Andrew Heiton

Andrew Heiton (3 April 1823 – 3 March 1894) was a Scottish architect. He designed several notable buildings in Scotland, mostly railway stations and country houses.

Early life Heiton was born in Inchture, Perth and Kinross, the son of Andrew Heiton, another architect, and Janet Lorimer. He had at least one brother, the younger Thomas Arthur Heiton. Greig Institute, Leven (1872) Victoria Buildings, Perth (1872) 26 Tay Street, Perth (c. 1873) Vogrie House, Midlothian (1875) Station Hotel, Perth (1885) St Andrew's Church, Perth (1885) Fonab Castle, Perth and Kinross (1892)

Personal life

In 1870, Heiton's self-designed double villa, Craigievar and Darnick, on Perth's Kinnoull Terrace, was completed.

Death Heiton died in Perth in 1894, aged 70. He is buried in Greyfriars Burial Ground, just off the city's Tay Street, where several of his works still stand. His headstone was one of several removed and restored in 2019.

His practice was taken on by his nephew Andrew Heiton Granger, who switched around his name to become Andrew Granger Heiton.