AChurch · listed 1971Midcalder Village Mid Calder Parish Kirk (St. John's Church) Main StreetPhoto: Basilicofresco · CC BY-SA 4.0
Midcalder Village Mid Calder Parish Kirk (St. John's Church) Main Street · Photo: Basilicofresco · CC BY-SA 4.0–Not graded
History of Mid Calder · Historic Environment Scotland
21 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category
Historic Environment Scotland counts them inside Mid Calder’s locality, 65 for every 10,000 residents. Category C covers 11 of Mid Calder’s listed buildings. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings.
Listed buildings
21
65 per 10,000 residents
Category A
3
national importance
Category B
7
regional importance
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
In pictures
Landmarks of Mid Calder
Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Calder HouseCategory A listed
Black Bull Inn 6-4A-4 Market StreetCategory C listed
East Bridge, Linhouse Water, East Calder RoadCategory B listed+1See all photosPhotos 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 Mid Calder’s history is
Every Category A and B building, monument and historic park.
Category ACategory B
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
21 listed buildings by grade
3 Category A7 Category B11 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 Mid Calder
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.
AHouse · listed 1971Calder HousePhoto: Paul Thomson · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1971Gateway, Calder Estate, West Calder Road
Category B
The 7 Category B listed buildings in Mid Calder
Buildings of regional importance. 1 is photographed.
BWalls & gates · listed 1971East Bridge, Linhouse Water, East Calder RoadPhoto: Anne Burgess · CC BY-SA 2.0
Inns & shops · listed 1971Brewery House, 70 Main Street
House · listed 1971Calder Steading
House · listed 1971House, Pumpherston Road
Inns & shops · listed 1971Torphichen Arms Hotel, Bank Street
House · listed 197129 Bank Street
House · listed 197141, 43, 47 Bank Street
What’s protected
Most of Mid Calder’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas13
Inns, shops & warehouses4
Walls, gates & bridges2
Public & civic buildings1
Churches, chapels & priories1
13 entries (62%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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
11 Category C listed buildings
This category covers buildings of local importance. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 11 Category C listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 48% of Mid Calder
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Mid Calder57 ha
57 hain conservation areas, of 119 ha inside the locality.
21 of the 21 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 Mid Calder’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1971
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1971 · 121972 · 8
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 12 entries were listed in 1971, 3 of the 3 Category A buildings among them. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Towns its size
Mid Calder has the 12th most Category A buildings of 178 towns its size
Scottish towns of 1,000–8,000 people, by Category A listed buildings.
Mid Calder3
#53 of 178for listed buildings per resident (65 per 10,000). Kirkcudbright, Banff and Anstruther lead.
11 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Mid Calder
| Town | People | Listed | Category A | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid Calder | 3,217 | 21 | 3 | — |
| East Calder | 7,249 | 5 | 0 | — |
| Livingston | 55,798 | 29 | 0 | — |
| Polbeth | 2,595 | 3 | 0 | — |
| Broxburn | 15,414 | 16 | 1 | — |
| West Calder | 3,405 | 4 | 0 | — |
| Winchburgh | 4,290 | 3 | 0 | — |
| Blackburn | 5,263 | 2 | 0 | — |
In brief
Mid Calder in brief
The official list counts 21 listed buildings in Mid Calder, 3 of them in the top category, including Midcalder Village Mid Calder Parish Kirk (St. John's Church) Main Street. Calder House sits at the heart of it all, with 3 of the town’s Category A buildings within 400 m. Only 11 of the 178 towns nearest its size have more Category A buildings.
A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 62% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1971: 12 of 21.
Questions about Mid Calder’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Mid Calder?
Historic Environment Scotland lists 21 buildings inside Mid Calder’s locality: 3 Category A, 7 Category B and 11 Category C.
What are the Category A listed buildings in Mid Calder?
3, including Calder House, Gateway, Calder Estate, West Calder Road and Midcalder Village Mid Calder Parish Kirk (St. John's Church) Main Street.
How many conservation areas are there in Mid Calder?
1, covering about 57 hectares of the town. The largest is Mid Calder.
When were Mid Calder’s buildings listed?
The first in 1971; the most, 12, in 1971.
Mid Calder 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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