221 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade I

Church of St WilfridGrade I listedBewsey Old HallGrade II* listedLumb Brook Bridge (An Aqueduct)Grade II listedThe Red Lion InnGrade II listedMonks Siding Signal BoxGrade II listed+13See 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.

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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).

Of the 221 entries, 54 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 14 entries were listed in 1949, 2 of the 4 Grade I buildings among them. 105 came in 1975, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 4 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

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 Bell

Anna Blackburne

Thomas Percival

John Drinkwater Bethune

Arthur Aikin

Lucy Aikin

William Wilson

William Gaskell

William Robinson

John Warrington Wood

Harriet Fisher Mole

Henry Woods

James Charles

Brigham Henry Roberts

Thomas Percy Draper

Elizabeth Dale

Frank Connah

Teddy Bullen

Francis Aubrey Shurrock

Herbert Womersley

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Arthur Aikin1771–1854 · British chemist, mineralogist, author (1771/73 - 1854)

Lucy Aikin1781–1864 · British feminist historian and poet (1781-1864)

Anna Blackburne1726–1793 · English naturalist and patroness of natural history (1726–1793)

FC

Frank Connah1884–1954 · Field hockey player

TP

Thomas Percival1740–1804 · British physician (1740-1804)

Brigham Henry Roberts1857–1933 · American Mormon; denied a seat as a member of United States Congress …

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William Wilson1799–1871 · English botanist and bryologist (1799-1871)

Harriet Fisher Mole1841–1912 · English socialist and women's trade union organizer

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

The official list counts 221 listed buildings in Warrington, 4 of them Grade I, including Warrington Town Hall. Eastern Outbuilding to Town Hall sits at the heart of it all, with 3 of the town’s Grade I buildings within 400 m. Bridge Street alone has 8 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 13 conservation areas, the first designated in 1972.

Of the whole list, 52% are houses, terraces and villas. Arthur Aikin (1771), Lucy Aikin (1781) and Anna Blackburne (1726) are among the 49 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, it has 4 Grade I buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 4); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 3 scheduled monuments.