106 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St PeterGrade I listedTown HallGrade II* listedSalford MillGrade II listedFormer Albion HotelGrade II listedChapel HouseGrade II listed+3See all photos

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.

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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Of the 106 entries, 48 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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.

The first 10 entries were listed in 1950, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 84 came in 1975, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

World Heritage

1 registered park or garden

Congleton ParkGrade II

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.

Margaret Ward

John Whitehurst

Robert Hodgson

William Newton

George Solly

Harvey Whittaker

William Yates

Gerald Harrison

Arthur Usherwood

Hugh Moffat

Charlie Smethams

Fred Goodwin

Fred Potts

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John Whitehurst1713–1788 · British clockmaker (1713-1788)

Margaret Ward1550–1588 · English Catholic martyr (1550-1588)

GH

Gerald Harrison1883–1943 · Royal Navy admiral and cricketer (1883-1943)

Hugh Moffat1885–1952 · English footballer (1885-1952)

WY

William Yates1880–1967 · British racewalker

AU

Arthur Usherwood1884–1961 · English footballer (1884-1961)

FG

Fred Goodwin1888–1945 · English footballer (1888-1945)

RH

Robert Hodgson1773–1844 · Anglican priest; (1773-1844)

Everyone born in Congleton → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Congleton has 106 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Peter's Church. Only 81 of the 340 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On High Street alone there are 9 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it.

Of the whole list, 68% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 13 people born here before 1900, the best known include John Whitehurst (1713), Margaret Ward (1550) and Gerald Harrison (1883). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1975: 84 of 106. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 13% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.