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The former Rosemount ?Church was converted to accommodate a range of activities for this NE charity.?

The Clan Gunn Heritage Centre is housed in the Old Parish Church, Latheron, just off the A99 to Wick and displays a fascinating exhibition describing the history of the Clan Gunn from its Norse origins to the present day against the history of the…

A redundant church converted to a cancer support centre. A wide range of activities are now accommodated here. On the first floor, large glazed screens allow for functional subdivision while retaining some of the spatial character of the church. Some…

Clarendon, or Torwood Villa as it was originally named, was built in the mid 19th century. The two extensions you can see on either side of the original building were designed by William Leiper, the famous Scottish architect, in 1888 and 1891.During…

Local community fire station serving Clarkston, Newton Mearns, Giffnock and surrounding communities. The station has 1 main building comprised of an appliance room, offices, kitchen and gymnasium. It also has a drill tower in the rear yard.

Viewbank contains a clay stove - similar to a 'Finnish Stove' and built largely of clay. At this stage the stove is not plumbed into a heating system and so provides heat directly to the house. The stove was installed in June as part of ClayFest 2015…

There has been a church on this site since the 13th century. In 1775, the church was rebuilt to a design by the influential and local architect John Adam. Following a fire in 1832, the present church by McIntosh was built in its place. The chancel…

The ground floor of this Grade C-listed property in Milngavie was bequeathed to Spinal Injuries Scotland. It forms part of a 280 year old farmhouse which includes an extensive garden. The garden has previously been featured by the BBC in The…

Probably built in l839, this tall baronial clock tower dominates The Square at the centre of the town; clock installed in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Accommodates Tourist Information Office.

The Cloud Water Zen Centre opened in 2017 for people of any faith or belief. It offers a space for quiet meditation and reflection, set in an impressive 8 storey red sandstone building in the heart of Glasgow city centre. Cloud Water Zen Centre…

Traditional croft-house renovated in modern-rustic style by the architect Richard Gibson who uses it as a "beach-house retreat", reachable only by boat or by track over the moor, no dogs allowed.

The Resource Centre is in the Hub of Robert Street Community and is a place where local people can access computers, learn new skills and gain credited certificates in a variety of subjects. A community café is on site where healthy food can…

A beautiful large Victorian building just south-east of Forres. The building is set in extensive gardens and woods, and overlooking a golf course. It was originally a hydropathic establishment with a lovely ballroom and dining room and is now an…

Formerly Clyde Street school, it was built in Scots Revival style. Inside, the classrooms run off the Glasgow-style galleried hall, with its fine hammerbeam roof.

1960s modern with clerestory glazing into a chimneyed tower on the east side. Hall of Remembrance, Memorial Chapel, Cremation Room.

Gardner's design for this building, with its facade of Ionic columns and a hint of French historicism, was the winner of a competition of which one of the adjudicators was James Miller architect of the Municipal Buildings. The interior has recently…

Refurbished museum with shop.

How to get there : Glasgow Road, near Kilbowie Road intersection. Recently restored and renovated 1902 building by James Miller. The clock tower was originally plain on a building which became the focus of the town's administration. A Winged Mercury…

Seldom open to the public, this is Clydeport's superb A-listed head office. Originally the Clyde Trust Building, it contains many original features such as French walnut panelling and Stephen Adam stained glass.The Clydeport head office in Robertson…

Designed by leading architects Cooper Cromar, Clyde View is Riverside Inverclyde’s new state of the art office building at 22 Pottery Street, Greenock. The building offers, over two floors, 20,697 sq ft of accommodation subdivided into a range of…

The charming red brick building and garden area, found at the end of a cobbled lane, is discretely sheltered from the bustling activity of the city's west end. Converted in 2001, many of the original features have been retained.�

Starting in Anstruther, the Coastal Rowing Project has seen the construction of 22 foot skiffs to a common design in an increasing number of coastal communities. The old Coble House on the Quay is the HQ of the Eyemouth Project. Image: Coble House

CGOC Shetland is one of 10 operations centres plus the National Maritime Operations Centre which make up HM Coastguards National Search and Rescue network responding to emergencies on the shoreline and at sea within the UK Search and Rescue Region.…

Adjacent to Lighthouse. Station display of rescue equipment and rescue vehicle. Staff on hand to give advice. Traditional two storey building unsuitable for disabled access but vehicle and equipment on ground level.

One of North Lanarkshire's largest fire stations, Coatbridge Community Fire Station also houses a Mass Decontamination Unit.Tours of the fire station and fire engines and information on rescue techniques. Meet the fire service personnel and find out…

Coatbridge High School is a C listed building by H and P Barclay (1908) which has had various additions built on to it over the years. The orginal building is of red stone ashlar, some bull-faced coursers and slate roof.

