This list includes the historic houses, castles, abbeys, museums and other buildings and monuments in the care of Historic Environment Scotland (HES). HES () is a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, responsible for investigating, caring for and promoting Scotland’s historic environment. It maintains over 300 properties, that together attract more than 3 million visitors annually.
The list is grouped by Scottish council areas.
Aberdeen City Name Image Notes St Machar's Cathedral Transepts The ruined transepts of St Machar's Cathedral.
Aberdeenshire Name Image Notes Brandsbutt Stone An early Pictish symbol stone. Corgarff Castle Tower house surrounded by a star-shaped perimeter wall of 18th-century date. Cullerlie Stone Circle A stone circle of eight stones. Culsh Earth House A well-preserved souterrain. Deer Abbey Remains of a Cistercian monastery. Duff House Early Georgian estate house designed by William Adam for the Earl of Fife. Dyce Symbol Stones Two Pictish stones, one with the older type of incised symbols. Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle A recumbent stone circle about 4000 years old. Glenbuchat Castle A Z-plan castle. Huntly Castle Ruined baronial castle. Kildrummy Castle A 13th-century castle. Kinkell Church Ruins of a 16th-century parish church. Kinnaird Head Castle Lighthouse 16th-century castle altered in 1787 to take the first lighthouse built by the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses. Kinnaird Head Wine Tower A 16th-century tower. Loanhead Stone Circle The best known of a group of recumbent stone circles. Maiden Stone Pictish cross slab of the 9th century AD. Memsie Cairn A large Bronze Age burial cairn. Peel Ring of Lumphanan Earthworks of a 13th-century motte-and-bailey castle. Picardy Symbol Stone Pictish symbol stones. St Mary's Kirk, Auchindoir Medieval parish church. Tarves Medieval Tomb Altar tomb of William Forbes. Tolquhon Castle Castle built by William Forbes, 7th Laird of Tolquhon, from 1584 to 1589. Tomnaverie Stone Circle A recumbent stone circle about 4000 years old.
Angus Name Image Notes Aberlemno Sculptured Stones Range of Pictish sculptured stones depicting a hunting scene, battle scene and an army of men. Arbroath Abbey Arbroath Abbey is famous for its association with the Declaration of Arbroath. Ardestie Earth House A curved underground gallery. Brechin Cathedral Round Tower One of the two remaining round towers of the Irish type in Scotland. Carlungie Earth House A complex underground structure of Iron Age date. Caterthuns Two large hill forts. Eassie Sculptured Stone An elaborately sculptured Pictish cross-slab. Edzell Castle Ruined 16th-century castle with an early-17th-century walled garden. Lindsay Burial Aisle Remains of the 14th-century Edzell Old Church. Maison Dieu Chapel, Brechin Part of the south wall of a chapel, belonging to a medieval hospital founded in the 1260s. Restenneth Priory A monastic house of Augustinian canons founded in 1153. St Orland's Stone A tall, Pictish cross-slab with a prominent, ornate cross. St Vigeans Sculptured Stones A collection of over 30 Pictish carved stones. Tealing Dovecot A dovecot of the late 16th century. Tealing Earth House An Iron Age earth house or souterrain.
