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History of Dunblane · Historic Environment Scotland

82 listed buildings, 6 of them in the top category

Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Dunblane’s locality, 93 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 24 of its listed buildings and 2 old views of the town.

6Category A27Category B2scheduled monuments5on High Street
Listed buildings
82
93 per 10,000 residents
Category A
6
national importance
Category B
27
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
2
2 gardens & designed landscapes
In pictures

Dunblane in 27 photos and old views

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Cathedral Square, Dunblane Cathedral (Cathedral Church of St Blaan and St Laurence including churchyard, boundary wall and Riccarton's stile) excluding scheduled monument SM90109, DunblaneCathedral Square, Dunblane Cathedral (Cathedral Church of St Blaan and St Laurence including churchyard, boundary wall and Riccarton's stile) excluding scheduled monument SM90109, DunblaneCategory A listedStation Road, Dunblane Railway Station Including Original FootbridgeStation Road, Dunblane Railway Station Including Original FootbridgeCategory C listedStirling Road, Formerly the Railway HotelStirling Road, Formerly the Railway HotelCategory C listedAllan Water, Dunblane Railway ViaductAllan Water, Dunblane Railway ViaductCategory B listedGlen Road, Doocot Cottage, DovecotGlen Road, Doocot Cottage, DovecotCategory B listed+22See 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

Dunblane from 1890 to 1890

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

Dunblane Cathedral from N. (i.e., North), Scotlandc. 1890
VictorianDunblane Cathedral from N. (i.e., North), ScotlandPhoto: Photochrom Print Collection · Public domain
Dunblane Hydropathic Hotel, Dunblane, Scotlandc. 1890
VictorianDunblane Hydropathic Hotel, Dunblane, ScotlandPhoto: Photochrom Print Collection · 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 Dunblane’s history is

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

Keir, garden or designed landscapeKippenross, garden or designed landscapeDunblane Cathedral and precinct, buried remains, scheduled monumentDunblane, Bishop's Palace, scheduled monumentAllan Water, Dunblane Railway Viaduct, Category BChurch of the Holy Family (Roman Catholic Church) and Boundary Wall, Excluding Presbytery and Church Hall, Clarendon Place, Dunblane, Category BClaredon Place, Fernbank Including Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, Category BGlen Road, Doocot Cottage, Dovecot, Category BHigh Street, Balhaldie House Including Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, Category BHigh Street, St Blane's Church (Church of Scotland), Category BHigh Street,St Blane's House, Including Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, Category BKirk Street, Cockburn House, Category BKirk Street, Scottish Churches House, Entrance House, Category BKirk Street, Scottish Churches House, North Terrace, Category BKirk Street, Vaulted Chamber, Category BNewton Crescent, Provan Including Boundary Wall, Category BPerth Road, Anchorfield Including Boundary Wall, Category BPerth Road, Dunblane Hyrdo Hotel Including Hydro Lodge, Newton Cottage, Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, Category BPerth Road, St Mary's Episcopal Church Including Gatepiers and Boundary Wall, Category BSpringbank Gardens, 1-12 (Inclusive), 14-30 (Inclusive) Springbank Mill Including Former School House, Category BStirling Road, Stirling Arms Including Boundary Wall, Category BThe Crescent, Glenacres Including Summer House, Category BThe Crescent, Glenluss Including Boundary Wall and Gatepiers, Category BThe Cross, Cathedral Cottage and St Clements, Category BThe Cross, Dunblane Cathedral Halls, Category B1 Sinclair Street, Category B2 Bridgend and 9 Stirling Road, Category B61 High Street Including Gatepiers, Category B63 High Street, Bank House and Bank, Including Boundary Wall, Category B7 Stirling Road, Category B91-95 (Odd Nos) High Street, Category BAult Wharrie and part of Stewart House, and including summer house, former gate lodge, outbuilding to northeast, walled garden, terraced garden wall, boundary wall and gatepiers and excluding the early 21st century addition at the northeast (part of Stew, Category ACathedral Square, Dunblane Cathedral (Cathedral Church of St Blaan and St Laurence including churchyard, boundary wall and Riccarton's stile) excluding scheduled monument SM90109, Dunblane, Category AMemorial Chapel, Dunblane, Category AQueen Victoria School, Dunblane, Category AThe Cross, Cathedral Museum, Including Residential Properties to South Adjoining Burgh Chambers and Well to Rear, Category AThe Cross, Leighton Library, Category A
Category ACategory BScheduled monumentPark or garden

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82 listed buildings by grade
6 Category A27 Category B49 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 6 Category A listed buildings in Dunblane

Buildings of national or international importance, about 7.5% of all listed buildings. 4 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Category B

The 27 Category B listed buildings in Dunblane

Buildings of regional importance. 18 are photographed.