New for this year, Cochno House was built in 1757 and is attributed to John Adam. It is a deep-plan, seven bay pavilion roofed house of classical distinction. It is now part of the Glasgow Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Limited access to the…

Next to John Knox House is Moubray House. Although the frontage dates from c. 1630, the house was originally built around 1477, by Robert Moubray. ˜Andrew Moubray built a new house at the rear in 1529. It was restored by the Cockburn Society in 1910.…

A 1200 mega watt coal-fired working power station opened in 1968.

Venue is a modern industrial unit where you can view the chefs making chocolate and patisserie products.In the town centre you can visit the caf� and purchase their products and have coffee etc.The Shop and caf� in the Town Centre is in Bridge House…

Coldingham Village Hall dates from the end of the nineteenth century, and is described as being a �well-detailed public hall�. It has recently been extensively upgraded and refurbished to give it a new lease of life at the heart of the village.�

Architects Page & Park have fitted a large modern building, providing a range of flexible spaces, into the burial ground of Sidney Mitchell's 1907-08 St Cuthbert's Church. A simple steel frame, natural stone ground floor walls, timber and glass…

Built in 1813 on the site of a church consecrated in 1242, the building was extensively upgraded 100 years ago when in 1919 the stained glass window was installed. The cemetery contains a conserved Morthouse, a Mausoleum with Romanesque arch, 17th…

The iconic City Observatory on Calton Hill, designed by William Playfair in 1818, was restored and re-opened in 2018 as part of Collective, a new centre for contemporary art. Calton Hill was the birthplace of astronomy and time-keeping in Edinburgh…

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"Guided tours from the village hall will take you around this historic village. Visit the ancient site where a Church has stood since at least 1243, view inside the current building and the 17th Century Melville Tomb. Learn more about the history and…

Remodelled in 1849 and noted for magnificent stained glass with windows by Louis Davies and Douglas Strachan, plus modern glass. External stair, chancel, pulpit and organ case by Sir Robert Lorimer from 1899 onwards.

This B listed elegant rectangular-plan gothic church was designed by Alexander Wallace in 1878. The church contains an elegant pulpit of Caen stone from France with pillars of dark Serpentine marble. The Church organ was built by Thomas Lewis and Son…

This event is part of the Kelvin Valley Heritage Walks programme organised by Friends of the Kelvin Valley Park Group. Walk is around 2.5 km (1.5 miles) in length with 20 m (70 feet) height surfaced paths.

This beautiful, south-facing, award winning garden is situated just above Colzium House at around 500ft above sea level and is home to many rare plants and has something to offer throughout the year. The garden brings together a unique collection of…

Colzium House was built in 1783, it was substantially enlarged in 1861, but much of the original building was pulled down in the late 1940s, due to dry rot, but the Victorian frontage and wings survive to form the house we see today. The museum…

The Forest Heritage Scotland project held a Come Listen to the Crofters event. Traditional Highland folk stories were told at the stunning venue of Arichonan, a deserted township.??

The Common Guild is a leading visual arts organisation and gallery located in a Victorian townhouse in Glasgow's Park Circus. Established in 2006 it presents a dynamic, international programme of contemporary visual art projects, exhibitions, and…

The Hall was opened in 1843 as the meeting place of the Liberton and Newington Free Church of Scotland. Built to the design of Free Church architect David Cousin, it was enlarged with Galleries and schoolrooms soon after.This year is the 25th…

The services in the Health and Care Village, an urban community hospital (without beds); have been brought together under one roof from a number of locations across the city, including Woolmanhill Hospital, Denburn Health Centre, the Foresterhill…

The Institute provides Chinese language teaching and cultural events to the North East Scotland community. It acts as a linguistic and cultural bridge, promoting knowledge exchange between China and the people of North East Scotland and serving as…

The Church is located at the east end of Bourtree Place. Constructed in 1894, at a cost of �3200, it is an imposing figure upon the streetscape. Internally the building has a high barrel vaulted timber roof with a gallery around the three sides…

Only the chapel and one bay of this Episcopalian convent were ever completed. Doors Open Day provides a rare opportunity to visit the chapel. The rugged solidity of the apse viewed from the Spital gives no hint of the magical quality of the interior.

Part of the model farm by George Truefitt for Sir William Cunliffe Brooks.? Originally intended as cowshed, the Coo Cathedral as Romanesque arcades of dressed stone, forming nave and aisles, with a Basilican interior.? Part of the Aboyne Caslte…

The Copland & Lye Clock was originally installed in the former department store in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, in 1952. It has been a feature of the pedestrian precinct in central Milngavie since 1981.?

