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Minor road reaching New Brancepeth from the eastPhoto: Trevor Littlewood · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of New Brancepeth · Historic England

1 listed building

On the Historic England list, it stands inside New Brancepeth’s built-up area, 7.8 for every 10,000 residents. The one listed building in New Brancepeth is Grade II. 29% of its homes were built before 1919. New Brancepeth grades C for history.

Listed buildings
1
7.8 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
29%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where New Brancepeth’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.

1 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*1 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

1 Grade II listed building

Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.

All 1 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
History Grade

New Brancepeth grades C for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (1 points, 8 per 10,000 residents)More than 11% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (29%)More than 82% 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.

Homes by age

29% of New Brancepeth’s homes were built before 1919

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

15%
Before 1900
14%
1900–18
14%
1919–29
1%
1930s
10%
1945–54
0%
1955–64
15%
1965–72
1%
1973–82
4%
1983–92
0.8%
1993–99
16%
2000–08
4.5%
2009–15
4.2%
2016–25
New BrancepethEngland & Wales

15% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2000–08, which added 16% 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 New Brancepeth

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
New Brancepeth1,28010C
Ushaw Moor and Bearpark6,48330C
Brandon9,50830D
Langley Park4,03120C
Esh Winning3,87720C
Witton Gilbert2,525100C+
Durham50,50244740A−
Sacriston5,18610C−
In brief

New Brancepeth in brief

Old houses are part of New Brancepeth’s character: 29% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 1 listed building. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 11% of UK towns. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: its only entry went on the list in 2016.

Questions about New Brancepeth’s history

How many listed buildings are there in New Brancepeth?

Historic England lists 1 building inside New Brancepeth’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 1 Grade II.

How old are the homes in New Brancepeth?

29% of homes were built before 1919 and 44% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

© 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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