111 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St CrossGrade II* listedSessions HouseGrade II* listedKnutsford Town Council Offices (former prison governor’s house)Grade II listedThe Freemasons Arms Public HouseGrade II listedTower HouseGrade II listed+6See 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.

1905

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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).

King Street30 listed · 1 II*

Princess Street7 listed

Gaskell Avenue4 listed

Drury Lane3 listed

Of the 111 entries, 51 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 15 entries were listed in 1949, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 58 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

Tatton 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.

James Neild

Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet

Edmund Sharpe

John Payne

Evelyn Gleeson

Edward Peel

Tommy Barber

Lucy Morton

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Lucy Morton1898–1980 · British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist (1898-1980)

Edmund Sharpe1809–1877 · English architect and engineer (1809-1877)

Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet1788–1873 · British doctor

Evelyn Gleeson1855–1944 · English embroidery, carpet, and tapestry designer

James Neild1744–1814 · British prison reformer

Tommy Barber1894–1936 · English golf player

JP

John Payne1828–1887 · English cricketer (1828-1887)

EP

Edward Peel1884–1961 · British big-game fisherman and businessman

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

Measured per resident, Knutsford has more listed heritage than 79% of UK towns. In all there are 111 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Brook Street Chapel. Only 110 of the 580 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. King Street alone has 30 listed buildings.

A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 70% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 8 people born here before 1900, the best known include Lucy Morton (1898), Edmund Sharpe (1809) and Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet (1788). The rest is about typical: 13% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.