33 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

Grange over Sands Railway StationGrade II listedKiln at Sd 4082 7826 to the East of Hillside Cottage and to the South of SandyfieldGrade II listedClock TowerGrade II listedCouncil Offices Victoria Hall Including Attached Offices and RestaurantGrade II listedChurch of St PaulGrade II listed+6See all photos

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c. 1890

c. 1890

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c. 1910

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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.

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.

The first 3 entries were listed in 1950. 27 came in 1975, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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.

22% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 12% 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 (35 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

More of Grange-over-Sands’s homes are old than in most places: 27% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 33 listed buildings, including Netherwood Hotel. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1991. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1975: 27 of 33. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Lionel Palairet (1870) and Richard Palairet (1871) were born here before 1900.