Show the other 15
What’s protected

Most of Dunblane’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas41
Walls, gates & bridges26
Public & civic buildings6
Memorials, crosses & tombs5
Churches, chapels & priories2
Inns, shops & warehouses2

41 entries (50%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 6 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

49 Category C listed buildings

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

All 49 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Braeport, AuroraBraeport, Braeport Community Centre Including Boundary WallBraeport, GighaDoune Road, 1 and 2 Calderwood PlaceDoune Road, Albert CottageGlen Road, TomdoranHaining, Leighton House, (Front Elevation Only)Headmaster's House, DunblaneHigh Street, Dunblane Public LibraryInfirmary, DunblaneKirk Street and Sinclair Street, Scottish Churches House, South TerraceMill Row, Allan CottageMill Row, Allanside Including Boundary WallOld Bleaching Green, MonumentPerth Road, Burlington House Including Gatepiers and Boundary WallPerth Road, Crawford House Including Coach HousePerth Road, Kincairn, Cairndow and Rosebank Including Boundary WallPerth Road, Ledcameroch Including Stables, Stable Yard Wall and Walled GardenPerth Road, St Mary's Cottage Including Boundary WallQueen Victoria School, Dunblane, Wall and GatesRamoyle, Ramoyle HouseSmithy Loan, Holmehill Lodge East, Including Gatepiers and Boundary WallSmithy Loan, Woodend Including Boundary WallStation Road, Dunblane Railway Station Including Original FootbridgeStirling Road, Bridge of DunblaneStirling Road, Formerly the Railway HotelThe Crescent, Elmswood Including Stables and Boundary WallThe Cross, Cross Cottage Including Boundary WallThe Cross, Municipal BuildingsThe Cross, The Manse Coach House, Gatepiers and Boundary WallThe Haugh, War Memorial108 and 112 High Street114 High Street124 and 126 High Street, Former Dunblane Free Church16-18 (Even Nos) High Street2 Sinclair Street2-14 (Even Nos) High Street22 and 24 High Street27 and 29 High Street Including Vaulted Basement3 Sinclair Street30-34 (Even Nos) High Street4 Sinclair Street49 High Street Including Boundary Wall5 Sinclair Street50-56 (Even Nos) High Street53 High Street57 and 59 High Street58-62 (Even Nos)86-88 (Even Nos) High Street
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 20% of Dunblane

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

Dunblane 197081 ha
81 hain conservation areas, of 404 ha inside the locality.

71 of the 82 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

33 of Dunblane’s 82 listed buildings were added in 1976

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

1976 · 331971 · 212002 · 18
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 3 entries were listed in 1957. 33 came in 1976, 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.

2 scheduled monuments

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

Dunblane Cathedral and precinct, buried remains
Dunblane Cathedral and precinct, buried remainsEcclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard
Dunblane, Bishop's Palace
Dunblane, Bishop's PalaceEcclesiastical: precincts; Secular: house

2 gardens and designed landscapes

KeirGarden and designed landscape
KippenrossGarden and designed landscape

1 Inventory battlefield

Born here

13 notable people born in Dunblane before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

James Towers
James Gillespie Graham
Henry Burden
Patrick James Stirling
Ebenezer Bryce
Thomas Henderson Whitehead
Robert Christie
George King
Alex Christie
John Bayne
William Eadie
Johnny McGuire
James Huffam
175017751800182518501875190019251950
Ebenezer Bryce
Ebenezer Bryce1830–1913 · American Mormon pioneer and architect (1830–1913)
JG
James Gillespie Graham1776–1855 · Scottish architect
JM
Johnny McGuire1893–1962 · American soccer player (1893-1962)
PS
Patrick James Stirling1809–1891 · Scottish lawyer
RC
Robert Christie1865–1918 · British curler and association football player (1865-1918)
AC
Alex Christie1873–1954 · British association football player (1873-?)
Henry Burden
Henry Burden1791–1871 · American industrialist
JB
John Bayne1877–1915 · Association football player (1877-)

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

Towns its size

Dunblane has the 14th most Category A buildings of 197 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
Dunblane6
#45 of 197for listed buildings per resident (93 per 10,000). Banff, Anstruther and Rothesay lead.

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Dunblane

TownPeopleListedCategory AHistory
Dunblane8,797826—
Bridge of Allan4,7441230—
Menstrie2,83431—
Stirling38,59046024—
Tullibody8,51541—
Alva4,82091—
Fallin2,76920—
Bannockburn6,587130—
In brief

Dunblane in brief

Dunblane has 82 listed buildings, 6 of them in the top category. Only 13 of the 197 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Of the whole list, 50% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 13 people born here before 1900, the best known include Ebenezer Bryce (1830), James Gillespie Graham (1776) and Johnny McGuire (1893). The rest is about typical: it also has 2 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Dunblane’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Dunblane?

Historic Environment Scotland lists 82 buildings inside Dunblane’s locality: 6 Category A, 27 Category B and 49 Category C.

What are the Category A listed buildings in Dunblane?

6, including Ault Wharrie and part of Stewart House, and including summer house, former gate lodge, outbuilding to northeast, walled garden, terraced garden wall, boundary wall and gatepiers and excluding the early 21st century addition at the northeast (part of Stew, Cathedral Square, Dunblane Cathedral (Cathedral Church of St Blaan and St Laurence including churchyard, boundary wall and Riccarton's stile) excluding scheduled monument SM90109, Dunblane, Memorial Chapel, Dunblane, Queen Victoria School, Dunblane, The Cross, Cathedral Museum, Including Residential Properties to South Adjoining Burgh Chambers and Well to Rear and The Cross, Leighton Library.

Are there scheduled monuments in Dunblane?

Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Dunblane Cathedral and precinct, buried remains and Dunblane, Bishop's Palace.

How many conservation areas are there in Dunblane?

1, covering about 81 hectares of the town. The largest is Dunblane.

When were Dunblane’s buildings listed?

The first in 1957; the most, 33, in 1976.

Are there old photos of Dunblane?

Yes: 2 public-domain photos and postcards from 1890 to 1890, all on this page.

Who was born in Dunblane?

Among people born before 1900: Ebenezer Bryce (1830), James Gillespie Graham (1776), Johnny McGuire (1893), Patrick James Stirling (1809) and Robert Christie (1865).

Dunblane 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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