Argyll and Bute Name Image Notes Ardchattan Priory The ruins of a Valliscaulian priory founded in 1230 and later converted to secular use. Bonawe Historic Iron Furnace The most complete charcoal-fuelled ironworks in Britain, founded in 1753. Carnasserie Castle Home of John Carswell, first Protestant Bishop of the Isles. Castle Sween One of the earliest castles in Scotland. Dunstaffnage Castle and Chapel Stronghold of the MacDougalls. Eileach an Naoimh Ruins of Early Christian beehive cells, a chapel and a graveyard on a small island in the Firth of Lorne. St Cormac's Chapel, Eilean Mor A chapel on a small island in the Sound of Jura. Site includes St Cormac's Cross and St Cormac's Cave. Inchkenneth Chapel Medieval church. Iona Abbey One of Scotland's most historic and sacred sites. Iona Nunnery One of the best-preserved medieval nunnery churches in the British Isles. Keills Chapel A small West Highland chapel housing a collection of 12th-century grave slabs. Kilberry Sculptured Stones A collection of late-medieval sculptured stones gathered from the Kilberry estate. Kilchurn Castle Four-storey tower built in the mid-15th century by Sir Colin Campbell. Kildalton Cross The finest intact high cross in Scotland carved in the late 8th century. Kilmartin Glen: Achnabreck Cup And Ring Marks The exposed crest of a rocky ridge with well-preserved cup and ring marks of early prehistoric date. Kilmartin Glen: Ballygowan Cup And Ring Marks Cup and ring marks on natural rock faces, of early prehistoric date. Kilmartin Glen: Baluachraig Cup And Ring Marks Several groups of early prehistoric cup and ring marks on natural rock faces. Close to Dunchraigaig cairn. Kilmartin Glen: Cairnbaan Cup And Ring Marks Carved stone of the Bronze Age within Kilmartin Glen. Kilmartin Glen: Dunadd Fort Well-preserved hill fort of Kilmartin Glen. Kilmartin Glen: Dunchraigaig Cairn Bronze Age cairn within Kilmartin Glen. Kilmartin Glen: Glebe Cairn, Kilmartin Early Bronze Age burial cairn. Kilmartin Glen: Kilmartin Sculptured Stones Early-medieval and medieval crosses of Kilmartin Glen. Kilmartin Glen: Kilmichael Glassary Cup And Ring Marks Early prehistoric cup and ring carvings of Kilmartin Glen.Nether Largie Cairns A Neolithic and two Bronze Age cairns of Kilmartin Glen.Ri Cruin Cairn Bronze Age burial cairn within Kilmartin Glen.Temple Wood Stone Circles Standing stones of Kilmartin Glen dating to about 3000 BC. Kilmodan Sculptured Stones A group of West Highland carved grave slabs exhibited in a burial aisle within Kilmodan churchyard. Kilmory Knap Chapel A small medieval chapel with a collection of typical West Highland grave slabs and some early medieval sculpture. Maclean's Cross A 15th-century free-standing cross. Rothesay Castle Castle with a long and close association with the Stewart Kings of Scotland. Skipness Castle and Chapel A 13th-century castle with a 16th-century tower house in one corner. St Blane's Church, Kingarth A 12th-century Romanesque chapel. St Mary's Chapel, Rothesay Late-medieval remains of the chancel of the Parish Church of St Mary.
Ayrshire
East Ayrshire Name Image Notes Loch Doon Castle Castle containing an eleven-sided curtain wall of fine masonry.
North Ayrshire Name Image Notes Auchagallon Stone Circle A Bronze Age kerb cairn. Carn Ban One of the most famous of the Neolithic long cairns of south-west Scotland. Kilpatrick Dun Ruins of a circular drystone homestead of unknown date. Kilwinning Abbey Remains of a Tironensian-Benedictine abbey. Lochranza Castle An L-plan tower house situated on a promontory on the Isle of Arran. Machrie Moor Stone Circles Remains of six stone circles of Bronze Age date. Moss Farm Road Stone Circle The remains of a Bronze Age cairn. Skelmorlie Aisle Monument erected for Sir Robert Montgomerie of Skelmorlie. Torr a'Chaisteal A circular Iron Age fort on a ridge. Torrylin Cairn A Neolithic chambered cairn.
South Ayrshire Name Image Notes Crossraguel Abbey Abbey founded early in the 13th century by the Earl of Carrick. Dundonald Castle Castle built by Robert II in the 1370s to mark his succession to the throne of Scotland. Maybole Collegiate Church College associated with St Mary Chapel.
Clackmannanshire Name Image Notes Castle Campbell 15th-century fortress situated above Dollar Glen. Clackmannan Tower A 14th-century keep.
