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V&A Dundee
Place: Dundee
A sculptural museum on the River Tay whose curving concrete walls and projecting stone panels were designed to reconnect Dundee with its waterfront.
Vale of Leven Cemetery
Place: Alexandria
An 1881 garden cemetery combines designed ground, ironwork, memorials and long views with a continuing burial function.
Verdant Works
Place: Dundee
Verdant Works preserves an unusually complete Dundee mill complex, using its phased stone ranges, iron-framed interiors, working machinery and workers’ stories to explain the city’s flax and jute economy.
Verron Broch and Cultivation Rigs
Place: Skara Brae
A broch mound, possible settlement platform and rare surviving cultivation rigs combine Iron Age settlement with much later farming beside an eroding shore.
Victoria Bridge, Aberlour
Place: Aberlour
A light river crossing whose cables and latticework make its structure easy to read.
Victoria Dock and Swing Bridges
Place: Dundee
Victoria Dock is a 10.7-acre nineteenth-century wet dock whose phased ashlar walls, fixed-open swing bridges and dock furniture preserve the scale and engineering history of Dundee Harbour within today’s mixed-use City Quay.
Victoria Hall, Auchtermuchty
Place: Auchtermuchty
A decorative public frontage marks a building associated with communal activity and performance.
Victoria Halls, Helensburgh
Place: Helensburgh
A richly modelled public frontage announces a group of halls serving different kinds of gathering.
Victoria Hospital Phase II Block
Place: Kirkcaldy
A high-rise “matchbox on a muffin” block remains the skyline marker of Fife’s principal hospital even after its wards moved to newer accommodation.
Victoria Hotel, Kirkcaldy
Place: Kirkcaldy
A substantial villa built for a furniture-manufacturing family now retains an active hotel use and unusually rich interiors.
Victoria Park Fountain, Aberdeen
Place: Aberdeen
Fourteen local granites turn a public fountain into a compact display of Aberdeen’s stone-working skill.
Victoria Swing Bridge, Leith
Place: Edinburgh
Scotland’s largest counterweighted swing bridge marks the point where the Water of Leith reaches the historic docks.
Victorian Market
Place: Inverness
A network of covered passages and small shops that keeps a 19th-century market form active within Inverness city centre.
Viewfield and Kirklee, 61 and 63 Main Street, Auchencairn
Place: Auchencairn
Viewfield and Kirklee form a paired granite frontage whose porches, sash windows and boundary walls help hold the western end of Main Street together.
Viewfield House and Nairn Museum
Place: Nairn
A compact classical house now gives Nairn’s local collections a domestic setting within the green space of Viewfield.
Viewpark Gardens Gateway, Tower and Hot Wall
Place: Uddingston
An ornate gateway joins a bellcote, chimney, tower, forestair and internally heated fruit wall in an unusual surviving piece of Victorian garden engineering.
Virginia Court and Marischal Court
Place: Aberdeen
Two dramatically unequal concrete slabs rise above the harbour edge as a major surviving work of post-war municipal housing.
Wallace Bandstand
Place: Nairn
An elaborate cast-iron pavilion gives Nairn’s coastal Links a rare surviving focus for outdoor music and civic gathering.
Wallace Monument and Ornamental Urn, Dryburgh
Place: Dryburgh
A giant stone William Wallace and accompanying urn project national commemoration across the high ground above Dryburgh.
Wallace Monument, Elderslie
Place: Elderslie
A crowned Gothic shaft gives monumental form to Elderslie’s enduring association with William Wallace.
Wallace Tower, Ayr
Place: Ayr
A castellated clock tower commemorating William Wallace rises directly from Ayr High Street above shops and active council services.
Wallhouse
Place: Torphichen
An early nineteenth-century mansion was expanded into a crenellated, towered composition that anchors the estate landscape included within Torphichen’s conservation area.
Wallhouse Dovecot
Place: Torphichen
A roofless octagonal tower preserves the form of an estate dovecot whose birds supplied food and manure while signalling landowner privilege.
Wanlock House
Place: Wanlockhead
A substantial early house records several generations of enlargement while retaining its painted rubble core and formal frontage.