IChurch · listed 1951Church of St CuthbertPhoto: Bill Henderson · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Theatre Auditorium, Stage and Fly-Tower at the Billingham Forum Leisure Complex · Photo: DTR · Public domainDHistory Grade
History of Billingham · Historic England
10 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Billingham’s built-up area, 2.9 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Billingham, 7 are Grade II. 1.3% of its homes were built before 1919. Billingham grades D for history: #41 of 52 in County Durham.
Listed buildings
10
2.9 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
1.3%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Billingham
Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Billingham’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 24neighbourhoods 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 Billingham
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 Billingham
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
House · listed 1992Phosphate Rock Silo Number 15 at Ici Works, Billingham
House · listed 1985St Cuthbert's Vicarage
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.
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 0.7% of Billingham
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Billingham Green 19719 ha
9 hain conservation areas, of 1,249 ha inside the built-up area.
8 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 Billingham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1985 · 6
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 6 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Billingham grades D 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, 4 per 10,000 residents)More than 25% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (1.3%)More than 2% 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
1.3% of Billingham’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
1%
Before 1900
0.3%
1900–18
15%
1919–29
8.8%
1930s
19%
1945–54
15%
1955–64
17%
1965–72
8.4%
1973–82
7%
1983–92
2.7%
1993–99
3%
2000–08
2%
2009–15
1%
2016–25
BillinghamEngland & Wales
1% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 19% 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.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Billingham
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billingham | 33,917 | 10 | 1 | D |
| Wynyard | 4,040 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 84,824 | 188 | 2 | B |
| Thornaby-on-Tees | 23,352 | 7 | 0 | D |
| Middlesbrough | 148,232 | 107 | 3 | B− |
| Stillington | 1,407 | 2 | 0 | C− |
| Hartlepool | 88,001 | 117 | 1 | B− |
| Eston | 29,625 | 24 | 0 | C− |
In brief
Billingham in brief
The official list counts 10 listed buildings in Billingham, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Cuthbert. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1971. Its homes are mostly newer: 1.3% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1985, when 6 of the 10 went on the list. The rest is about typical: it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Martin Barnaby Madden (1855) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Billingham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Billingham?
Historic England lists 10 buildings inside Billingham’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 7 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Billingham?
One: Church of St Cuthbert.
How many conservation areas are there in Billingham?
1, covering about 9 hectares of the town. The largest is Billingham Green.
When were Billingham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 6, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Billingham?
1.3% of homes were built before 1919 and 25% 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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