IChurch · listed 1949St Hilda's ChurchOn the list as Church of St HildaPhoto: Stephen Craven · CC BY-SA 2.0
Heugh coastal artillery battery immediately north west of Heugh Lighthouse · Photo: Paul Buckingham · CC BY-SA 2.0B−History Grade
History of Hartlepool · Historic England
117 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Hartlepool’s built-up area, 13 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 3 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings and 4 old views of the town. 15% of its homes were built before 1919. Hartlepool grades B− for history: #9 of 52 in County Durham.
Listed buildings
117
13 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
3
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
3
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
15%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Hartlepool in 14 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.
Church of St HildaGrade I listed
Town Wall and Sandwell GateScheduled monument
Royal Hotel Royal Public HouseGrade II listed
Town HallGrade II listed
Throston Engine House and Wall AdjoiningGrade II listed+9See 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
Hartlepool from 1702 to 1900
An old map and 4 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1702
c. 1816
c. 1816
c. 1890
1900Public 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 Hartlepool’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monumentPark or garden
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
7 of 56neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 87% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
117 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I3 Grade II*113 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 Hartlepool
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 3 Grade II* listed buildings in Hartlepool
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 2 are photographed.
II*Church · listed 1982Christ ChurchPhoto: Richard Atkinson · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Church · listed 1950Church of All SaintsPhoto: George Ford · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1949Numbers 2 and 3 (Duke of Cleveland's House) and East Extensions
Historic streets
The Green 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.
The Green6 listed
Town Wall4 listed
South End3 listed
Of the 117 entries, 26 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
The largest group of Hartlepool’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas57
Walls, gates & bridges15
Public & civic buildings14
Churches, chapels & priories14
Memorials, crosses & tombs8
Inns, shops & warehouses7
Street furniture2
57 entries (49%) are houses, terraces and villas. 14 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
113 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 113 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Archway CottageArts and Crafts Block with Attached Covered PlaygroundsAthenaeum the AthenaeumBandstand Bandstand in Ward Jackson ParkBank ChambersBeechwood Highnam Jesmond Pangbourne Parkfield Parkside WrenwoodBollard at North East Corner of Stranton HotelBollard at South East Corner of Number 10 StrantonBorough Buildings and Borough HallBoundary Wall Approximately 8 Metres to East of Low Tunstall FrmhouseBoundary Wall Gate Piers and Steps to Rear (West) and Side (North) of Old Dock OfficesBoundary Wall Gates and Gate Piers Enclosing Wesley Methodist ChurchBoundary Wall Railings and Gate Enclosing South East and West Sides of Number 62Boundary Wall and Gate Piers 12 Metres to East of BriarmeadBoundary Wall and Gate Piers 3 Metres to East of St Francis CottageBriarmeadBus StationCarnegie Building and No. 72Church Square ChambersChurch of St Aidan Including Walls, Railings and GatesChurch of St JosephChurch of St MaryChurch of St OswaldChurch of St Paul and Attached Area Wall Railings and GatesChurch of the Holy TrinityChurchyard Boundary Wall and Gate Piers to Church of St HildaCleveland College of Art and Design, Former Central Library and Rear ExtensionCleveland College of Art and Design, Former Municipal BuildingsCleveland College of Art and Design, Old Registrar’S Office and Rear ExtensionClock Tower Clock Tower in Ward Jackson ParkCoach House and Stable to St Francis CottageDrinking Fountain 20 Metres to South East of Gray Art GalleryEast and West Lodges at Entrance to Tunstall Court and Attached Screen WallsFormer Church of St AndrewFormer Constitutional ClubFormer GPO Sorting OfficeFountain Fountain in Ward Jackson ParkGrand HotelGreystonesJesmond Road Primary School, Master's House, Play Shed and Surrounding WallK6 Telephone Kiosk 12 Metres South of Number 3K6 Telephone Kiosk 5 Metres East of Town HallLamp Standard to East of Wesley Methodist ChurchLion Sculpture and Pier 15 Metres to East of Lion BreweryLow Tunstall Farmhouse and Screen Wall AttachedMarine HotelMarket HotelMayfield HouseMeadowcroft MeadowsideMonument to Ralph Ward Jackson Approximately 34 Metres to North East of Christ ChurchMonument to Sir William Gray Approximately 20 Metres to South West of Christ ChurchMoor HouseNorth East Wing of St Hilda's HospitalNumber 3 and Adjoining WallOdeon CinemaOld Customs House and Adjoining WingsOld Dock Offices and Rear WingsPark Lodge Park Lodge at Entrance to Ward Jackson Park Park Lodge at South East Entrance to Ward Jackson ParkPark Tower (Former North Eastern Co-Operative Society Department Store)PiercliffeRemains of Town Wall Remains of Town Wall to South East Side of South CrescentRemains of Wayside CrossRockhurstRoyal Hotel Royal Public HouseSeaton Carew War MemorialSeaton Hall Hotel and Adjoining