House · listed 1967Swan Farmhouse
Photo: John Naisbitt · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Cranage · Historic England
4 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Cranage’s built-up area, 126 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 3 of Cranage’s listed buildings. 9% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
4
126 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
9%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Cranage’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
4 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*3 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 II*
The Grade II* listed building in Cranage
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
3 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 3 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Cranage
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 HE21 ha
21 hain conservation areas, of 21 ha inside the built-up area.
4 of the 4 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.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
World Heritage
| Jodrell Bank ObservatoryUNESCO World Heritage Site: the town touches its mapped area, which can include a buffer zone |
Homes by age
9% of Cranage’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
8.1%
Before 1900
0.7%
1900–18
0.7%
1919–29
11%
1930s
5.2%
1945–54
3%
1955–64
32%
1965–72
3.7%
1973–82
3%
1983–92
17%
1993–99
5.9%
2000–08
3.7%
2009–15
5.9%
2016–25
CranageEngland & Wales
8.1% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 32% 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 (1 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Cranage
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranage | 318 | 4 | 0 | — |
| Holmes Chapel | 6,674 | 10 | 1 | C− |
| Goostrey | 1,952 | 6 | 0 | C |
| Middlewich | 14,428 | 36 | 0 | B− |
| Elworth | 7,646 | 4 | 0 | D |
| Sandbach | 11,289 | 58 | 2 | B |
| Wheelock | 2,155 | 4 | 0 | C− |
| Rudheath | 4,803 | 1 | 0 | D− |
In brief
Cranage in brief
The official list counts 4 listed buildings in Cranage. A conservation area protects part of it. Its homes are mostly newer: 9% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1967 and 1989.
Questions about Cranage’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Cranage?
Historic England lists 4 buildings inside Cranage’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 3 Grade II.
Is Cranage a World Heritage Site?
Part of Cranage lies within the area Historic England maps for Jodrell Bank Observatory, which can include a buffer zone around the site itself.
How many conservation areas are there in Cranage?
1, covering about 21 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
How old are the homes in Cranage?
9% of homes were built before 1919 and 21% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Cranage has no History Grade.
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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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