IChurch · listed 1951St Collen's ChurchOn the list as St.Collen's Parish ChurchPhoto: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal · Photo: Adrian Pingstone · Public domainA+History Grade
History of Llangollen · Cadw
Llangollen is home to a World Heritage Site: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
In Llangollen, 36% of homes date from before 1919. Cadw lists 170 buildings inside Llangollen’s built-up area, 558 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings and 7 old views of the town. Llangollen grades A+ for history: #1 of 39 in Clwyd.
Listed buildings
170
558 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
2
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
36%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Llangollen in 15 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
St.Collen's Parish ChurchGrade I listed
Plas NewyddGrade II* listed
Gales Wine BarGrade II listed
Royal HotelGrade II listed
Town HallGrade II listed+10See 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.
Through time
Llangollen from 1795 to 1905
7 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
c. 1795
c. 1818
c. 1844
c. 1890
c. 1890
c. 1890
1905Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where Llangollen’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monumentPark or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
170 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*168 Grade II
Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Llangollen
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 1.6% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Llangollen
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*House · listed 1951Plas NewyddPhoto: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Historic streets
Regent Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Regent Street13 listed
Church Street12 listed
Bridge Street8 listed
Abbey Square4 listed
Chapel Street Square4 listed
Cross Lane3 listed
Hall Street3 listed
Of the 170 entries, 49 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
The largest group of Llangollen’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas84
Inns, shops & warehouses55
Churches, chapels & priories10
Walls, gates & bridges9
Public & civic buildings7
Street furniture3
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
84 entries (49%) are houses, terraces and villas. 10 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
Buildings are sorted by Cadw’s broad class for each building, else by words in its name; an entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
168 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.
The first 150 of 168 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
'Up' Platform Building to W Llangollen Railway Station(including the Arched Entry to the right)Armstrong TowersArnon CottageAvery'sBirch VillaBishop TrevorBlue Bay LaunderetteBryn-DwrBull Inn PH (including Caesar Hughes)Cambrian HotelCanal Bridge (no.46 at Penddol)Canal MuseumCegin CollenCeiriosCerrigCherrytree CottageCherrytree FarmhouseChester High Cross Stem in the grounds of Plas NewyddChurch HouseChurchyard Wall to N.of st. Collen's Parish Church, Including Gated EntryCilmedw CottagesColmedw CottagesCottage Tea RoomsCroes-y-BeddauD.Dulson & SonsDairy House at Plas NewyddDee BankDee CottageDee MillDee VillaDovecote in the grounds of Plas NewyddDown Platform Building to W of Llangollen Station Building Railway StationEctarc (Former Bedyddwyr Chapel)Embankment Wall to Railway (including below Station)Fair View (including outbuilding Range to right)Font in the grounds of Plas NewyddFormer Barn at Cherrytree FarmFormer Coach House in the grounds of Plas NewyddFormer Pottery WorkshopFormer Rehoboth ChapelFron DegGabriel'sGales Wine BarGalnrafon Evangelical ChurchGated Driveway Entrance to Llangollen Railway StationGood Shed at the Llangollen Railway Station Goods YardGreen LodgeGreen VillaGwunn Davies, ButchersHand HotelHenblasHighcroftJ & C Burnetts Spinnaker RestaurantLamp Standard (at the Y junction of Green Lane and Abbey Road)Large outbuilding to rear of Min-NantLaurel CottageLlangollen Hide & Skin Co. Ltd.Llangollen Methodist ChurchLlwyn AeronMaesmawr FarmhouseMaesmawr HouseMasonic HallMidland BankMin-NantMonument to the Ladies of Llangollen & their Housekeeper in the Churchyard of St. Collen's Parish ChNeuaddNewsagentsNo.1 (Sylvan)Old Town HallPen-y-BedwPen-y-Bedw CottagePen-y-MaesPenddolPenllyn Evangelical Free ChurchPillar Box on Pavement outside No.1Pillar Box on the corner with Chapel St & Berwyn StPillar Box on the pavement outside the Town HallPolice StationPont Felin BachePoplar HousePost Office (excluding Dalesford)Prince of Wales PHRailway Overbridge ,including ramped paths & revetments to W. of Llangollen StationRailway Station (Main Building & Footbridge)Reynard'sRoyal HotelSeventh HeavenSiambr WenSignal Box at Langollen railway StationSilver Palace TakeawaySundial in the churchyard of St. Collen's Parish ChurchSycamoreTelephone Call-box at the corner with Butler HillThe Hollies CottageThe NookThe Old ArmouryThe Old Bank (including the Lower Range entered from Capel StreetThe Ponsonby Arms PHThe Sun Inn PHThe Woolpack RestaurantToll GatehouseTown HallTregarthTregwernTy-IsaVillage PineWar MemorialWatkins & WilliamsWedding LimousinesWellhouse with Font in the grounds of Plas NewyddWelsh CraftsWelsh Crafts & GiftsWharf CottageWilliams & MorganWillow House (including Former Coach House to right)Wynnstay Arms PHY Bryn1 Abbey Square1 Chapel Street Square10 Bridge Street10 Regent Street12 Bridge Street12 Regent Street14 Bridge Street14 Regent Street16 Bridge Street16 Regent Street1818 Regent Street19 Bridge Street2 Abbey Square2 Chapel Street Square21 Bridge Street21 Hall Street23 Bridge Street23 Hall Street24 Bridge Street25 Church Street25 Hall Street26 Regent Street28 Church Street28 Regent Street3 Abbey Road3 Abbey Square3 Chapel Street Square30 Church Street31 Church Street32 Church Street34 Church Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 13% of Llangollen
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Llangollen Town 198518 ha
18 hain conservation areas, of 132 ha inside the built-up area.