Original stone built farm cottage of Ashfield Farm, Milngavie. Possibly the oldest remaining house of the village, and still in use today as the home of Milngavie Pipe Band.?The cottage contains a display of Milngavie Pipe Band's trophies and history…

The estate was established in the 14th century and remains in private ownership. Corehouse was built in 1824-27 by Edward Blore of London, who also worked on Buckingham Palace. It is considered the pioneer house in Scotland of Tudor Revival domestic…

18C farm which has been restored to its mid-19C heyday. Peat fires, smoking fish, straw "simmons" strung across the parlour and a range of early farm machinery and livestock await the visitor. The Custodian has recently received an MBE for his…

Built by William McCandlish in 1852, this church features a memorial window to James Clerk Maxwell and other fine stained glass windows. There is a plaster bust of Alexander Murray Dunlop, a lawyer prominent in the act of succession and the church…

The church was constituted in 1929 by members of local congregations of the United Free Church who did not wish to re-join the Church of Scotland. The building was opened on the 6th June 1930. It was the first United Free Church (Continuing) building…

Well-preserved 16th century beehive-type doo'cot, now in the care of Historic Scotland. Still has the potence (French for gallows) for gaining access to the 1,060 nesting boxes on 28 tiers to collect squabs (baby pigeons), an important source of meat…

This Tower on the summit of Corstorphine Hill was built as a viewpoint and as a memorial to Sir Walter Scott in 1871, 100 years after Scott's death. It is built of local stone and is ascended by an internal staircase to the viewing platform. From…

This Tower on the summit of Corstorphine Hill was built as a viewpoint and as a memorial to Sir Walter Scott in 1871, 100 years after Scott's death. It is built of local stone and is ascended by an internal staircase to the viewing platform. From…

This Medieval Church opened in the 15th Century, originally as a Collegiate Church. After the Reformation, the College was dissolved and the Church was used for Parish worship. From 1650 to 1651 the Church building was occupied by Cromwell's troops…

The Cottage is nestled in the heart of West Princes Street Gardens, below the floral clock. This Category C-listed cottage was designed by Architect Robert Morham in 1886. Originally the Head Gardener’s house, the Cottage has now been restored into a…

Buildings that were “made out of the ground upon which they stood” were once the most common vernacular structures in parts of Scotland...... for more information visit: taylp.org/historicbuildings/clay-buildings-of-the-carse/ Music: The Lass o'…

Clay Buildings of the Carse Buildings that were “made out of the ground upon which they stood” were once the most common vernacular structures in parts of Scotland. In the Carse of Gowrie, a substantial number of significant historical structures…

Clay Buildings of the Carse Buildings that were “made out of the ground upon which they stood” were once the most common vernacular structures in parts of Scotland. In the Carse of Gowrie, a substantial number of significant historical structures…

The Coull Kirk was built in 1796 incorporating in the Neo-Classical style? incorporating the 17th century gable end and birdcage belfry of the previous church St Nathalan is believed to have been a 7th century monk, who founded the first church on…

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The Coupar Angus and District Heritage Association was established in January 2000 with the aim of raising awareness of the local historic environment. In 2006, a four year project came to fruition when the Association opened premises in a former…

Built in 1762 by public subscription this was the meeting place for the town committee and courthouse for the Justice of the Peace, with the lower portion of the steeple used as a gaol. The building is six storeys high with a tall roof slated in a…

Category "B" Listed BuildingA classical renaissance facade with an arched and channelled ground floor followed by square headed windows with architraves on the first floor and balustrade above. An arched porch with pink granite columns and…

Although now serving as offices for The Highland Council, Nairn Court House was originally buiIt in 1817-18 as a prison and courthouse. The building was extensively altered and extended in 1868-1870 by Elgin architects, A & W Reid. Although the…

In sedate Baronial style. Extended in contemporary form in late 1990s by Law & Dunbar-Nasmith.

***UPDATE: TOURS OF COVESEA LIGHTHOUSE ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED FOR MORAY DOORS OPEN DAY 2019, SORRY. HOWEVER YOU CAN STILL COME ALONG TO SEE THE GROUNDS AND NEARBY ARMED FORCES HERITAGE CENTRE *** The Alan Stevenson designed Covesea Skerries Lighthouse…

As part of Doors Open Day Cowal Open Studios offers? 43 venues which? will be open to the public featuring the work of eminent local artists and makers.? Many situated in beautiful and more remote parts of Cowal and others based in the town of Dunoon…

49 St John Street, Stirling FK8 1ED This Category A Listed hospital building at the Top of the Town was designed by John Mylne in 1639 and founded by John Cowane for poor members of the local Merchant Guild. Originally two storeys inside it was…

