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History of Mickleton · Historic England

Mickleton: 73% of homes built before 1919

The typical town has 15%: Mickleton has 5 times the share. Historic England lists 12 buildings inside Mickleton’s built-up area, 309 for every 10,000 residents.

Listed buildings
12
309 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
73%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Mickleton’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.

12 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*12 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

12 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 12 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 87% of Mickleton

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

Mickleton20 ha
20 hain conservation areas, of 23 ha inside the built-up area.

12 of the 12 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 Mickleton’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1986 · 12
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 12 entries were listed in 1986. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

73% of Mickleton’s homes were built before 1919

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

65%
Before 1900
8.3%
1900–18
0.9%
1919–29
5%
1930s
6.4%
1945–54
0.9%
1955–64
1.8%
1965–72
1.8%
1973–82
2.3%
1983–92
2.3%
1993–99
3.2%
2000–08
0.9%
2009–15
0.9%
2016–25
MickletonEngland & Wales

65% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1900–18, which added 8.3% 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 (1 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Mickleton

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Mickleton388120—
Startforth1,391221A
Barnard Castle5,7832276A
Cockfield1,35180B+
Stanhope1,575420A+
Staindrop1,339971A+
Wolsingham2,428400A
Evenwood1,58700C
In brief

Mickleton in brief

Old houses are part of Mickleton’s character: 73% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 12 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. The big year was 1986, when 12 of the 12 went on the list.

Questions about Mickleton’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Mickleton?

Historic England lists 12 buildings inside Mickleton’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 12 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Mickleton?

1, covering about 20 hectares of the town. The largest is Mickleton.

When were Mickleton’s buildings listed?

The first in 1986; the most, 12, in 1986.

How old are the homes in Mickleton?

73% of homes were built before 1919 and 79% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Mickleton 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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