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  • The Bass and Little Bass

    Place: Inverurie

    Two exceptional earthen mounds preserve the form of a twelfth-century timber castle beside the rivers Don and Urie.

  • The Birds, Glenrothes

    Place: Glenrothes

    A flock appears to burst upward from a rocky base, giving a moment of movement to the civic landscape outside the county offices.

  • The Black Bull Hotel

    Place: Milngavie

    The whitewashed early nineteenth-century Black Bull preserves a small inn frontage within Milngavie’s changed centre.

  • The Briggait

    Place: Glasgow

    Glasgow’s former fish market has become an arts community without losing the great cast-iron hall and exuberant Clyde-side façade of its commercial past.

  • The Broadway Cinema

    Place: Prestwick

    Curved shopfront wings, a recessed entrance and surviving Art Deco interiors preserve Prestwick’s interwar picture palace amid an active community revival.

  • The Bulwark

    Place: Scalloway

    A compact eighteenth-century fishing booth survives close to the water, preserving the modest commercial buildings that once structured Scalloway’s shore.

  • The Burrell Collection

    Place: Glasgow

    A low sandstone-and-glass museum threads art, reconstructed rooms and woodland together in one of Scotland’s most significant post-war cultural buildings.

  • The Caledonian Edinburgh

    The Caledonian Edinburgh

    Place: Edinburgh

    A red-sandstone railway hotel preserves the monumental entrance screen of the vanished Princes Street Station at the west end of the city centre.

  • The Cambridge Bar

    Place: Edinburgh

    A restrained early New Town house now contains a long-established independent pub behind its four-bay ashlar front.

  • The Captain’s Cabin

    Place: Ullapool

    A tall former warehouse with an external stair connects the planned fishing settlement’s commercial origins with present-day retail use.

  • The Carshed Shop

    Place: East Wemyss

    A modest shop with a tiled porch preserves the memory of the electric tramway whose locally nicknamed cars linked East Wemyss to Leven and Kirkcaldy.

  • The CatStrand

    Place: New Galloway

    A former granite school rescued from dereliction now anchors cultural life in the Glenkens through performance, exhibitions, learning and hospitality.

  • The Causeways, Culross

    Place: Culross

    Cobbles, setts and drainage channels make the ground itself part of the burgh’s architecture.

  • The Centre, Livingston — former Almondvale Shopping Centre

    Place: Livingston

    Successive generations of covered shopping give Livingston a modern commercial centre south of the Almond.

  • The Clansman Centre

    Place: Fort Augustus

    John Rhind’s richly detailed former Board School now houses a shop and visitor presentation about Highland life and material culture.

  • The Clydeside Distillery

    The Clydeside Distillery

    Place: Glasgow

    The hydraulic heart of Queen’s Dock now houses a working whisky distillery and visitor centre beside the Clyde.

  • The Corinthian Club

    Place: Glasgow

    Successive banking and court campaigns created one of Glasgow’s richest commercial interiors, now used for hospitality and events.

  • The Cornerstone

    Place: Bishopton

    The former Rossland Church now serves Bishopton Parish Church as The Cornerstone, joining a simple 1843 sanctuary with active community use.

  • The Cross Keys

    Place: Ancrum

    This red-sandstone inn preserves a carriage entrance, brewery-era frontage and unusually complete fittings from its 1906 refurbishment.

  • The Crow Tavern

    Place: Bishopbriggs

    An early nineteenth-century roadside inn remains in hospitality use behind a frontage altered by curved twentieth-century wings.

  • The Crown Inn

    Place: Biggar

    A low harled frontage preserves the scale of an older High Street inn while continuing its hospitality use.

  • The Dean Tavern

    Place: Newtongrange

    A community-owned Gothenburg tavern has returned trading profits to Newtongrange for more than a century.

  • The Devil’s Porridge Museum

    Place: Eastriggs

    A community museum interprets the people, processes and planned settlements of HM Factory Gretna in a purpose-built home beside Annan Road.

  • The Dome, former Commercial Bank

    Place: Edinburgh

    David Rhind’s former Commercial Bank gives George Street a monumental Corinthian temple front and a spectacular domed banking hall, now experienced through The Dome’s public hospitality use.