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The Old Academy, Annan
Place: Annan
A broad five-bay townhouse recalls Annan’s first burgh academy and the schooldays of Edward Irving and Thomas Carlyle.
The Old Bakery, Chirnside
Place: Chirnside
A house, bakery range and coach house preserve another part of the prosperous Kirkgate concern that combined brewing, malting and bread production.
The Old Brewery
Place: Cromarty
A compact industrial building from Cromarty’s expansion now houses creative activity and accommodation rather than brewing.
The Old Kirk of Edinburgh, Pennywell Road
Place: Pilton
A distinctive swept porch, grouped windows and flexible hall-church plan mark the Old Kirk as an ambitious post-war response to Pilton’s expanding population.
The Old Manse and Walled Garden
Place: Gordon
A restrained classical manse retains earlier masonry, formal rooms and paths that once led directly across the glebe to the parish church.
The Old Manse, Chirnside
Place: Chirnside
A substantial classical manse replaced or absorbed an eighteenth-century predecessor and still explains the close architectural relationship between Kirkgate and the parish church.
The Old Stables, East Laroch
Place: Ballachulish
A humble agricultural range became a place of Episcopalian worship, leaving a bellcote above masonry that still reveals its earlier single-storey form.
The Old Steeple, Dundee
Place: Dundee
Dundee’s 156-foot Old Steeple is a late-medieval burgh landmark whose Low Countries-influenced tracery, bells and civic presence survived the destruction and rebuilding of the churches around it.
The Orkney Museum
Place: Kirkwall
The Orkney Museum occupies Tankerness House, a layered courtyard complex of former cathedral residences and Baikie family rooms rescued and adapted for public use in 1968.
The Pencil, Largs Battle Monument
Place: Largs
A twentieth-century tower uses an older architectural language to commemorate the battle of 1263.
The Portcullis, Stirling
Place: Stirling
A late eighteenth-century former grammar school now welcomes hotel and restaurant visitors on the steep approach to Stirling Castle.
The Queen’s Hall
Place: Edinburgh
A severe Greek Revival church front and delicate steeple now announce one of Edinburgh’s best-known small concert halls.
The Ram, Kemnay House Policies
Place: Kemnay
The Ram is not an animal sculpture but a tiny crowstepped pumping house that gave an estate water supply architectural dignity.
The Rocket House
Place: Kingston on Spey
Worn Board of Trade lettering identifies this small 1878 shore building as the store for rocket-powered lifesaving apparatus.
The Roman Bridge, Orbiston
Place: New Stevenston
A single ruined arch crosses the South Calder within the fragmented landscape of the former Orbiston estate.
The Round House
Place: Dalbeattie
A boldly curved and crenellated granite front gives unusual architectural drama to a small building now shared by retail and residential uses.
The Roundel
Place: St Andrews
An early town house with a memorable circular corner projection now provides a dedicated research setting for postgraduate Divinity students.
The Royal High Primary School
Place: Edinburgh
A formal inter-war school centred on a Doric entrance and clock tower remains in primary educational use.
The Royal Scots Club
Place: Edinburgh
Three refined New Town houses now form a regimental club whose hospitality use preserves public access to part of the terrace.
The Rutland Hotel
Place: Edinburgh
A curved classical corner at the west end of Princes Street now forms an active hotel and hospitality complex.
The Scotsman Hotel
Place: Edinburgh
The former headquarters of The Scotsman newspaper now operates as a hotel within a dramatic bridge-side urban block.