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Leith Town Hall and Sheriff Court are situated within Leith Police station. Built in 1828 to a design by R. and R. Dicksons, the building contains the…
The Leith Theatre complex was a gift to the people following the decision to incorporate the Burgh of Leith into Edinburgh.The building has seen bomb…
Built in 1868 as a church for Norwegian seamen visiting Leith and still occasionally used by the Norwegian community in Edinburgh. Leith School of Art…
Leith Police Station is the old Leith Town Hall, built 1827-28 by R & R Dickson as the Leith Sheriff Court. From the Queen Charlotte Street entrance,…
First planted with the help of hundreds of local children in 2010, the Leith Links Children’s Orchard incorporates 90 apple, pear, plum and…
The Leith Links allotments will be open for the first time as part of Doors Open Day, in conjunction with the Greener Leith Children’s orchard.…
Leith Hall was built as a Scottish Tower House. It has been added to by successive generations of the Leith-Hay family with the last additions being…
French Gothic meets Victorian Glasgow. Fine Art gallery in William Leiper's A-listed red sandstone tower with sculpture by William Birnie Rhind. Home…
Come and visit Scotland’s oldest purpose-built private library, prominently located within the centre of the historic Cathedral City of Dunblane and…
Lecropt Parish Church dates from the early 1800s and the large pinnacle tower of this Category A Listed Building is now just visible from the M9 above…
Completed in 2004 at a cost of £1.2m and designed by TCD Architects, Aberdeen, this impressive building combines all of the facilities which used to…
A large gabled villa, a showpiece in its heyday, with walled garden, exotic plants and private electricity supply. Extensive glazed outbuildings and a…
Founded in 1741 Leadhills Miners Library is the world's oldest working-class subscription library. Containing 3,000 of some of the rarest books in…
Run entirely by volunteers in the historic village of Leadhills, the railway incorporates period diesel locomotives and 0.75 mile of narrow gauge…
Leacach An Tigh Chloiche, North UistUnival, a small, roughly-built, square passage grave lies on an elevated plateau on the hill of the same name, and, as Beveridge noted, carries the…
Unival, a small, roughly-built, square passage grave lies on an elevated plateau on the hill of the same name, and, as Beveridge noted, carries the…
Law’s Close, known locally as “The Merchants House” is a Category ‘A’ listed building and one of the best preserved 16th century town houses in…
With the first yeast pitched in November, 2014, Lawman Brewing Company is one of the smallest breweries in the UK. The original brewkit could produce…
The tower house built in the 1590s for Sir Archibald Napier, whose son John is best known for his exploration of logarithms. The house was extended in…
Laudate House has accommodated the German speaking congregation in Edinburgh since 1967 when it was built by the architect Reiach & Hall to…
Congregation dates from the Disruption of 1843. Building reconstructed late 19C in French Romanesque style by Archibald J Grahame, his only monument,…
Red sandstone church by Henry Steele and Andrew Balfour, 1892.Three-stage tower with spire and clock. Interesting carved octagonal pulpit and notable…
Within Auld Kirkyard, off Main Street, near Museum.1636 Renaissance-style canopied tomb within mausoleum to Montgomerie family. Splendid painted…
Private museum containing instruments, uniforms and memorabilia relating to the aircraft reporting duties in WW2 and the potential nuclear missile…
Opened in 1910 and still largely in original condition with many original features and furniture.
Largs Museum Trust presents a fine collection of domestic artefacts, seaside souvenirs, and photographs of old Largs and Australian connections; and…
Impressive Early English Gothic in red sandstone. Rich interior with hammer beam roof, Willis organ, and outstanding stained glass by Stephen Adam,…
Access all areas! Backstage tours on the hour to show you behind the scenes and reveal technical aspects of the stage. Hear about stars who have…
Boathouse built 1998 to house Atlantic 75 lifeboat Peggy Keith Learmond. Largs was the first station in Scotland to operate a B class Atlantic 21…
The current building of Largo Parish Church dates from 1620 with a number of alterations over the years. Major restoration in 2015-17 involved…
Two Gothic gables present to the main road, the larger to the main church and the smaller to the original church (1898, now the church hall).
