Crown Inn · Photo: The Carlisle Kid · CC BY-SA 2.052 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Maryport’s built-up area, 61 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. 33% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings and 3 old views of the town. Maryport grades A− for history: #7 of 23 in Cumbria.
Maryport in 9 photos and old views
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3, North QuayGrade II listed
Parish Church of St MaryGrade II listed
Phoenix TapGrade II listed
Station HotelGrade II listed
Middle TapGrade II listed+4See 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.
Maryport from 1905 to 1912
3 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
c. 1905
1912
Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
Where Maryport’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
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. 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).
High Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Of the 52 entries, 30 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
Most of Maryport’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
39 entries (75%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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.
52 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 52 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 14% of Maryport
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
46 of the 52 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 Maryport’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1977
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 3 entries were listed in 1950. 38 came in 1977, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 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.
World Heritage
| Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Hadrian's Wall)UNESCO World Heritage Site: the town touches its mapped area, which can include a buffer zone |
2 scheduled monuments
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
Maryport grades A− 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.
33% of Maryport’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
32% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 18% 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 (99 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
10 notable people born in Maryport before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in Maryport → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Listed buildings in the places around Maryport
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryport | 8,526 | 52 | 0 | A− |
| Dearham | 2,344 | 1 | 1 | C+ |
| Flimby | 1,716 | 3 | 0 | B− |
| Great Broughton and Little Broughton | 1,763 | 3 | 0 | C |
| Seaton | 5,051 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Stainburn | 2,120 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Workington | 21,276 | 46 | 0 | A− |
| Cockermouth | 8,859 | 101 | 6 | A− |
Maryport in brief
Old houses are part of Maryport’s character: 33% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 52 listed buildings, including Crown Inn. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1978. Of the whole list, 75% are houses, terraces and villas.
Thomas Henry Ismay (1837), Thomas Ashbridge (1890) and Thomas English (1820) are among the 10 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1977: 38 of 52. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Questions about Maryport’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Maryport?
Historic England lists 52 buildings inside Maryport’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 52 Grade II.
Which street in Maryport has the most listed buildings?
High Street (5), Eaglesfield Street (3) and Fleming Place (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Maryport?
Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Coke ovens at the southern end of Furnace Road and 18th century bottle works on Irish Street, 200m north of Mote Hill.
Is Maryport a World Heritage Site?
Part of Maryport lies within the area Historic England maps for Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Hadrian's Wall), which can include a buffer zone around the site itself.
How many conservation areas are there in Maryport?
1, covering about 32 hectares of the town. The largest is Maryport.
When were Maryport’s buildings listed?
The first in 1950; the most, 38, in 1977.
Are there old photos of Maryport?
Yes: 3 public-domain photos and postcards from 1905 to 1912, all on this page.
Who was born in Maryport?
Among people born before 1900: Thomas Henry Ismay (1837), Thomas Ashbridge (1890), Thomas English (1820), Tom Smith (1876) and Douglas Clark (1891).
How old are the homes in Maryport?
33% of homes were built before 1919 and 39% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
© 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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