House · listed 1951The Rectory
Photo: marty bell · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Wolviston · Historic England
21 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Wolviston’s built-up area, 250 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 20 of Wolviston’s listed buildings. 6.3% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
21
250 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
6.3%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Wolviston’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
21 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*20 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*
The Grade II* listed building in Wolviston
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Wolviston’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas16
Churches, chapels & priories2
Public & civic buildings1
Walls, gates & bridges1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
16 entries (76%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories.
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
20 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 20 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Bradley Farm, 7, Durham RoadChurch of St PeterFarm Buildings to West and South of Number 1Garth End FarmhouseHall FarmhouseManor Farm HouseMethodist ChapelNorthern Grange Farmhouse and Number 44Outbuilding to North of Manor Farm HouseSundial House Farm and Dial HouseThe Green FarmhouseThe Londonderry AlmhousesWalls, Gate and Gate Piers to North and East of the RectoryWar MemorialWynyard Close1, Lax Terrace24, High Street46, Durham Road48, Durham Road48, High Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 46% of Wolviston
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Wolviston 197215 ha
15 hain conservation areas, of 33 ha inside the built-up area.
21 of the 21 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 Wolviston’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1985 · 131951 · 7
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 7 entries were listed in 1951. 13 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
6.3% of Wolviston’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
5.2%
Before 1900
1.1%
1900–18
0%
1919–29
0.5%
1930s
0.8%
1945–54
1.1%
1955–64
9%
1965–72
20%
1973–82
20%
1983–92
25%
1993–99
17%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
WolvistonEngland & Wales
5.2% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1993–99, which added 25% 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 Wolviston
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wolviston | 840 | 21 | 0 | — |
| Billingham | 33,917 | 10 | 1 | D |
| Wynyard | 4,040 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 84,824 | 188 | 2 | B |
| Stillington | 1,407 | 2 | 0 | C− |
| Hartlepool | 88,001 | 117 | 1 | B− |
| Thornaby-on-Tees | 23,352 | 7 | 0 | D |
| Middlesbrough | 148,232 | 107 | 3 | B− |
In brief
Wolviston in brief
Wolviston has 21 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1972. Of the whole list, 76% are houses, terraces and villas. Its homes are mostly newer: 6.3% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1985: 13 of 21.
Questions about Wolviston’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Wolviston?
Historic England lists 21 buildings inside Wolviston’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 20 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Wolviston?
1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is Wolviston.
When were Wolviston’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 13, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Wolviston?
6.3% of homes were built before 1919 and 6.8% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Wolviston has no History Grade.
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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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