St Andrews Harbour is among the historic sites to benefit from a £1.6 million investment.
It has been granted £22,000 under Historic Scotland’s building repairs grants scheme. The total will be used to install pontoons.
Harbour master Colin Brown said: “It will make the harbour more user friendly. If you’ve got a disability, it will mean you’re not (going) up and down ladders. It’s going to be a lot safer.”
Mr Brown said more improvements are planned for the harbour, including power points, but more funding would be needed for the next phase of the project.
He added: “This is stage one but we’ve a lot further to go.”
Parts of Glasgow’s Necropolis and the City Observatory on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill are among the eight funding recipients.
Also benefiting are Castle Mill Works and the former North British Rubber Factory in Edinburgh, Westmuir Street School and Alexandra Park in Glasgow, Ferryhill engine shed in Aberdeen and the Stovehouse in Auchincruive, South Ayrshire.
The recipients were announced by Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop on a visit to Castle Mill Works.
The building is to be given a £500,000 makeover by Edinburgh Printmakers, who want to create an internationally-recognised centre for excellence in printmaking and a hub for arts and community projects.
Ms Hyslop said: “This scheme helps to protect and promote, as well as transform and bring back into use, some of Scotland’s most historically and architecturally significant buildings.
“This magnificent former Victorian factory in Fountainbridge is one of eight projects in total, throughout Scotland, to receive grant funding and aims to see this derelict building once again filled with purpose and take on a new role as a creative arts hub.”
Alastair Snow, chairman of Edinburgh Printmakers, said: “We are delighted with this award.”