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  • Ben Bhraggie Monument to the First Duke of Sutherland

    Place: Golspie

    A colossal hilltop statue dominates Golspie while embodying a deeply contested memory of the first Duke of Sutherland and the Highland Clearances.

  • Benromach Distillery Malt Barn

    Place: Forres

    A long brick malt barn preserves the industrial scale and repetitive structure of Benromach’s late-nineteenth-century foundation.

  • Bernat Klein Studio

    Place: Selkirk

    Peter Womersley’s Category A-listed 1972 studio for textile designer Bernat Klein, in woodland near Selkirk; now the focus of a heritage-led restoration project.

  • Berwickshire High School

    Place: Duns

    A remarkably long, generously glazed Modern school expresses mid-twentieth-century ideals of light, movement and comprehensive education.

  • Biggar Corn Exchange

    Place: Biggar

    A crowstepped hall and clock tower built for grain trading now sustain community performance, film and music.

  • Biggar Gasworks Museum

    Biggar Gasworks Museum

    Place: Biggar

    Stone retort and exhauster buildings, gasholders and surviving machinery preserve Scotland’s only substantially complete small-town gasworks.

  • Biggar Kirk

    Biggar Kirk

    Place: Biggar

    A rare late-medieval collegiate foundation whose cruciform plan, crossing tower and later fittings remain at the heart of Biggar’s worshipping life.

  • Biggar Kirk Churchyard

    Place: Biggar

    Table stones, upright memorials, obelisks and ironwork create a layered funerary setting around Biggar’s late-medieval kirk.

  • Biggar Mill and Millhouse

    Place: Biggar

    Mill, kiln, barn, house and surviving machinery retain the physical sequence of grain processing beside the burn.

  • Binghill House Stone Circle and Cairn

    Place: Peterculter

    A recumbent stone circle with a ring cairn and a separate burial cairn preserves a rare ceremonial and funerary group above the Dee.

  • Birkfield

    Place: Carluke

    Birkfield preserves a rare Clydesdale survival: an eighteenth-century cottage whose original thatch remains beneath a later protective sheet covering.

  • Birkwood House

    Place: Lesmahagow

    Successive owners transformed a Georgian villa into a sprawling castellated mansion before institutional use and prolonged vacancy changed the estate again.

  • Birsley Brae Medieval Coal Mine

    Place: Tranent

    Subtle earthworks preserve exceptionally early evidence for coal extraction in the landscape that shaped Tranent.

  • Bishop Elphinstone Memorial

    Bishop Elphinstone Memorial

    Place: Aberdeen

    A bronze recumbent founder and subsidiary figures commemorate Bishop William Elphinstone at the heart of Old Aberdeen.

  • Bishop’s Palace

    Bishop’s Palace

    Place: Kirkwall

    Kirkwall’s oldest surviving domestic building preserves the long hall of a medieval bishop’s residence and a six-storey tower added during sixteenth-century reconstruction.

  • Bishop’s Palace at Eden Court

    Place: Inverness

    The Gothic residence of Bishop Robert Eden survives at the centre of the Highlands’ principal theatre and arts complex.

  • Bishopbriggs Library

    Bishopbriggs Library

    Place: Bishopbriggs

    An 1896 Gothic school now serves as Bishopbriggs Library, its clock tower still marking the town’s main civic street.

  • Bishopton Aqueduct

    Place: Bishopton

    A short cast-iron trough carries culverted water over the railway, preserving a compact piece of early Victorian engineering.

  • Bishopton Parish Church

    Bishopton Parish Church

    Place: Bishopton

    David Hamilton’s battlemented country church remains Bishopton’s principal Church of Scotland sanctuary after more than two centuries.

  • Black Bull Hotel

    Place: Moffat

    An irregular inn front and long rear wing preserve a hospitality site associated with Moffat for several centuries.

  • Black Bull Hotel

    Place: Lauder

    A long coaching-inn front, Gothick Palladian window and surviving stable ranges record Lauder’s place on an important road route.

  • Black Bull Inn

    Place: Darvel

    A simple harled inn with a dated chimney gable preserves an early social landmark beside Hastings Square.

  • Black Castle

    Place: South Queensferry

    Inscribed dormers identify a seventeenth-century household, while later witchcraft, smuggling and tunnel stories reveal how one house accumulated local legend.

  • Black Hill Fort

    Place: Earlston

    Successive ramparts and at least twenty house platforms reveal repeated reshaping of an Iron Age hilltop community.