IChurch · listed 1980Church of St AndrewPhoto: Neil Atterby · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: David Robinson · CC BY-SA 2.0DHistory Grade
History of Newton Aycliffe · Historic England
10 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Newton Aycliffe’s built-up area, 3.9 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 8 of Newton Aycliffe’s listed buildings. 0.9% of its homes were built before 1919. Newton Aycliffe grades D for history: #42 of 52 in County Durham.
Listed buildings
10
3.9 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
0.9%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Newton Aycliffe
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Newton Aycliffe’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 19neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
10 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*8 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 Newton Aycliffe
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 Grade II* listed building in Newton Aycliffe
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
Public · listed 1980Locomotion One Public House And East PlatformOn the list as The former Stockton and Darlington Railway's Heighington and Aycliffe Railway Station and attached workers' housing
Grade II
8 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 8 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 1.1% of Newton Aycliffe
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Aycliffe Village 198111 ha
11 hain conservation areas, of 983 ha inside the built-up area.
8 of the 10 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 Newton Aycliffe’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 6
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1980, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 6 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Newton Aycliffe grades D for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (13 points, 5 per 10,000 residents)More than 25% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (0.9%)More than 1% 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
0.9% of Newton Aycliffe’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
0.8%
Before 1900
0.1%
1900–18
0.1%
1919–29
0.4%
1930s
14%
1945–54
22%
1955–64
14%
1965–72
16%
1973–82
13%
1983–92
7%
1993–99
4.6%
2000–08
2.4%
2009–15
5.3%
2016–25
Newton AycliffeEngland & Wales
0.8% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 22% 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 (14 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Newton Aycliffe has the 87th most Grade I buildings of 386 towns its size
Places of 15,000–41,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Newton Aycliffe1
#339 of 386for listed buildings per resident (4 per 10,000). Lewes, Stamford and Saffron Walden lead.
86 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Newton Aycliffe
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Aycliffe | 25,760 | 10 | 1 | D |
| School Aycliffe | 1,590 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Heighington | 1,548 | 44 | 1 | A− |
| Chilton | 4,693 | 1 | 0 | C− |
| Shildon | 9,650 | 23 | 0 | B+ |
| Coundon and Leeholme | 2,522 | 2 | 0 | C+ |
| Ferryhill | 8,857 | 11 | 0 | B− |
| Bishop Auckland | 23,359 | 92 | 9 | A− |
In brief
Newton Aycliffe in brief
The official list counts 10 listed buildings in Newton Aycliffe, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Andrew. Only 86 of the 386 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1981.
Its homes are mostly newer: 0.9% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1986: 6 of 10. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Danny Hooper (1893) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Newton Aycliffe’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Newton Aycliffe?
Historic England lists 10 buildings inside Newton Aycliffe’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 8 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Newton Aycliffe?
One: Church of St Andrew.
How many conservation areas are there in Newton Aycliffe?
1, covering about 11 hectares of the town. The largest is Aycliffe Village.
When were Newton Aycliffe’s buildings listed?
The first in 1980; the most, 6, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Newton Aycliffe?
0.9% of homes were built before 1919 and 1.4% 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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