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History of Hamsterley Mill · Historic England

2 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Hamsterley Mill’s built-up area, 64 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Hamsterley Mill is Grade II. 26% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
2
64 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
26%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Hamsterley Mill’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.

2 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*2 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.

Grade II

2 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 2 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 4.1% of Hamsterley Mill

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Lintzford 19762 ha
2 hain conservation areas, of 36 ha inside the built-up area.

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.

Homes by age

26% of Hamsterley Mill’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

20%
Before 1900
5.4%
1900–18
1.4%
1919–29
6.8%
1930s
12%
1945–54
5.4%
1955–64
3.4%
1965–72
12%
1973–82
2%
1983–92
7.5%
1993–99
20%
2000–08
3.4%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
Hamsterley MillEngland & Wales

20% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2000–08, which added 20% 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 Hamsterley Mill

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Hamsterley Mill31320—
Blackhall Mill1,52810C−
Dipton2,65310C−
Burnopfield2,99870C
Chopwell2,53010C
Medomsley1,21651B
Rowlands Gill5,25420C
High Spen1,93300C−
In brief

Hamsterley Mill in brief

Old houses are part of Hamsterley Mill’s character: 26% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 2 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976. Beyond that, the list grew between 1980 and 1987.

Questions about Hamsterley Mill’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Hamsterley Mill?

Historic England lists 2 buildings inside Hamsterley Mill’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 2 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Hamsterley Mill?

1, covering about 2 hectares of the town. The largest is Lintzford.

How old are the homes in Hamsterley Mill?

26% of homes were built before 1919 and 33% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Hamsterley Mill 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.