Wing to RightSeaton High LightSeaton Hotel and West ExtensionSebastopol GunSouth African War Memorial in Ward Jackson ParkSt Francis CottageStable Block 4 Metres to East of BriarmeadSteelworkers' War Memorial, approximately 15 metres to south west of South Durham Steelworks Social Club.Strathmore HouseThe Shades HotelThroston Engine House and Wall AdjoiningTown HallTunstall Hall FarmhouseUnion HouseUnited Reformed ChurchVictoria Buildings and 2 MiddlegateWar Memorial in Redheugh GardensWar Memorial in Victory SquareWar memorial outside St Oswald's Church, West HartlepoolWesley Methodist ChurchWilkinsons (Formerly Binns Department Store)Wilton Grange1-6, Regent Street1-7, Albion Terrace1-8, Regent Square11-13, The Green125 and 127, Park Road18, The Green19, The Green2, Green Terrace27 and 29, Middlegate33, Town Wall34, Town Wall35, Town Wall36 and 36A, Town Wall38 Church Street5 and 6, South End6, Scarborough Street62, Southgate7, South End7, The Green8, South End8, The Green8-12, Albion Terrace81-87, Raby Road9 10 and 11, Regent Square9, The Green9-21, Regent Street
Conservation areas
7 conservation areas cover 4.6% of Hartlepool
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Park 197945 ha
Headland 196928 ha
Grange 200424 ha
Seaton 196913 ha
Church 19847 ha
Stranton 20046 ha
Greatham 19741 ha
124 hain conservation areas, of 2,672 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Headland and Seaton, were designated in 1969; the newest, Stranton, in 2004. 90 of the 117 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 Hartlepool’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1985 · 751949 · 17
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 17 entries were listed in 1949, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 75 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 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.
3 scheduled monuments
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
1 registered park or garden
Ward Jackson ParkGrade II
History Grade
Hartlepool grades B− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (129 points, 15 per 10,000 residents)More than 58% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (15%)More than 44% 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.
Born here
36 notable people born in Hartlepool before 1900
The 20 best known on one timeline, earliest first.
Frederic Shields
Christopher Furness, 1st Baron Furness
James Clark
Joseph Isherwood
Agnes Stevenson
Francis William Doyle-Jones
Frank Henry Algernon Mason
Lionel Tertis
Alfred Morris
Beresford Horsley
John Hugill
Compton Mackenzie
Edward Mellanby
Bill Hastings
Philip Hope
Bobby Booth
Robert Coverdale
Arthur Swift
Nora Gordon
Matt Bell
1800182518501875190019251950
Compton Mackenzie1883–1972 · Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nationalist (188…
Lionel Tertis1876–1975 · British musician (1876–1975)
Edward Mellanby1884–1955 · Medical scientist, discoverer of vitamin C (1884–1955)
AS
Agnes Stevenson1873–1935 · British chess player
BB
Bobby Booth1890–1974 · Professional footballer (1890-?)
Frederic Shields1833–1911 · British artist, illustrator and designer (1833-1911)
Joseph Isherwood1870–1937 · British naval architect (1870–1937)
NG
Nora Gordon1893–1970 · British actress (1893-1970)
Everyone born in Hartlepool → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Hartlepool
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartlepool | 88,001 | 117 | 1 | B− |
| Blackhall Colliery | 4,577 | 1 | 0 | C− |
| Billingham | 33,917 | 10 | 1 | D |
| Wynyard | 4,040 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Horden | 6,805 | 4 | 0 | C |
| Wingate | 5,033 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Peterlee | 19,750 | 1 | 0 | D− |
| Trimdon Colliery | 1,788 | 0 | 0 | C− |
In brief
Hartlepool in brief
Hartlepool has 117 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Hilda's Church. Its older streets lie in 7 conservation areas, the first designated in 1969. Of the 36 people born here before 1900, the best known include Compton Mackenzie (1883), Lionel Tertis (1876) and Edward Mellanby (1884). The big year was 1985, when 75 of the 117 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 2); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 3 scheduled monuments.
Questions about Hartlepool’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Hartlepool?
Historic England lists 117 buildings inside Hartlepool’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 113 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Hartlepool?
One: Church of St Hilda.
Which street in Hartlepool has the most listed buildings?
The Green (6), Town Wall (4) and South End (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Hartlepool?
Yes, 3 scheduled monuments, including Heugh coastal artillery battery immediately north west of Heugh Lighthouse, Low Throston deserted medieval village and Town Wall and Sandwell Gate.
How many conservation areas are there in Hartlepool?
7, covering about 124 hectares of the town. The largest are Park and Headland.
When were Hartlepool’s buildings listed?
The first in 1949; the most, 75, in 1985.
Are there old photos of Hartlepool?
Yes: 4 public-domain photos and postcards from 1816 to 1900, and an old map from 1702, all on this page.
Who was born in Hartlepool?
Among people born before 1900: Compton Mackenzie (1883), Lionel Tertis (1876), Edward Mellanby (1884), Agnes Stevenson (1873) and Bobby Booth (1890).
How old are the homes in Hartlepool?
15% of homes were built before 1919 and 27% 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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