Silloth is home to a World Heritage Site: Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Hadrian's Wall)

Christ ChurchGrade II listedMarine TerraceGrade II listedKelter the Golf HotelGrade II listed+3See all photos

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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.

World Heritage

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.

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.

34% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, 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 (22 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Silloth holds part of a World Heritage Site, Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Hadrian's Wall). In all there are 8 listed buildings, including Park Terrace Queens Hotel. Of its homes, 37% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1978. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Cecil Leitch (1891) and Gabriel Hebert (1886) were born here before 1900; and the list grew between 1984 and 2018.