lanark, Mill Number Four, scheduled monumentSt Kentigern's Church, Lanark, scheduled monumentBroomgate House, 42 and 44 Broomgate, Category BCairns Church of Scotland Bloomgate, Category BCastle Park 80 Broomgate, Category BCastlebank House, Including Stable Court Range, Category BCastlepark Lodge Broomgate, Category BChurchyard and burial aisles at St Kentigern’s Church, excluding scheduled monument SM1144, Lanark, Category BClydesdale Hotel 13 & 15 Bloomgate, Category BCrosslaw House, Home Street, Category BFormer Lodge to Wheatpark, 52 Wheatpark Road, Category BGatepiers, 52 Wheatpark Road, Category BGreenside, Cleghorn Road, Lanark, Category BHope Street Christ Church Episcopal Church, Category BHope Street Former County Police Station, Category BHope Street St Kentigern's Church (Church of Scotland), Category BHyndford House 5 Hyndford Place, Category BHyndford Road Auction Room Cattle Market, Category BLanark Grammar School, Hyndford Road, Category BLanark Memorial Hall, St Leonard Street, Category BLanark Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court, including boundary wall, gatepiers and railings, and excluding 2-storey, flat-roofed extension to east, Hope Street, Lanark, Category BLindsay Institute, Hope Street, Category BMansefield House, West Port, Category BNew Lanark, New Lanark Road, K6 Telephone Kiosk, Category BRailway Station, Bannatyne Street, Lanark, Including Platform Shelter, Category BSmyllum Park, Whitelees Road, Category BSt Nicholas Parish Church High Street, Category BWampherflatt Braxfield Road, Category BWheatpark Cottage, 5 Wheatpark Road, Category BWheatpark, Wheatpark Road, Category BYMCA Bloomgate, Category B1 New Lanark Road, Category B1 Wellgate, Category B101 Castlegate, Category B11 Hope Street, Category B12-22 (Even Nos) Lockhart Drive, Former William Smellie Memorial Hospital, Category B14 and 16 High Street, Category B2 New Lanark Road, Category B2 Park Place, Category B2 West Port, Category B2-8 High Street, Category B20 Hope Street, Category B25 Hope Street, Category B28 and 30 Broomgate, Category B3 and 5 Wellgate, Category B30 and 32 Bloomgate, Category B32 Broomgate, Category B34 Broomgate, Lanark, Category B34 and 36 Wellgate, Category B35 Hope Street, Lanark, Including Outbuilding and Boundary Walls, Category B36 Broomgate, Lanark, Category B38 Castlegate, Category B39 Wellgate, Category B4 and 6 Bloomgate, Category B44 and 46 Bloomgate, Category B44-48(Even Numbers Only) Wellgate, Category B5 and 7 Hyndford Road, Category B50 Wellgate, Category B52 Bloomgate, Category B54 Bloomgate, Category B57 High Street, Category B8 and 10 Bloomgate, Category B86 Mousebank Road, Ridge Park Home Including Walled Garden and Conservatory, Category B9, 11 and 13 West Port, Category BCemetery Chapel, Hyndford Road, Category AHyndford Road, Gates, Gatepiers and Railings at Auction Room and Cattle Market, Category ANew Lanark 1-10 (Inclusive Nos) Braxfield Row, Category ANew Lanark, 1 and 3 Rosedale Street, Robert Owen's House, Category ANew Lanark, 1-11 (Inclusive Nos) Nursery Buildings, Category ANew Lanark, 1-14 (Inclusive Nos) Long Row, Category ANew Lanark, 1-8 (Inclusive Nos) Caithness Row and the Counting House, Category ANew Lanark, 5 and 7 Rosedale Street, David Dale's House, Category ANew Lanark, 9-16 (Inclusive Nos) Caithness Row with Garages (Former Abattoir), Category ANew Lanark, Community Hall (Former New Lanark Church) with Gatepiers, Railings and Boundary Walls, Category ANew Lanark, Education Centre (Formerly the School), Category ANew Lanark, Former Mechanics' Workshop, Category ANew Lanark, Mill No 1, Category ANew Lanark, Mill No 2, Category ANew Lanark, Mill No 3, Category ANew Lanark, New Buildings, Category ANew Lanark, Retort House Chimney, Category ANew Lanark, Rosedale Street, 1- 4 (Inclusive Nos) Double Row, Also Known As Wee Row, Category ANew Lanark, Rosedale Street, 5-12 (Inclusive Nos) Double Row, Known As Water Row, Category ANew Lanark, Scottish Wildlife Trust Visitor Centre (Former Foundry, Later Dyeworks), Category ANew Lanark, Visitor Centre (Formerly New Institution for the Formation of Character and Engine House), Category ANew Lanark, Water Houses, Category ASt Mary's Church Hall, St Vincent Place, Category ASt Mary's Presbytery St Vincent Place, Category ASt Mary's Rc Church, St Vincent Place, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monumentPark or garden400 m from New Lanark, 1 and 3 Rosedale Street, Robert Owen's House
20 of 25Category A buildings stand within 400 m of New Lanark, 1 and 3 Rosedale Street, Robert Owen's House, a five-minute walk. So do 22 of the 175 listed buildings.

