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Wanlockhead Beam Engine
Place: Wanlockhead
A long timber beam on a stone pier is the only known water-bucket pump surviving in its working position in the United Kingdom.
Wanlockhead Community Centre and Former School
Place: Wanlockhead
A gabled school and house with a small belfry now provide Wanlockhead’s principal community meeting space.
Wanlockhead Lead-Mining and Smelting Landscape
Place: Wanlockhead
Shafts, adits, smelters, watercourses and tramways form a connected industrial landscape rather than a collection of isolated relics.
Wanlockhead Miners’ Library
Place: Wanlockhead
A small whitewashed library preserves the books and self-education tradition of Wanlockhead’s mining community.
Wardlaw Museum
Place: St Andrews
A sea-facing university museum enlarged and redisplayed to connect art, history, science and natural-history collections with the town and wider public.
Warehouse Buildings, 8 Victoria Street
Place: Stromness
A remarkably broad seventeenth-century warehouse now forms the historic core of Stromness’s multi-service community hub.
Warrender Swim Centre
Place: Edinburgh
An intricate pink-sandstone Jacobean baths continues its original public-health purpose after major refurbishment.
Warriston Cemetery
Place: Edinburgh
A large garden cemetery descends through terraces and winding paths to the Water of Leith, enclosing monuments, catacombs and designed structures.
Waterloo Arms Hotel
Place: Chirnside
The whitewashed Waterloo Arms occupies a prominent corner and continues the hospitality role of an early nineteenth-century coaching inn.
Waterside Engine House
Place: Dalmellington
The monumental 1847 engine house gave the new ironworks an unexpectedly formal Italianate face, then doubled in scale as production expanded in 1865.
Waterside Hut Circles
Place: Aboyne
Two broad turf-covered rings preserve rare lowland evidence for neighbouring prehistoric houses close to the River Dee.
Watt Institution
Place: Greenock
An exceptionally early library-and-museum complex built in several phases, combining public learning, local collections and a commemoration of James Watt that now requires fuller historical context.
Waulkmill Bridge
Place: Peterculter
A compact hump-backed rubble bridge records the practical eighteenth-century improvement of routes across Culter Burn.
Waverley Mills
Place: Langholm
Langholm’s great surviving woollen mill records industrial growth in a tall iron-framed block, but now awaits a viable new use.
Waverleygate
Place: Edinburgh
The monumental former General Post Office fronts a modern office interior while retaining one of Edinburgh’s most powerful city-centre façades.
Waygateshaw
Place: Carluke
A mid-sixteenth-century tower remains legible inside later estate enlargement, accompanied by a courtyard gateway and sculptured sundial.
Waygateshaw Dovecot
Place: Carluke
A compact rectangular dovecot preserves the agricultural and status function of managed pigeon keeping within the Waygateshaw estate landscape.
Weavers’ cottages, 23–25 Wellwynd
Place: Airdrie
Small pantiled cottages preserve evidence of domestic textile production.
Webster Memorial Theatre
Place: Arbroath
Arbroath’s nineteenth-century public hall continues as a busy theatre whose High Street front anchors a much altered performance complex.
Websters Theatre, former Lansdowne Parish Church
Place: Glasgow
John Honeyman’s soaring 1863 Lansdowne Church now combines comedy, hospitality and events with a developing museum of Alf Webster’s stained glass; the former Websters Theatre name is historical.
Wedderburn Castle
Place: Duns
An Adam-designed country house turns classical symmetry into a castellated composition that now supports private events and group stays.
Weem Old Parish Kirk
Place: Aberfeldy
A small old kirk preserves Gothic openings, armorial sculpture and an exceptional Menzies monument after its conversion from parish worship to mausoleum.
Well Court
Place: Edinburgh
Red roofs, crowstepped gables and a clock tower gather around a riverside courtyard originally built as improved housing for Dean Village workers.