5 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

Central Methodist ChurchGrade II* listedWar Memorial, Piers and ChainGrade II listedChurch of Our Lady Immaculate and Saint CuthbertGrade II listed+1See 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.

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).

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.

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.

19% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 12% 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.

Jack Greenwell

Jack Alderson

Joseph Stones

George Jones

Billy Taylor

Fred Colling

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Jack Greenwell1884–1942 · English footballer and manager (1884-1942)

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Jack Alderson1891–1972 · Football player (1891-1972)

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Fred Colling1897–1973 · (1897-1973)

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Joseph Stones1892–1917 · British soldier

Billy Taylor1896–1986 · English footballer and cricketer (1896-1986)

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George Jones1895–1970 · English footballer (1895-1970)

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

More of Crook’s homes are old than in most places: 29% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 5 listed buildings, including Central Methodist Church. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1975.

Of the 6 people born here before 1900, the best known include Jack Greenwell (1884), Jack Alderson (1891) and Fred Colling (1897). For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 18% of UK towns. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and all its entries went on the list in 1987.