9 listed buildings

Church of St GeorgeGrade II listedFormer Stanley Council ChambersGrade II listedChurch of St AndrewGrade II listedRoman Catholic Church of St JosephGrade II listed+1See all photos

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.

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).

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.

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.

11% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1900–18, which added 17% 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 (8 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Mary Field Garner

David Horsley

Thomas Bell

Tommy Barber

John Paxton

Bill Turner

Peter Goggins

William Maughan

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David Horsley1873–1933 · English-American film director (1873–1933)

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Thomas Bell1884–1951 · Association football player (1884-1951)

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Tommy Barber1888–1925 · English football player (1886-1925)

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Mary Field Garner1836–1943

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John Paxton1890– · English footballer (1890-?)

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Bill Turner1894–1970 · English footballer (1894-1970)

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Peter Goggins1894–1917 · British deserter

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William Maughan1894–1916 · English footballer (1894-1916)

Everyone born in Stanley → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Old houses are part of Stanley’s character: 29% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 9 listed buildings, including Imperial Hotel. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1994.

David Horsley (1873), Thomas Bell (1884) and Tommy Barber (1888) are among the 8 people born here before 1900. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 21% of UK towns. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1987 and 2016.