Photo: Christine Johnstone · CC BY-SA 2.0Cotherstone: 58% of homes built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Cotherstone has 4 times the share. Historic England lists 13 buildings inside Cotherstone’s built-up area, 235 for every 10,000 residents.
Where Cotherstone’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.
13 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 13 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 89% of Cotherstone
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
13 of the 13 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 Cotherstone’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 5 entries were listed in 1967. 8 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
58% of Cotherstone’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
48% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1900–18, which added 11% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Cotherstone
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cotherstone | 554 | 13 | 0 | — |
| Startforth | 1,391 | 22 | 1 | A |
| Barnard Castle | 5,783 | 227 | 6 | A |
| Staindrop | 1,339 | 97 | 1 | A+ |
| Cockfield | 1,351 | 8 | 0 | B+ |
| Evenwood | 1,587 | 0 | 0 | C |
| Gainford | 1,127 | 36 | 2 | A+ |
| Toft Hill and High Etherley | 1,865 | 5 | 0 | B− |
Cotherstone in brief
More of Cotherstone’s homes are old than in most places: 58% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 13 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1984. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1986: 8 of 13.
Questions about Cotherstone’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Cotherstone?
Historic England lists 13 buildings inside Cotherstone’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 13 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Cotherstone?
1, covering about 26 hectares of the town. The largest is Cotherstone.
When were Cotherstone’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 8, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Cotherstone?
58% of homes were built before 1919 and 63% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Cotherstone 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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