Listed Buildings in England

Listed buildings in England are buildings, structures, and sometimes sites that have been placed on the National Heritage List for England because of their special architectural or historic interest. Listing helps recognise and protect parts of the built environment that are considered important to the country’s heritage. A listed entry may cover a house, church, bridge, monument, public building, industrial structure, or other historic asset.

When a building is listed, it does not mean it must be frozen in time, but it does mean that any changes affecting its character usually need special consideration. The purpose of listing is to make sure important historic places are understood, recorded, and protected for future generations. Across England, listed buildings range from world-famous landmarks to modest local buildings that still have strong historical or architectural value.

Because listed buildings reflect many different periods, styles, and uses, the list offers a wide view of England’s history. Some entries relate to medieval churches and castles, while others cover Georgian terraces, Victorian civic buildings, rural farmhouses, industrial works, war memorials, and 20th-century architecture. Together, they form a rich record of the country’s development over time.

What are Grade I, Grade II, and Grade II*

Listed buildings in England are grouped into three grades to show their relative significance. Grade I is used for buildings of exceptional interest. These are the most important listed buildings and include some of the country’s most remarkable historic places.

Grade II*, spoken as “Grade Two Star”, is used for particularly important buildings of more than special interest. This grade sits between Grade I and Grade II and covers buildings that are especially significant in architectural or historic terms.

Grade II is the most common grade. It is used for buildings of special interest that deserve to be preserved. Although Grade II is the lowest of the three grades, it still marks a building as nationally important in heritage terms.

Grade I, Grade II*, and Grade II listed buildings account for approximately 2%, 6%, and 92% of all listed buildings in England, respectively.

The list begins in 1947 and continues to grow

The earliest date of first listing shown in this dataset is 1 January 1947. That reflects the post-war start of the modern statutory listing system in England. Since then, new buildings and sites have continued to be added, while some existing entries have also been amended over time.

Listed buildings are added to the National Heritage List at different times. The table below shows how many buildings were first listed in each decade, grouped by grade, so you can see when most heritage protection took place.

Most listed buildings in England were first added during the late 20th century, particularly in the 1980s, when large-scale surveys and heritage reviews were carried out. As expected, Grade II buildings make up the vast majority of listings in every decade, reflecting their broader definition of “special interest”. Overall, the dataset spans listings from 1947 through to the 2026, showing how the National Heritage List for England has continued to expand over time.

Explore Listed Buildings in England

Use the interactive table below to explore listed buildings in England more efficiently. You can filter the entries by grade to view only Grade I, Grade II*, or Grade II buildings, and you can also filter by local authority district (LAD) to narrow the results to a specific area. The search field allows you to look up entries by name. To open the official record, click the NHLE list entry number, which links directly to the building’s profile page on the National Heritage List for England. To view the location on a map, click the map icon before the LAD name to open it in Google Maps. The Date column shows when the building was first listed. For entries with a recorded amendment, the most recent amendment date is displayed after the entry name in square brackets.

Select a LAD : (not specify) Adur Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Babergh Barking and Dagenham Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Bexley Birmingham Blaby Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bolsover Bolton Boston Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Bracknell Forest Bradford Braintree Breckland Brent Brentwood Brighton and Hove Bristol, City of Broadland Bromley Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Calderdale Cambridge Camden Cannock Chase Canterbury Castle Point Central Bedfordshire Charnwood Chelmsford Cheltenham Cherwell Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London Colchester Cornwall Cotswold County Durham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumberland Dacorum Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Dales Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Ealing East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Riding of Yorkshire East Staffordshire East Suffolk Eastbourne Eastleigh Elmbridge Enfield Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fareham Fenland Folkestone and Hythe Forest of Dean Fylde Gateshead Gedling Gloucester Gosport Gravesham Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halton Hammersmith and Fulham Harborough Haringey Harlow Harrow Hart Hartlepool Hastings Havant Havering Herefordshire, County of Hertsmere High Peak Hillingdon Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Hounslow Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Isle of Wight Isles of Scilly Islington Kensington and Chelsea King's Lynn and West Norfolk Kingston upon Hull, City of Kingston upon Thames Kirklees Knowsley Lambeth Lancaster Leeds Leicester Lewes Lewisham Lichfield Lincoln Liverpool Luton Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Manchester Mansfield Medway Melton Merton Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Mole Valley New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle-under-Lyme Newham North Devon North East Derbyshire North East Lincolnshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Lincolnshire North Norfolk North Northamptonshire North Somerset North Tyneside North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire North Yorkshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oldham Oxford Pendle Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Redbridge Redcar and Cleveland Redditch Reigate and Banstead Ribble Valley Richmond upon Thames Rochdale Rochford Rossendale Rother Rotherham Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Rutland Salford Sandwell Sefton Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Gloucestershire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Norfolk South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Staffordshire South Tyneside Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spelthorne St Albans St. Helens Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Sunderland Surrey Heath Sutton Swale Swindon Tameside Tamworth Tandridge Teignbridge Telford and Wrekin Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Torridge Tower Hamlets Trafford Tunbridge Wells Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Wakefield Walsall Waltham Forest Wandsworth Warrington Warwick Watford Waverley Wealden Welwyn Hatfield West Berkshire West Devon West Lancashire West Lindsey West Northamptonshire West Oxfordshire West Suffolk Westminster Westmorland and Furness Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor and Maidenhead Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wyre Wyre Forest York OR Grade : (not specify) I II* II to filter the data table.

Data Source and Methodology

The information on this page is based on data from the National Heritage List for England (NHLE), the official public register of England’s listed buildings and other designated heritage assets. The NHLE is maintained by Historic England and provides the authoritative reference for list entries, including list entry numbers, names, grades, and listing dates. For users who want full official details, the direct NHLE link in the table is the best place to continue their search.

The local authority district information shown on this page is not taken directly from the displayed entry title. Instead, it has been identified from the Easting and Northing values in the downloaded dataset. This helps place each entry within a local authority district for filtering and browsing purposes. However, users should note that a building or site may lie close to a boundary, and in some cases the asset itself may extend across the boundary of more than one authority.

The Google Maps links are also generated from the location data. They are created by converting the recorded Easting and Northing coordinates into latitude and longitude, then using those coordinates to form a Google Maps link. This makes it easier to jump quickly from the table to a map view, but the mapped point should be treated as a helpful location reference rather than a definitive statement of the full legal extent of the listed site.

For research, planning, or formal heritage matters, it is always sensible to check the official NHLE entry alongside any map view. The NHLE remains the primary source for understanding the designation, description, and status of each listed building in England.