This large fire station provides fire cover to most of Glasgow city centre from the River Clyde northwards. Find out more about Glasgow's Firefighters and the inner workings of a station.Limited disabled accessFor more information go to…

The Cowgate probably developed as a street in the early fourteenth century. By the sixteenth century it was considered one of the more prosperous parts of Edinburgh. The writer and theologian Alexander Alesius (who was born in Edinburgh in 1500)…

The Cowgate probably developed as a street in the early fourteenth century. By the sixteenth century it was considered one of the more prosperous parts of Edinburgh. The writer and theologian Alexander Alesius (who was born in Edinburgh in 1500)…

The Cowgate Under 5s Centre is a wonderful teaching facility in the centre of Edinburgh. Designed by Allan Murray Architects, the building won Best Public Project at the 2003 Scottish Design Awards and was a finalist in the Prime Minister?s Award for…

Category B Listed Building.St Mary of the Storms is a rare medieval survivor with rubble-built east gable wall and three deeply-set early English lancets. Lengthened in 15th century with rectangular windows in west gable and late medieval priest's…

Listed Category A.Dated 1641 or 1644, Coxton is a 4-storey tower house with a single vaulted room on each floor linked by a narrow spiral stair within the wall thickness. The roof is of stone slabs on a pointed vault, with two circular enclosed…

Craigard House was built in 1182 in the Italianate style, popular at the time. It was designed by architect, Henry Clifford, for the local Whisky Distiller, William McKersie, and remained in the same family until 1942, when it was purchased by the…

Mrs Sykes invites you into her home and that of Annie Laurie, the heroine of 'the world's greatest love-song', where she lived with her husband Alexander Fergusson in the early 1700's. The earliest records of Craigdarroch date to the 14th century but…

12th century Norman with 18th century extension. Oldest church in Ayrshire still in use. Restoration by P McGregor Chalmers, 1919. Fine dog-toothed three-light windows and collar-beam roof with original timbers. Fine stained glass by Gordon Webster,…

Early English-style nave and chancel. No tower but a bellcote containing bells recast from the fragments of 'Auld Lowrie', the great bell which had hung in the tower of the Kirk of St Nicholas from 1351 until it was shattered when it fell during the…

Visit furniture maker Matthew White's workshop and showroom to see traditional quality crafsmanship in pine and native hardwoods. Beautiful farm walk from car park takes you through herb-rich river margins, ancient woodland and upland wildflower…

Craiglockhart Parish Church was designed by Edinburgh architects Hay & Henderson. It was built in red sandstone, quarried at Locharbriggs, in the style of fifteenth century Gothic with Scottish characteristics. Grade B listed, the church features…

The present building dates to 1883 and is in the simple Early English Gothic style. Located above the magnificent town hall, it has wonderful views out to the Forth and is itself a prominent sea-mark. The tall angled buttressed tower with its crown…

The station was opened on Doors Open Day to provide a fun look behind the scenes including the custody suite and a chance to enjoy displays by some of the specialist services (horses, dogs, traffic etc.) as well as displays from other emergency…

Pre-booked guided tours only. An unusual opportunity to visit a working granite quarry, first opened in the late 18C. Craignair has helped to shape Dalbeattie, providing the town with its building stone and providing generations of employment for its…

This Sanctuary was designed in the 1960s by Sir William Kininmonth. Influenced by Le Corbusiers Chapel at Ronchamp, the Sanctuary has an illusion of floating above ground with its the striking square plan and plain white windowless exterior. The…

Craigston Castle is thought to belong to the Bell Group of Scottish castles, forming ??perhaps Scotland?s finest and the most distinctive contribution to western architecture? (H. Gordon Slade).The Urquhart family is one of the oldest in Scotland and…

The small village of Cramond, on the edge of Edinburgh, is one of Scotland’s most important archaeological sites. People have lived in and around Cramond for at least ten thousand years. Today Cramond is a pleasant commuter village for Edinburgh…

The small village of Cramond, on the edge of Edinburgh, is one of Scotland’s most important archaeological sites. People have lived in and around Cramond for at least ten thousand years. Today Cramond is a pleasant commuter village for Edinburgh…

New church hall by Smith Scott Mullan Architects. Large airy spaces, interesting use of copper and traditional materials in a modern style, with unusual apertures and shafts of light illuminating throughout.

Cramond Kirk is a church situated in the area of Cramond in the north west of Edinburgh, Scotland. Built on the site of an old Roman fort, parts of the Cramond Kirk building date back to the fourteenth century and the church tower is considered to be…

Cramond Kirk is a church situated in the area of Cramond in the north west of Edinburgh, Scotland. Built on the site of an old Roman fort, parts of the Cramond Kirk building date back to the fourteenth century and the church tower is considered to be…