Photo: Dave.Dunford · Public domainOld homes in Rainow: 46% built before 1919
For Rainow, that is 3 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Historic England lists 28 buildings inside Rainow’s built-up area, 452 for every 10,000 residents.
Where Rainow’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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.
Most of Rainow’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
18 entries (64%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories.
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.
28 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 28 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
3 conservation areas cover 100% of Rainow
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
The first, Rainow Village and Rainow Brookhouse, were designated in 1994; the newest, Rainow Brookhouse, in 1994. 26 of the 28 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.
More than half of Rainow’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 7 entries were listed in 1967. 20 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
46% of Rainow’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
46% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 18% 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 (3 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Rainow
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainow | 619 | 28 | 0 | — |
| Bollington | 7,236 | 43 | 0 | A− |
| Macclesfield | 54,352 | 225 | 0 | A− |
| Prestbury | 2,629 | 38 | 1 | B+ |
| Whaley Bridge | 4,618 | 16 | 0 | B+ |
| Poynton | 13,015 | 12 | 0 | D |
| Woodford | 2,241 | 10 | 0 | C |
| Disley | 3,891 | 41 | 0 | A− |
Rainow in brief
Old houses are part of Rainow’s character: 46% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 28 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1994. Most entries on the list, 64%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1983, when 20 of the 28 went on the list.
Questions about Rainow’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Rainow?
Historic England lists 28 buildings inside Rainow’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 28 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Rainow?
3, covering about 35 hectares of the town. The largest are No data available for publication by HE and Rainow Village.
When were Rainow’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 20, in 1983.
How old are the homes in Rainow?
46% of homes were built before 1919 and 53% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Rainow has no History Grade.
© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.
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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