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

175 listed buildings by grade
25 Category A62 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 25 Category A listed buildings in Lanark

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings; 20 of these stand within 400 m of New Lanark, 1 and 3 Rosedale Street, Robert Owen's House. 22 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category B

The 62 Category B listed buildings in Lanark

Buildings of regional importance. 13 are photographed.

Show the other 50
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 Street15 listed · 3 II*
2-8 High Street
Wellgate13 listed · 5 II*
Bloomgate11 listed · 6 II*
Castlegate11 listed · 2 II*
West Port9 listed · 2 II*
Broomgate5 listed · 2 II*
Hope Street5 listed · 3 II*
Lanark4 listed · 2 II*
North Vennel3 listed

Of the 175 entries, 100 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Lanark’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas138
Public & civic buildings11
Inns, shops & warehouses10
Churches, chapels & priories8
Walls, gates & bridges7
Street furniture1

138 entries (79%) are houses, terraces and villas. 8 are churches, chapels and priories, including 2 of the 25 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

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
Bank of Scotland 21 BloomgateBankhead Farm, Including Farmhouse, Steading and Boundary WallsCastlebank House, Garden TerracesCastlebar 32 & 34 CastlegateCastlegate, Lodge to Castlebank Park Including Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and GatesCrown Tavern 17 Hope StreetEu Church West PortGates to St Mary's Precinct, St Vincent PlaceHope Bank 18 Hope StreetHyndford Road, Former Lady Hozier Convalescent Home and Boundary WallsMousebank Road, Ridge Park Lodge and GatepiersMuirglen, Hyndford RoadRoyal Bank of Scotland 88 High StreetRyber Lodge, Cleghorn RoadSisters of Charity Convent, St Vincent PlaceThe Caledonian Hotel Banatyne StreetThe Portvaults Public House 116 High StreetThe Royal Oak Tree Bannatyne Street1 High Street1 and 3 Hyndford Place1, 3 and 5 Bloomgate10 Wellgate11 North Vennel12 and 14 Wellgate, Maize's Bar12, 14, 16 Bloomgate13 & 15 Castlegate13 Friars Lane, Friarsview, Including Boundary Walls13 Hope Street Mervyn13, 15 and 17 Wellgate Head15 and 17 High Street Wrights16 and 18 Wellgate18 and 20 Bloomgate18 and 20 High Street19 and 21 Bannatyne Street19, 21 and 23 High Street2 and 4 Wellgate, Clydesdale Bank20 West Port20-26 (Even Numbers Only) Wellgate21 Hope Street, Lanark, Including Boundary Walls and Railings22 West Port24 and 26 West Port25, 27, 29 High Street28 Wellgate Head28 West Port28 and 30 Wellgate3 High Street, The Cross Cafe31 High Street32 Wellgate34 and 36 Bloomgate, Lanark35 High Street35 and 37 West Port36 Castlegate37 and 39 High Street38 and 40 Broomgate, Lanark38 and 40 Wellgate39 West Port4, 6, 8 and 10 Hope Street.4-16 (Even Nos Only) Broomgate41 High Street41, 43 and 45 Wellgate42 Bloomgate42 Wellgate43 and 45 High Street D W Brown and Son46A, 48 and 48A Bannatyne Street, Lanark Bingo, Former Regal Cinema and Shops47 and 49 High Street48 Bloomgate5 & 7 Castlegate5 Broomgate5 Hope Street51 High Street53 and 55 Castlegate54 Castlegate56 and 58 Castlegate57 and 57A Castlegate6 Market End61 High Street68 and 72 Castlegate7 Bloomgate and 2 Broomgate7 Broomgate7 Hope Street7 North Vennel7 Wellgate7 West Port7, 9 and 13 High Street7-13 Hyndford Place (Odd Numbers Only)9 & 11 Castlegate9 Broomgate9 North Vennel
Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 12% of Lanark

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

New Lanark30 ha
Lanark 197029 ha
59 hain conservation areas, of 489 ha inside the locality.