135 of the 170 listed buildings stand in one.
Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
How the list grew
More than half of Llangollen’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1989
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1989 · 165
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 3 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 165 came in 1989. 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
| Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and CanalUNESCO World Heritage Site, partly or wholly inside the town |
2 scheduled monuments
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Welsh Government (Cadw).
Llangollen BridgeMedieval; Bridge
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and CanalPost Medieval/Modern; Aqueduct
1 registered park or garden
Plas Newydd, LlangollenGrade II* · Informal romantic garden; formal garden
History Grade
Llangollen grades A+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (179 points, 587 per 10,000 residents)More than 95% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (36%)More than 90% 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
36% of Llangollen’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
31%
Before 1900
4.3%
1900–18
0.9%
1919–29
3%
1930s
14%
1945–54
3.9%
1955–64
6.3%
1965–72
5.5%
1973–82
5.6%
1983–92
6.8%
1993–99
11%
2000–08
0.5%
2009–15
6.9%
2016–25
LlangollenEngland & Wales
31% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 14% 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.
Born here
3 notable people born in Llangollen before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
John Roberts
William Roberts
Dora Herbert Jones
18501875190019251950
DJ
Dora Herbert Jones1890–1974 · Singer and administrator (1890-1974)
JR
John Roberts1857–1900 · Association football player
WR
William Roberts1859– · Welsh footballer of the 1870s and 1880s
Everyone born in Llangollen → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Llangollen has the 95th most Grade I buildings of 1,212 towns its size
Places of 2,000–5,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Llangollen1
#23 of 1,212for listed buildings per resident (558 per 10,000). Painswick, Sandwich and Chipping Campden lead.
94 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Llangollen
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llangollen | 3,048 | 170 | 1 | A+ |
| Trevor | 1,397 | 8 | 0 | B |
| Acrefair and Cefn-mawr | 6,905 | 8 | 2 | B− |
| Chirk | 3,930 | 29 | 1 | B |
| Rhosllannerchrugog | 12,789 | 12 | 0 | C+ |
| Ruabon | 3,414 | 40 | 1 | A− |
| Weston Rhyn | 1,381 | 5 | 0 | C− |
| Coedpoeth | 4,738 | 4 | 0 | C+ |
In brief
Llangollen in brief
Llangollen holds part of a World Heritage Site, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal. In all there are 170 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 95% of UK towns. Its housing is old: 36% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Only 94 of the 1,212 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On Regent Street alone there are 13 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1985. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Questions about Llangollen’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Llangollen?
Cadw lists 170 buildings inside Llangollen’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 168 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Llangollen?
One: St.Collen's Parish Church.
Which street in Llangollen has the most listed buildings?
Regent Street (13), Church Street (12) and Bridge Street (8) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Llangollen?
Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Llangollen Bridge and Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal.
Is Llangollen a World Heritage Site?
Llangollen is home to part or all of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal, inscribed by UNESCO.
How many conservation areas are there in Llangollen?
1, covering about 18 hectares of the town. The largest is Llangollen Town.
When were Llangollen’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 165, in 1989.
Are there old photos of Llangollen?
Yes: 7 public-domain photos and postcards from 1795 to 1905, all on this page.
Who was born in Llangollen?
Among people born before 1900: Dora Herbert Jones (1890), John Roberts (1857) and William Roberts (1859).
How old are the homes in Llangollen?
36% of homes were built before 1919 and 39% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and historic parks and gardens: Cadw, © Crown copyright, via DataMapWales.
Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, 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 · Cadw conservation areas via DataMapWales (October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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