Built alongside the Dobbie Hall in 1904 and designed by the same architects, A & W Black, the former library building reflects the hall’s rich…
Adjacent to the parish church is a burial ground whose magnificent monuments neatly illustrate the advent of the Industrial Revolution in Scotland.…
In the 17th century Larbert Church was caught up in national politics. King James VI exiled Reverend Robert Bruce of Kinnaird to his home parish.…
This B-Listed Gothic-style church, prominent at this road junction includes a square and finialled tower and belfry on the roadside corner to a…
A striking little modern church with an unusual drum feature on the street frontage. It replaces the original early 20C building.
This multi-purpose church building dates from 1995, extended in 2011. Here you can see a spectacular 12 foot oil-on-canvas portrayal of The Last…
Originally the National Bank of Scotland in Queen Street, Langside Halls was dismantled and moved brick by brick to its present location in 1902-03.…
Visit the Georgian-survival gothic Langholm Parish Church, designed by William Burn and David Bryce in 1842-6. The exterior of the church is…
Barpa Langass is the largest and best preserved of the Neolithic chambered burial cairns on North Uist. According to Erskine Beveridge its massive…
LangassBarpa Langass is the largest and best preserved of the Neolithic chambered burial cairns on North Uist. According to Erskine Beveridge its massive…
The Lanarkshire Family History Society centre has Microfilm Viewers, PC with internet access, a large selection of Lanarkshire/Glasgow Maps from 1856,…
Lanarkshire Muslim Welfare Society was established through the efforts of five local businessmen in 1980. In 1997 the Society located a site and…
Lanark Museum houses a collection of items which illustrate the ancient and varied history of the town.Includes and exhibition based on a "Timeline of…
A rare chance to visit an operational fire station. Lanark Fire Station is the Area Headquarters for South Lanarkshire. Please note that this is an…
Boathouse built 1985 to house the B class Atlantic 75 lifeboat covering inshore waters around the coast of Arran. Larger boathouse built 1997 near the…
Lambhill Stables is a vibrant community facility in the north of Glasgow. Our two-hundred year old 'B' listed building and extensive gardens provide a…
Lamb�s House was built in 1610 by Andro Lamb, merchant. It was saved from demolition by the 4th Marquis of Bute in 1938-40. His son gave the house to…
Lakeland is situated in a heritage-rich store at 50 St John's Street. Built as the headquarters of the Central Bank and designed by David Rhind, this…
The swimming pool was gifted to the town in 1923 by Provost James Laidlaw.�It was extended to provide a 25 metre pool in 1974, and a fitness suite was…
Single-storey, thatched, cruck-framed longhouse once typical of the area, now a museum of crofting in Caithness Tel: (01593) 731244
Endowed by Sophia, Marchioness of Bute, in memory of her tragic sister Lady Flora Hastings. Opened as a school for girls in 1877 and continued until…
Visit the historic Kincardine former parish church with its unique ceiling. There is also a graveyard with several interesting grave slabs. See the…
Liz and Simon Holmes invite you to enjoy the sights, sounds and indeed the memories of a tranquill Carsphairn glen. Today the site of two annual…
A stone-lined underground chamber, possibly built as a souterrain in the late Bronze Age, but thought to have been used more recently as an illicit…
The stonebuilt Category B listed Knightswood St. Margaret's Parish Church, designed by the well known architect Sir Robert Lorimer, dominates…
Kittybrewster Police Station?has various police departments.
Access is by pre-booked tour only. Airlie Estates, including Cortachy Castle and Airlie Castle have been held by the Ogilvy Family for at least 700…
This is a sandstone built Church with square tower. The interior is finished sandstone with quotations etched into the sandstone.The Architect is Me…
This station is normally staffed by up to 20 personnel working on a retained duty system. It is provided with 2 fire appliances which are equipped to…
The East Church amalgamated in 1967 from two churches —the Paterson and King Street congregations. The current congregation worships in this King…
The design of the church is late Georgian Gothic despite its Victorian date. High in the north gable above the big pointed window with Y-traceried…
At southern end of village up hill at the Shanter Hotel Robert Adam church 1777, restored 1997, which replaced 1230 building now a ruin in Old Church…
Old church c.1230 is a ruin. It is reputed to have been built on the site of a church built by Oswald, King of Northumbria. It contains an old font…
The present church dates from 1787 and is believed to be the third on the site. The central stone pulpit is a memorial to the fallen of WW1. The…
Simple parish kirk set in burial ground close by the River Avon. No longer in ecclesiastical use.