149 of the 175 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 Lanark’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1980

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

1980 · 1301971 · 28
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 28 entries were listed in 1971, 16 of the 25 Category A buildings among them. 130 came in 1980, 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.

World Heritage

New LanarkUNESCO World Heritage Site: the town touches its mapped area, which can include a buffer zone

3 scheduled monuments

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

New Lanark, Mill Number Four
New Lanark, Mill Number FourIndustrial: textiles
St Kentigern's Church, Lanark
St Kentigern's Church, LanarkEcclesiastical: church

1 garden or designed landscape

The Falls of Clyde
The Falls of ClydeGarden and designed landscape
Born here

14 notable people born in Lanark before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Bessie Clarksone
Robert McQueen
William Newbigging
Margaret Agnes Bunn
William Budge
Annie S. Macdonald
John Glaister
Hughie Phillips
James Hay
Kenneth Buchanan
Lewis McDonald
John Barr
Walter Elliot
William Bryce
155016001650170017501800185019001950
Walter Elliot
Walter Elliot1888–1958 · Scottish Unionist Party politician (1888-1958)
Margaret Agnes Bunn
Margaret Agnes Bunn1799–1883 · British actress
William Budge
William Budge1828–1919 · American politician (1828-1919)
JG
John Glaister1856–1932 · Scottish forensic scientist (1856-1932)
Robert McQueen
Robert McQueen1722–1799 · Scottish advocate and judge
William Newbigging
William Newbigging1773–1852 · (1773-1852)
HP
Hughie Phillips1864– · Scottish footballer
JH
James Hay1876–1940 · Scottish footballer (1876-1940)

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

Towns its size

Lanark has the most Category A buildings of 195 towns its size

Scottish towns of 4,000–22,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.

Lanark25
St Andrews20
Helensburgh13
Montrose11
Banff11
Musselburgh11
Kelso10
Haddington9
Linlithgow9
Dalkeith8
Jedburgh8
Rothesay7
#17 of 195for listed buildings per resident (196 per 10,000). Banff, Anstruther and Rothesay lead.

The typical town its size has 1.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Lanark

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Lanark8,93717525—
Carluke14,12041—
Lesmahagow4,25980—
Kirkmuirhill and Blackwood4,35110—
Law3,29300—
Stonehouse5,59140—
Larkhall15,319150—
Newmains5,36470—
In brief

Lanark in brief

Lanark has 175 listed buildings, 25 of them in the top category, including St Mary's Rc Church, St Vincent Place. No town its size has more Category A buildings: it leads the 195 nearest in population. High Street alone has 15 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970.

Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 14 people born here before 1900, the best known include Walter Elliot (1888), Margaret Agnes Bunn (1799) and William Budge (1828). The big year was 1980, when 130 of the 175 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 3 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Lanark’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Lanark?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 175 buildings inside Lanark’s locality: 25 Category A, 62 Category B and 88 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Lanark?

25, including Cemetery Chapel, Hyndford Road, Hyndford Road, Gates, Gatepiers and Railings at Auction Room and Cattle Market, New Lanark 1-10 (Inclusive Nos) Braxfield Row, New Lanark, 1 and 3 Rosedale Street, Robert Owen's House, New Lanark, 1-11 (Inclusive Nos) Nursery Buildings and New Lanark, 1-14 (Inclusive Nos) Long Row.

Which street in Lanark has the most listed buildings?

High Street (15), Wellgate (13) and Bloomgate (11) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Lanark?

Yes, 3 scheduled monuments, including Castle Hill,site of Lanark Castle, New Lanark, Mill Number Four and St Kentigern's Church, Lanark.

Is Lanark a World Heritage Site?

Part of Lanark lies within the area Historic Environment Scotland maps for New Lanark, which can include a buffer zone around the site itself.

How many conservation areas are there in Lanark?

2, covering about 59 hectares of the town. The largest are New Lanark and Lanark.

When were Lanark’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 130, in 1980.

Are there old photos of Lanark?

Yes: 2 public-domain photos and postcards from 1900 to 1920, and an old map from 1925, all on this page.

Who was born in Lanark?

Among people born before 1900: Walter Elliot (1888), Margaret Agnes Bunn (1799), William Budge (1828), John Glaister (1856) and Robert McQueen (1722).

Lanark 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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