Photo: Robert Graham · CC BY-SA 2.02 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Shadforth’s built-up area, 74 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Shadforth is Grade II. 19% of its homes were built before 1919.
Where Shadforth’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.
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.
2 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 2 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 76% of Shadforth
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
2 of the 2 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.
Listed buildings in the places around Shadforth
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shadforth | 270 | 2 | 0 | — |
| Thornley | 2,543 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Sherburn | 2,796 | 1 | 0 | D− |
| High Pittington | 1,147 | 6 | 1 | B− |
| Haswell | 1,185 | 1 | 0 | D |
| Wheatley Hill | 3,148 | 1 | 0 | D− |
| Bowburn | 4,843 | 0 | 0 | D |
| High Shincliffe | 1,045 | 0 | 0 | D |
Shadforth in brief
The official list counts 2 listed buildings in Shadforth. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: all its entries went on the list in 1988; and 19% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Shadforth’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Shadforth?
Historic England lists 2 buildings inside Shadforth’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 2 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Shadforth?
1, covering about 16 hectares of the town. The largest is Shadforth.
How old are the homes in Shadforth?
19% of homes were built before 1919 and 69% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Shadforth 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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