Friends Meeting House · Photo: Rosalind Mitchell · CC BY-SA 2.0

History of Ulverston · Historic England

140 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Ulverston’s built-up area, 125 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Ulverston, 138 are Grade II. 31% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings and 1 old view of the town. Ulverston grades A for history: #2 of 23 in Cumbria.

2Grade II*17on Market Street

Listed buildings

140

125 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

31%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Ulverston in 7 photos and old views

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Church of St MaryGrade II* listed

Ulverston Railway Station Including Nightclub PremisesGrade II listed

Rose and Crown Public HouseGrade II listed

The Mill Public HouseGrade II listed

Lloyds BankGrade II listed+2See all photos

Photos 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.

Through time

Ulverston in old photos

1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

Old viewVintage Bus on Coast Road, BARDSEA, Ulverston, CumbriaPhoto: Mark Crombie · Public domain

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

The map

Where Ulverston’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.

Grade II*

Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+

1 of 6neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 64% were built before 1919.

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

140 listed buildings by grade

0 Grade I2 Grade II*138 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. 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).

Grade II*

The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Ulverston

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Church · listed 1950St Mary's ChurchOn the list as Church of St MaryPhoto: mauldy · CC BY-SA 2.0

Church · listed 1950Friends Meeting HousePhoto: Rosalind Mitchell · CC BY-SA 2.0

Historic streets

Market 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.

Market Street17 listed

Queen Street15 listed

King Street14 listed

Fountain Street7 listed

Market Place6 listed

Soutergate6 listed

Daltongate5 listed

Cavendish Street3 listed

The Gill3 listed

Of the 140 entries, 82 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Ulverston’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas102

Inns, shops & warehouses18

Walls, gates & bridges7

Public & civic buildings6

Churches, chapels & priories3

Street furniture2

Memorials, crosses & tombs2

102 entries (73%) 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.

Grade II

138 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 138 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Barclays Bank Braddylls Arms Public House Bridge House Church Walk House and Attached Wall and Railings Church of Holy Trinity Dragley Beck Cottage Ellers House Fair View Farmers Arms Public House Ford House Former Congregational Church Including Entrance Steps and Gates Former Goods Station Store and House Former Midland Bank Former Tollhouse in Garden of Number 45 Former drill hall including sergeant's house, administration and entrance blocks and boundary walling Garden Walls to North of Number 21 Gothic Screen Wall in Garden to Rear of Numbers 11 and 13 Hope and Anchor Public House Ivy Cottage Kings Head Public House Lloyds Bank Lock Cottage Lonsdale House Hotel National Westminster Bank No. 20, PRINCES STREET No. 68, MARKET STREET Nos. 1 and 1A, MARKET STREET Nos. 9, 11, 13 and 14, BACK LANE Number 10 Mayfield and Bellevue Number 28 Including Wall and Railings Number 30 and Attached Railings Number 32 and Attached Railings Numbers 9 and 9A Old Daltongate House Old Friends Inn Including Railings to Front Steps Pound Queens Hotel Rose and Crown Public House Sale Room Sefton House Springfield Mansions Stockbridge House Stone Cross Mansion Sun Hotel The Globe Inn The Mill Public House The Nook The White House Trinity House Ulverston Heritage Centre (Rear Warehouse Only)Ulverston Railway Station Including Nightclub Premises Victoria Concert Hall (Now Premises of Emanuel Christian Centre and Shop)Virginia House Hotel War Memorial Warehouse Attached to West of Number 1 White House Cottage 1 Buxton Place 1 and 3, Queen Street 1, King Street 1, Market Place 1,2 and 3, Gill Banks 10, Market Place 11 and 11A, Market Street 11, King Street 11, Queen Street 12 and 14, Princes Street 13 and 15, King Street 13, Fountain Street 13, Queen Street 15, Queen Street 15,17,19 and 19A, Fountain Street 15-21, Daltongate 16 and 16A, Queen Street 16 and 18, Market Street 17 and 19, Queen Street 17, King Street 18, Princes Street 18, Queen Street 19, King Street 2 and 4, King Street 2, Daltongate 2, Market Street 2, Union Street 2-72, Sunderland Terrace 20 and 22, Cavendish Street 20 and 22, Queen Street 20, King Street 21, Fountain Street 21, King Street 22 and 24, Soutergate 23, King Street 24 and 26, Cavendish Street 25 and 27, Fountain Street 25, King Street 26 and 26A, Soutergate 26 and 30, Market Street 26, Queen Street 27 and 29, King Street 28 and 28A, Queen Street 28 and 30, Cavendish Street 29 and 31, Fountain Street 3, Market Place 3, Market Street 30, Queen Street 31, King Street 32, Queen Street 33 and 35, Soutergate 34, Market Street 34, Soutergate 36 and 37, The Gill 38, The Gill 39, 41 and 43, Daltongate 39, The Gill 4 and 5, Market Place 46 and 48, Market Street 5, Market Street 5, Queen Street 50, Market Street 51, Market Street 52, Market Street 54, Market Street 56, Market Street 58, Market Street 6 and 7, Market Place 6, Daltongate 60 and 62, Market Street 64 and 66, Market Street 7, Fountain Street 7, King Street 7, Queen Street 78, Soutergate 8, 10 and 10A, Daltongate 8, Market Place 82, Soutergate 9 and 11, Fountain Street 9, King Street 9, Market Street 9, Queen Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 14% of Ulverston

