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History of Sockbridge · Historic England

25 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Sockbridge’s built-up area, 638 for every 10,000 residents. All of Sockbridge’s listed buildings are Grade II. 21% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
25
638 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
21%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Sockbridge’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

25 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*25 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.

What’s protected

Most of Sockbridge’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas13
Public & civic buildings7
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Walls, gates & bridges2
Inns, shops & warehouses1

13 entries (52%) are houses, terraces and villas.

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

25 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 25 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
How the list grew

More than half of Sockbridge’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1991

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1991 · 161968 · 9
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 9 entries were listed in 1968. 16 came in 1991. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Sockbridge

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Sockbridge392250—
Penrith16,7051793A
Appleby-in-Westmorland3,2331406A+
In brief

Sockbridge in brief

The official list counts 25 listed buildings in Sockbridge. Most entries on the list, 52%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1991, when 16 of the 25 went on the list. The rest is about typical: 21% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Sockbridge’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Sockbridge?

Historic England lists 25 buildings inside Sockbridge’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 25 Grade II.

When were Sockbridge’s buildings listed?

The first in 1968; the most, 16, in 1991.

How old are the homes in Sockbridge?

21% of homes were built before 1919 and 24% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Sockbridge has no History Grade.

© 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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