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  • The Double Houses, Ness Road

    Place: Stromness

    Three paired cottage blocks turn opposite fronts to the land and sea, retaining flagstone paths, gardens and a quay.

  • The Douglas Hotel, Brodick

    Place: Brodick

    An eighteenth-century residence absorbed into a red-sandstone Victorian hotel records Brodick’s shift toward organised tourism and a new ferry landing.

  • The Ell House

    Place: Dunkeld

    A metal ell measure fixed to an eighteenth-century former hospital recalls the regulation of cloth trading in a town shaped by weaving.

  • The Elms

    Place: Arbroath

    William Leiper’s richly detailed villa survives after hotel, wartime and children’s-home uses, but remains vacant without completed redevelopment.

  • The Engine Shed

    Place: Stirling

    A former military railway shed has become a national laboratory and learning centre where traditional materials are demonstrated alongside digital survey and conservation science.

  • The Epicentre, Former West Church

    Place: Strathaven

    A compact 1835 Gothic church now serves an active independent congregation, preserving the building’s communal purpose under a new name.

  • The Eric Liddell Community

    Place: Edinburgh

    A Romanesque former church now supports people living with dementia, carers and the wider community.

  • The Fullarton

    Place: Castle Douglas

    A former Gothic parish church now supports cinema, theatre and live performance as the volunteer-run Fullarton.

  • The Gables

    Place: St Fergus

    James Henderson gave this compact Free Church manse a strongly marked centre, canted dormers and distinctive sash windows after the Disruption era.

  • The Gaiety Theatre, Ayr

    Place: Ayr

    Ayr’s intimate theatre survives fires, changing entertainment and threatened closure to remain a working home for performance and community participation.

  • The George Hotel, Montrose

    Place: Montrose

    Curving gables and a tall oriel mark this continuing Victorian hotel at the end of a George Street terrace.

  • The Georgian House

    Place: Edinburgh

    Robert Adam’s palace-fronted Charlotte Square contains an individual townhouse restored to reveal the architecture, display and domestic labour of prosperous New Town life. Currently closed for conservation.

  • The Glebe

    Place: St Fergus

    Three joined ranges make the growth of this rural manse unusually easy to read, from an eighteenth-century rear section to William Smith’s formal Victorian front.

  • The Globe Inn

    Place: Dumfries

    Hidden behind a High Street pend, the Globe preserves small panelled rooms associated with Robert Burns while continuing the hospitality use that made the place famous.

  • The Grange

    Place: Port Ellen

    The plain harled former manse of 1847 now continues in hospitality use above the village.

  • The Grange Club Pavilion

    Place: Edinburgh

    Half-timbering, a central tower and spectator terraces built into two levels make this one of Scotland’s most distinctive cricket pavilions.

  • The Grange, Park Road

    Place: Johnstone

    A turret, half-timbered gable and coloured-glass inglenook give this Edwardian villa an intentionally varied silhouette and interior.

  • The Haining

    Place: Selkirk

    A restrained Palladian mansion overlooking its designed landscape has moved from private estate house to community-held cultural venue.

  • The Haining Stables and Coach House

    Place: Selkirk

    Curving and rectilinear stable ranges translate estate service architecture into an unusually expressive courtyard group.

  • The Harbour Inn, Garlieston

    Place: Garlieston

    The Harbour Inn occupies three connected houses in Garlieston’s crescent, preserving the scale and repeated openings of the domestic terrace behind a long-established hospitality use.

  • The Hill House

    The Hill House

    Place: Helensburgh

    An intricately planned family home brings architecture, interiors and furnishings into a single composition.

  • The Hippodrome, Former Fishermen’s Mission

    Place: Eyemouth

    A tall eight-bay granary became the Fishermen’s Mission and then a place for community and marine learning, preserving layers of harbour work.

  • The Hirsel

    Place: Coldstream

    A long-evolving Georgian house anchors the Hirsel Estate, where family residence, agriculture, designed landscape and public walks coexist.

  • The Hirsel Multi-period Settlements and Ecclesiastical Site

    Place: Coldstream

    One protected area preserves traces of domestic life from prehistory alongside a church and cemetery used for roughly eight centuries.