Dumfries and Galloway Name Image Notes Barsalloch Fort An Iron Age promontory fort, defended by a deep u-shaped ditch. Caerlaverock Castle Castle with moat, twin towered gatehouse and imposing battlements. Cairn Holy Chambered Cairns Two Neolithic burial cairns, of a type characteristic of Galloway. Cardoness Castle A well-preserved six-storey tower house of the McCulloch dating back to the 15th century. Carsluith Castle A well-preserved ruin of a tower house of 16th-century date. Chapel Finian Remains of a small chapel built in the Irish style. Druchtag Motte An example of a motte castle. Drumcoltran Tower A well-preserved mid 16th-century tower. Drumtroddan Cup And Ring Marked Rocks Three groups of well-defined cup and ring marks on bedrock probably carved in the Bronze Age.Drumtroddan standing stones An alignment of three prehistoric stones. Dundrennan Abbey Cistercian abbey built in the latter half of the 12th century. Glenluce Abbey Abbey founded around 1192. Kirkmadrine Early Christian Stones Three of the earliest Christian memorial stones in Britain. Laggangairn Standing Stones Stones carved with early Christian crosses. Lincluden Collegiate Church Remains of a collegiate church and the accommodation for its canons founded in 1389. Lochmaben Castle A Z-plan tower house. MacLellan's Castle Late 16th-century noble residence. Merkland Cross A carved wayside cross of the 15th century. Morton Castle A late-13th-century hall house, a stronghold of the Douglases. New Abbey Corn Mill Fully restored water-powered corn mill. Orchardton Tower Tower house of the mid-15th-century. Rispain Camp Rectangular settlement defended by a bank and ditch. Ruthwell Cross Anglian Cross dating from the end of the 7th century. St Ninian's Cave Cave traditionally associated with St Ninian. St Ninian's Chapel Restored ruins of a 13th-century chapel, probably used by pilgrims on their way to Whithorn. Sweetheart Abbey Abbey founded by Lady Dervorgilla of Galloway in memory of her husband John Balliol. Threave Castle A 14th-century tower built by Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway, on an island in the River Dee. Torhouse Stone Circle A Bronze Age stone circle consisting of 19 boulders. Wanlockhead Beam Engine An early-19th-century wooden water-balance pump for draining a lead mine. Whithorn Priory Cradle of Christianity in Scotland.
Dunbartonshire
East Dunbartonshire Name Image Notes Antonine Wall: Bar Hill Fort Highest fort on the Antonine Wall. Antonine Wall: Bearsden Bath House Remains of a bath-house and latrine built in the 2nd century AD.
West Dunbartonshire Name Image Notes Dumbarton Castle Dumbarton was the centre of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde from the 5th century until 1018.
Dundee City Name Image Notes Broughty Castle Castle, built hastily, but perhaps unnecessarily. It figured in only two national emergencies over 450 years. Claypotts Castle A 16th-century castle.
Edinburgh, City of Name Image Notes Corstorphine Dovecot A large circular ‘beehive’ dovecot. Craigmillar Castle A well-preserved medieval castle, with a tower house, courtyard and gardens. Eagle Rock, Cramond A much-defaced carving on natural rock. Edinburgh Castle World-famous castle which dominates the sky-line of the city of Edinburgh. Holyrood Abbey The ruined nave of the 12th- and 13th-century abbey church, and a three-storey building on Abbey Strand from the late 15th or early 16th century. Holyrood Park Historic landscape in the heart of the city, with dramatic crags and hills. St Triduana's Chapel, Restalrig Collegiate Church Shrine of St Triduana, a Pictish saint. Trinity House Home to a collection of maritime memorabilia.
Falkirk Name Image Notes Antonine Wall: Castlecary The low earthworks of a fort. Antonine Wall: Rough Castle Best-preserved length of rampart and ditch. Antonine Wall: Seabegs Wood A stretch of rampart and ditch with the military way behind. Antonine Wall: Watling Lodge A stretch of rampart and ditch. Blackness Castle Castle built by one of Scotland's most powerful families, the Crichtons. Kinneil House 15th-century tower remodelled by the Earl of Arran. Westquarter Dovecot Rectangular dovecot with a heraldic panel dated 1647.
Fife