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Aros Building and Cottage
Place: Lochgilphead
David Crow’s symmetrical U-plan poorhouse survives externally with a separate courtyard cottage, despite later fire damage and office conversion.
Arran Library and Brodick Hall
Place: Brodick
An 1895 hall created by a local improvement trust combines a dramatic canted stair tower, broad meeting room and later public-library use.
Arthur’s Cross
Place: Neilston
Dense panels of interlace survive on a truncated sandstone cross-shaft that has served, at different times, as monument, stream crossing and gate pier.
Arthur’s O’on (Arthur’s Oven)
Place: Larbert
A remarkably complete domed Roman monument stood above the River Carron until its demolition in 1743; antiquarian drawings preserve the appearance of one of Scotland’s most grievous architectural losses.
Arthurlie House
Place: Barrhead
A former mansion with a coupled-Doric doorway and Dunlop arms now anchors community activity in Arthurlie Park.
Ashley Bank
Place: Kirkcowan
Ashley Bank is a compact early-nineteenth-century cottage whose steep graded roof, large skewputts and long rear wing preserve the scale of Kirkcowan’s older Main Street housing.
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
Place: Edinburgh
A landmark Georgian venue on George Street, where Edinburgh’s formal assemblies, balls, concerts and festivals have unfolded for more than two centuries.
Atholl Hotel
Place: Aberdeen
A substantial granite villa now sustains an independent hotel and hospitality use on King’s Gate.
Atholl Memorial Fountain
Place: Dunkeld
A compact Gothic spire and ring of granite columns commemorate the 6th Duke of Atholl at the centre of Dunkeld’s planned townscape.
Auchencairn Church
Place: Auchencairn
Auchencairn Church is a compact neo-Gothic building whose lancets, traceried gables and small bellcote establish a clear ecclesiastical landmark.
Auchenheath House
Place: Kirkmuirhill
Auchenheath House grew from a modest early nineteenth-century core into an eclectic Italianate villa whose elaborate interiors and estate features reflect coalfield wealth.
Auchindoun Castle
Place: Dufftown
Auchindoun reuses a prehistoric defended hill for a sophisticated late medieval tower house, making two very different periods of high-status power visible in one remote site.
Auchter House
Place: Newmains
Crowsteps, carved crests and a tall three-light window give this 1886 villa an unusually assertive Scottish Renaissance character.
Auchterderran Parish Church
Place: Cardenden
A cruciform parish church gathers medieval stonework, nineteenth-century galleries and stained glass into a continuing place of worship.
Auchterderran War Memorial
Place: Cardenden
Red sandstone sculpture and a tall cross give the district’s First and Second World War remembrance a commanding position at the road junction.
Auchtermuchty Burn Bridges and Parapets
Place: Auchtermuchty
The burn’s masonry edges and crossings form a connected part of the townscape.
Auchtermuchty Parish Church
Place: Auchtermuchty
An expanding church building records changing congregational needs and worship arrangements.
Auchtermuchty Town House
Place: Auchtermuchty
A small civic tower preserves the burgh’s architectural centre while the building serves readers today.
Auld Brig of Ayr
Place: Ayr
Ayr’s late-medieval Auld Brig survives as a four-arched pedestrian crossing, a Burns landmark and the focus of an important early conservation campaign.
Auld Kirk Museum
Place: Kirkintilloch
Kirkintilloch’s 1644 parish church now houses a museum, preserving a crowstepped post-Reformation kirk while interpreting the town around it.
Auld Kirk of Ayr Gateway
Place: Ayr
Dated 1656, the Auld Kirk’s roofed sandstone gateway preserves the architecture and ritual memory of entry from Kirk Port to church and graveyard.