List of Historic Environment Scotland properties

This list includes the historic houses, castles, abbeys, museums and other buildings and monuments in the care of Historic Environment Scotland (HES). HES (Scottish Gaelic: Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba) is a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, responsible for investigating, caring for and promoting Scotland’s historic environment. It maintains over 300 properties, that together attract more than 3 million visitors annually.^[1]

Aberdeen[edit]

Aberdeenshire[edit]

Argyll and Bute[edit]

Ayrshire[edit]

East Ayrshire[edit]

North Ayrshire[edit]

South Ayrshire[edit]

Clackmannanshire[edit]

Dumfries and Galloway[edit]

Dunbartonshire[edit]

East Dunbartonshire[edit]

West Dunbartonshire[edit]

Name	Image	Notes
Dumbarton Castle		Dumbarton was the centre of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde from the 5th century until 1018.

Name	Image	Notes
Broughty Castle		Castle, built hastily, but perhaps unnecessarily. It figured in only two national emergencies over 450 years.
Claypotts Castle		16th-century castle

Edinburgh[edit]

Falkirk (council area)[edit]

Glasgow[edit]

Name	Image	Notes
Crookston Castle		Ruin of an unusual 15th-century castle
Glasgow Cathedral		Cathedral built on the site where St Mungo was thought to have been buried

Highland (council area)[edit]

Inverclyde[edit]

Name	Image	Notes
Newark Castle		Firth of Clyde castle mainly associated with the notorious Patrick Maxwell

Lanarkshire[edit]

North Lanarkshire[edit]

Name	Image	Notes
Antonine Wall: Croy Hill		Part of the Antonine Wall – Rome’s north-west frontier
Antonine Wall: Dullatur		Part of the Antonine Wall – Rome’s north-west frontier
Antonine Wall: Westerwood to Castlecary		Part of the Antonine Wall – Rome’s north-west frontier

South Lanarkshire[edit]

Lothian[edit]

East Lothian[edit]

Midlothian[edit]

West Lothian[edit]

Orkney Islands[edit]

Name	Image	Notes
Barnhouse		Neolithic settlement
Bishop’s Palace, Kirkwall		Palace built for the first bishop of Orkney
Blackhammer Chambered Cairn		Neolithic burial cairn
Broch of Gurness		Iron-Age settlement
Brough of Birsay		Site featuring Pictish and Norse power-base with Pictish well
Cubbie Row’s Castle		One of the earliest stone castles to survive in Scotland
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn		Neolithic chambered tomb
Dounby Click Mill		The last surviving horizontal water mill in Orkney
Dwarfie Stane		Neolithic burial chamber
Earl’s Bu		Remains of a medieval manor house
Earl’s Palace, Birsay		16th-century remains of the residence of Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney
Earl’s Palace, Kirkwall		17th-century palace built by Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney
Eynhallow Church		Ruined 12th-century monastic church
Grain Earth House		Iron Age earth house
Hackness Martello Tower and Battery		Extensive military remains on the island of Hoy
Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn		A massive tomb
Knap of Howar		Probably the oldest standing stone houses in north-west Europe
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn		An oval cairn with concentric walls enclosing a Neolithic chambered tomb
Links of Noltland		Sand dunes seal and protect significant prehistoric remains
Maeshowe Chambered Cairn		The finest chambered tomb in north-west Europe
Midhowe Broch		A well-preserved broch, with remains of later buildings round it.
Midhowe Chambered Cairn		A megalithic chambered tomb of Neolithic date
Noltland Castle		A ruined Z-plan tower, built between 1560 and 1573 but never completed.
Pierowall Church		The ruins of a medieval church, known as Lady Kirk, with some finely lettered tombstones.
Quoyness Chambered Cairn		A megalithic tomb containing a passage and main chamber, with six subsidiary cells.
Rennibister Earth House		An Orkney earth house.
Ring of Brodgar		A circle of upright stones with an enclosing ditch spanned by causeways, dating to late Neolithic period.
Skara Brae		One of the best preserved groups of prehistoric houses in Western Europe, part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site.
St Magnus Church, Egilsay		Ruin of a 12th-century church
St Mary’s Chapel, Wyre		Ruin of a 12th-century chapel and graveyard
St Nicholas’ Church, Orphir		Remains of early 12th-century round church next to Earl’s Bu
Stones of Stenness		The remains of a stone circle surrounded by remains of a circular earthen bank
Taversöe Tuick Chambered Cairn		Neolithic chambered cairn
Tormiston Mill		A late example of a Scottish watermill
Unstan Chambered Cairn		A mound covering a stone burial chamber divided by slabs into five compartments.
Watchstone		Standing stone northwest of the Stones of Stenness
Westside Church, Tuquoy		A small 12th-century nave-and-chancel church.
Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn		A Neolithic chambered cairn with three concentric walls and a burial chamber with three large cells.