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Ulverston57 ha

57 hain conservation areas, of 410 ha inside the built-up area.

132 of the 140 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.

How the list grew

More than half of Ulverston’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1972

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

1972 · 1041996 · 20

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 9 entries were listed in 1950. 104 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Ulverston grades A for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (142 points, 127 per 10,000 residents)More than 83% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (31%)More than 86% of 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.

Homes by age

31% of Ulverston’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

30%

Before 1900

1.8%

1900–18

1.6%

1919–29

5.4%

1930s

1945–54

12%

1955–64

18%

1965–72

3.7%

1973–82

4.6%

1983–92

3.8%

1993–99

5.7%

2000–08

1.3%

2009–15

2016–25

UlverstonEngland & Wales

30% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, 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 (28 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Born here

11 notable people born in Ulverston before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

James Penny

John Bolton

John Barrow

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Ella Blaylock Atherton

Selina Martin

Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett

Ernest Glendinning

John West

Harold Roper Robinson

Stan Laurel

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Stan Laurel1890–1965 · English actor (1890–1965)

John Barrow1764–1848 · English statesman (1764-1848)

Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett1883–1962 · British judge (1883-1962)

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr1831–1919 · English novelist (1831–1919)

Ella Blaylock Atherton1860–1933 · British-American physician (1860–1933)

Ernest Glendinning1884–1936 · American actor (1884–1936)

James Penny1741–1799 · British slave trader

Selina Martin1882–1972 · British suffragist

Everyone born in Ulverston → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Ulverston

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Ulverston	11,219	140	0	A
Swarthmoor	1,030	1	0	C⁻
Dalton-in-Furness	7,551	60	1	A
Askam in Furness	3,172	9	0	B
Allithwaite	1,171	6	0	B⁻
Grange-over-Sands	4,047	33	0	A⁻
Millom	5,690	4	0	C⁺
Barrow-in-Furness	55,260	109	0	A⁻

In brief

Ulverston in brief

More of Ulverston’s homes are old than in most places: 31% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 140 listed buildings, including St Mary's Church. For its size, it has more listed heritage than 83% of UK towns. Market Street alone has 17 listed buildings.

A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 73%, are houses, terraces and villas. Stan Laurel (1890), John Barrow (1764) and Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett (1883) are among the 11 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building.

Questions about Ulverston’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Ulverston?

Historic England lists 140 buildings inside Ulverston’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 138 Grade II.

Which street in Ulverston has the most listed buildings?

Market Street (17), Queen Street (15) and King Street (14) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Ulverston?

1, covering about 57 hectares of the town. The largest is Ulverston.

When were Ulverston’s buildings listed?

The first in 1950; the most, 104, in 1972.

Are there old photos of Ulverston?

Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard, all on this page.

Who was born in Ulverston?

Among people born before 1900: Stan Laurel (1890), John Barrow (1764), Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett (1883), Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831) and Ella Blaylock Atherton (1860).

How old are the homes in Ulverston?

31% of homes were built before 1919 and 38% 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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