Egremont Castle · Photo: Paul Lakin · CC BY 3.016 listed buildings
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Egremont’s built-up area, 28 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 3 of its listed buildings. 15% of its homes were built before 1919. Egremont grades C+ for history: #21 of 23 in Cumbria.
Landmarks of Egremont
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Church of St Mary and St MichaelGrade II listed
17, Bridge EndGrade II listed
Town HallGrade 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.
Where Egremont’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
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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).
16 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 16 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 4.2% of Egremont
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
13 of the 16 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.
More than half of Egremont’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 1 entry was listed in 1967. 14 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
Egremont grades C+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
Listed buildings in the places around Egremont
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egremont | 5,791 | 16 | 0 | C+ |
| St Bees | 1,187 | 33 | 4 | A |
| Cleator Moor | 6,671 | 14 | 0 | B |
| Whitehaven | 22,952 | 170 | 1 | A− |
| Frizington | 1,754 | 0 | 0 | C− |
| Moresby Parks | 1,180 | 0 | 0 | C− |
| Seascale | 1,708 | 3 | 0 | C |
| Distington | 1,375 | 4 | 0 | C |
Egremont in brief
The official list counts 16 listed buildings in Egremont, including Egremont Castle. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1986. The big year was 1984, when 14 of the 16 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Lawrence Arthur Colley Panton (1894) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Egremont’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Egremont?
Historic England lists 16 buildings inside Egremont’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 16 Grade II.
Are there scheduled monuments in Egremont?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Egremont Castle.
How many conservation areas are there in Egremont?
1, covering about 7 hectares of the town. The largest is Egremont.
When were Egremont’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 14, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Egremont?
15% of homes were built before 1919 and 26% 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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