IChurch · listed 1967St Luke's ChurchOn the list as Church of St LukePhoto: Peter I. Vardy · Public domain
Church of St Luke · Photo: Peter I. Vardy · Public domainC−History Grade
History of Holmes Chapel · Historic England
10 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Holmes Chapel’s built-up area, 15 for every 10,000 residents. 7 of Holmes Chapel’s listed buildings are Grade II. 4.9% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. Holmes Chapel grades C− for history: #35 of 46 in Cheshire.
Listed buildings
10
15 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
4.9%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Holmes Chapel in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
The Red LionGrade II* listed
Bridge FarmhouseGrade II listed
72, Macclesfield RoadGrade II listed
The Old Vicarage HotelGrade II listed
Cranage Church of England Primary SchoolGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos 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 Holmes Chapel’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 4neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
10 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I2 Grade II*7 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. 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).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Holmes Chapel
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 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Holmes Chapel
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed.
II*House · listed 1967The Red LionPhoto: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0
Public · listed 1967Cotton Hall
Grade II
7 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 7 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Holmes Chapel
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 HE229 ha
229 hain conservation areas, of 229 ha inside the built-up area.
10 of the 10 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
More than half of Holmes Chapel’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1967
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1967 · 6
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The first 6 entries were listed in 1967, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
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 |
History Grade
Holmes Chapel grades C− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (14 points, 21 per 10,000 residents)More than 38% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (4.9%)More than 9% 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
4.9% of Holmes Chapel’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
4.2%
Before 1900
0.6%
1900–18
0.6%
1919–29
4.8%
1930s
8%
1945–54
3.9%
1955–64
20%
1965–72
14%
1973–82
13%
1983–92
7.1%
1993–99
5.1%
2000–08
5.1%
2009–15
14%
2016–25
Holmes ChapelEngland & Wales
4.2% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 20% 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
Holmes Chapel has the 87th most Grade I buildings of 821 towns its size
Places of 4,000–11,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Holmes Chapel1
#518 of 821for listed buildings per resident (15 per 10,000). Sandwich, Tenby and Brecon lead.
86 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Holmes Chapel
In brief
Holmes Chapel in brief
Holmes Chapel has 10 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Luke's Church. Only 86 of the 821 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area protects part of it.
Its homes are mostly newer: 4.9% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1967, when 6 of the 10 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Philip Glazebrook (1880) and William Armitstead (1833) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Holmes Chapel’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Holmes Chapel?
Historic England lists 10 buildings inside Holmes Chapel’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 7 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Holmes Chapel?
One: Church of St Luke.
Is Holmes Chapel a World Heritage Site?
Part of Holmes Chapel 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 Holmes Chapel?
1, covering about 229 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Holmes Chapel’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 6, in 1967.
How old are the homes in Holmes Chapel?
4.9% of homes were built before 1919 and 10% 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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