Old weaver's cottage now a community shop and cafe, opposite McCosh Hall. Once Jock's Restaurant, with the help of c.50 volunteers the…
The medieval buildings at Kirkmichael were originally a pre-Reformation church, becoming a post-Reformation kirk until it was replaced in 1769. The…
As trouble and religions strife racked Scotland and noblemen and gentry queued to sign with their own blood the National Covenant, protesting against…
Kirkliston Parish Church was built in about 1200 while the Bell Tower is a bird cage belfry with a single bell dated 1687. Many interesting graves…
A walking tour started from Kirkintilloch Town Hall and tracing the former course of Kirkintilloch's Passenger Railway which closed in 1964.
Originally opened to the public in 1906, Kirkintilloch Town Hall has had a new lease of life reopening after refurbishment in 2018.This year the Town…
Hillhead Sculpture Studio has been working in Hillhead, Kirkintilloch since 2010, engaging local people and children in traditional craft and heritage…
Site of a former canal boatbuilding yard, now a focus for canalside leisure activities.
This impressive church has been completed very recently, to replace a more traditional building on the same site. The building, designed by Davis…
A complex structure where the Forth & Clyde Canal passes over both the River Luggie and a former railway.
The old Burying Ground at the west end of Kirkgate Park was also the location for the Parish Church until 1743 when a replacement was built on the…
The Kirkdale sawmill is driven by an overshot waterwheel and dates form the early 1800s. It was used as an estate sawmill and joiners' shop until the…
Award winning Kirkconnel Parish Heritage Society has been transforming this ex-mining village since 1997. Visit the Heritage Base with its collection…
The original Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court building was built in 1894, and opened in May of that year. A modern extension was added in 1982, providing…
Kirkcaldy Old Kirk is the site of the first Christian worship in Kirkcaldy after the Celtic missionaries brought the faith here in the 5th century.…
Kirkcaldy Old KirkKirkcaldy Old Kirk is the site of the first Christian worship in Kirkcaldy after the Celtic missionaries brought the faith here in the 5th century.…
Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery virtual tourExperience Kirkcaldy’s heritage inside the oldest building in town in continuous use. View the beautiful stained glass windows by Burne-Jones and…
The history of the building is bound up with Dysart House as It once served as offices and laundry for the Sinclair and Nairn families. From 1930 it…
Tucked into a fold of land which shelters it from the sea winds along the Carrick Shore, you will find an extraordinary small building. B listed…
The Mither Kirk is one of the most historically important buildings in Aberdeen, with some surviving elements from the late 12th century in Collison's…
Famed landmark building, known as the 'M8 Church'. sits high on hill to immediate south of M8 Glasgow-Edinburgh motorway at its highest point between…
Based within a unique authentic survival of a central hearth homestead, of North European importance, dating to at least the 16C. John Hume, ex-Senior…
A chance to see the inshore lifeboat station in the Solway village of Kippford and get a close up view of the D class lifeboat. Kippford RNLI was…
The Smiddy is located next to The Cross in Kippen, right at the centre of the village. It was used by the Rennie family as a blacksmiths for nearly…
Situated in the beautiful village of Kippen is the Category B Listed Kippen Parish Church. A church in Kippen was first mentioned in public records in…
Being so far inland, Kippen is not somewhere you would expect to find a boat builders! Boats used to be fully built and fitted out in Kippen before…
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Work on this handsome piece of civic pride began in 1737, the year after the Earl of Kintore was elected provost; the cost was borne by him. It is…
In 1902 the collector and antiquarian David Marshall left his collection to the inhabitants of Kinross. The Museum has grown over the years and is now…
Kinnoull Primary School has been in the present building since 1876. The school was built on the site of Witch Hill Quarry. Recently there has been…