IChurch · listed 1967St Boniface's ChurchOn the list as The Church of St BonifacePhoto: Peter I. Vardy · Public domain
The Church of St Boniface · Photo: Peter I. Vardy · Public domainAHistory Grade
History of Bunbury · Historic England
27 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Bunbury’s built-up area, 214 for every 10,000 residents. 25 of Bunbury’s listed buildings are Grade II. 32% of its homes were built before 1919. Bunbury grades A for history.
Listed buildings
27
214 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
32%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Bunbury
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
The map
Where Bunbury’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
27 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*25 Grade II
Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Bunbury
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Bunbury
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Church · listed 1967The Chantry HousePhoto: Stephen Charles · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Bunbury’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas15
Churches, chapels & priories6
Public & civic buildings2
Inns, shops & warehouses2
Walls, gates & bridges2
15 entries (56%) are houses, terraces and villas. 6 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
25 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 25 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
BirchfieldBrantwoodBrook Farm CottageBrook FarmhouseBunbury Aldersey SchoolBunbury Cottage Tudor CottageBunbury MillBunbury MillhouseBunbury SchoolChapel CottageChurch Bank CottageChurch Cottage Rose Cottage the Crest Trelawn Widow's CottageChurch FarmhouseDolphin CottageGravestone in St Boniface's Churchyard 5 Metres to EastLittle OrchardNorth Gates to St Boniface's ChurchyardOak CottageRowton CottageSundial in St Boniface's Churchyard 10 Metres to SouthTalbarn (Part to South)The Dysart Arms Public HouseThe Image HouseThe StoresWest Gates to St Boniface's Churchyard
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 100% of Bunbury
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
No data available for publication by HE73 ha
No data available for publication by HE2 ha
75 hain conservation areas, of 75 ha inside the built-up area.
27 of the 27 listed buildings stand in one.
Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
How the list grew
12 of Bunbury’s 27 listed buildings were added in 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 121967 · 10
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The first 10 entries were listed in 1967, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 12 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Bunbury grades A for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (30 points, 238 per 10,000 residents)More than 76% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (32%)More than 87% of UK towns
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Homes by age
32% of Bunbury’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
30%
Before 1900
1.8%
1900–18
1%
1919–29
3.7%
1930s
7.3%
1945–54
2.8%
1955–64
7.3%
1965–72
10%
1973–82
3.7%
1983–92
6.5%
1993–99
5.5%
2000–08
5.5%
2009–15
15%
2016–25
BunburyEngland & Wales
30% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 15% of today’s homes.
Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Bunbury has the 88th most Grade I buildings of 1,908 towns its size
Places of 1,000–2,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Bunbury1
#440 of 1,908for listed buildings per resident (214 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.
87 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bunbury
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bunbury | 1,259 | 27 | 1 | A |
| Tarporley | 3,212 | 31 | 0 | B+ |
| Tattenhall | 2,296 | 19 | 0 | A− |
| Nantwich | 18,741 | 129 | 3 | A− |
| Kelsall | 2,997 | 6 | 0 | C |
| Tarvin | 2,744 | 23 | 1 | B+ |
| Winsford | 32,522 | 18 | 0 | C− |
| Willaston (Cheshire East) | 3,653 | 2 | 0 | C− |
In brief
Bunbury in brief
Old houses are part of Bunbury’s character: 32% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 27 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 76% of UK towns. Only 87 of the 1,908 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.
Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas. Most entries on the list, 56%, are houses, terraces and villas. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley (1850) and James Cardwell Gardner (1864) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Bunbury’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bunbury?
Historic England lists 27 buildings inside Bunbury’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 25 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Bunbury?
One: The Church of St Boniface.
How many conservation areas are there in Bunbury?
2, covering about 75 hectares of the town. The largest are No data available for publication by HE and No data available for publication by HE.
When were Bunbury’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 12, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Bunbury?
32% of homes were built before 1919 and 37% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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