IChurch · listed 1968Church of St EdmundPhoto: Stephen Craven · CC BY-SA 2.0
Hardwick Park · Photo: SequenceDancer · CC BY-SA 3.0B−History Grade
History of Sedgefield · Historic England
26 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Sedgefield’s built-up area, 52 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 24 of Sedgefield’s listed buildings. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. 12% of its homes were built before 1919. Sedgefield grades B− for history: #11 of 52 in County Durham.
Listed buildings
26
52 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
2 registered parks & gardens
Homes built before 1919
12%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Sedgefield in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St EdmundGrade I listed
Manor HouseGrade II* listed
Hardwick Arms HotelGrade II listed
Nss NewsagentsGrade II listed
Hope InnGrade II listed+1See 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.
The map
Where Sedgefield’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
26 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*24 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 I
The Grade I listed building in Sedgefield
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 Sedgefield
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*House · listed 1952The Manor HouseOn the list as Manor HousePhoto: Stephen Craven · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Sedgefield’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas13
Inns, shops & warehouses4
Walls, gates & bridges4
Churches, chapels & priories3
Public & civic buildings2
13 entries (50%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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
24 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 24 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barrington LodgeBlack Lion Public House and Former Stable WingCeddesfeld HallChurch of St Luke, Winterton HospitalChurchyard Wall, 40 Metres West of Church of St Edmund Churchyard Wall, 50 Metres South West of Church of St EdmundCrosshill HotelElm HouseGate Piers, 10 Metres East of Manor HouseGate Piers, 30 Metres North of Ceddesfeld HallHardwick Arms HotelHope InnJoan's Fruit and Freezer Centre and Kensington HouseLych Gate, 45 Metres West of Church of St EdmundMonument to Frederick Hardwicke, 15 Metres North of West Tower of Church of St. EdmundNss NewsagentsSedgefield HouseShute HouseThe White HouseWar Memorial, 40 Metres West of Church of St Edmund10, Rectory Row10, West End3 and 5, North End3, The Square4, Rectory Row
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 12% of Sedgefield
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Sedgefield 197118 ha
Hardwick Park 19933 ha
21 hain conservation areas, of 178 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Sedgefield, was designated in 1971; the newest, Hardwick Park, in 1993. 25 of the 26 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 Sedgefield’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 17
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The first 4 entries were listed in 1952. 17 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 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.
2 registered parks and gardens
Ceddesfeld Hall GardensGrade II
Hardwick ParkGrade II*
History Grade
Sedgefield 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 (32 points, 64 per 10,000 residents)More than 62% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (12%)More than 31% 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.
Towns its size
Sedgefield has the 82nd most Grade I buildings of 947 towns its size
Places of 3,000–8,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Sedgefield1
#365 of 947for listed buildings per resident (52 per 10,000). Sandwich, Tenby and Arundel lead.
81 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Sedgefield
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sedgefield | 4,979 | 26 | 1 | B− |
| Fishburn | 2,387 | 0 | 0 | D |
| Bishop Middleham | 1,136 | 13 | 0 | B+ |
| Trimdon | 2,835 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Stillington | 1,407 | 2 | 0 | C− |
| Cornforth | 2,424 | 4 | 0 | C |
| Trimdon Grange | 1,233 | 0 | 0 | C− |
| Chilton | 4,693 | 1 | 0 | C− |
In brief
Sedgefield in brief
The official list counts 26 listed buildings in Sedgefield, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Edmund. Only 81 of the 947 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1971.
Most entries on the list, 50%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1986, when 17 of the 26 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Thomas H. McIntosh (1879) and Joe Simpson (1856) were born here before 1900; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Sedgefield’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Sedgefield?
Historic England lists 26 buildings inside Sedgefield’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 24 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Sedgefield?
One: Church of St Edmund.
How many conservation areas are there in Sedgefield?
2, covering about 21 hectares of the town. The largest are Sedgefield and Hardwick Park.
When were Sedgefield’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 17, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Sedgefield?
12% of homes were built before 1919 and 20% 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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