IChurch · listed 1967Church of All SaintsPhoto: Tony Hawes · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Mark Shirley downloaded by Victuallers · CC BY 2.0–Not graded
History of Ashover · Historic England
Old homes in Ashover: 51% built before 1919
For Ashover, that is 3 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Historic England lists 35 buildings inside Ashover’s built-up area, 554 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
35
554 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
51%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Ashover
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Ashover’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
35 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*34 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.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Ashover
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Ashover’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas21
Churches, chapels & priories6
Walls, gates & bridges4
Inns, shops & warehouses2
Public & civic buildings2
21 entries (60%) are houses, terraces and villas. 6 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
34 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 34 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Amber House, Including Attached Outbuildings Front Boundary Wall and GatepostsAshcroft Ashcroft CottageButts GrangeButts HouseCemetery ChapelChurchside CottageGatepiers and Steps to the South of Church of All SaintsGatepiers to East of Church of All SaintsGroup of 4 Tomb Chests Approximately 20 Metres North East of Church of All SaintsHill CottageHillside CottageHouse Adjoining Lime Tree House to the SouthHouse to the South of the CottageK6 Telephone Kiosk North of West BankLime Tree HouseOld Post Office CottageOutbuilding to the South West of the Old Rectory, And Attached Boundary WallOver AsherPear Tree FarmhouseRedfern HouseRose CottageRose CottageSpring CottageStable Block to North of Butts GrangeTable Tomb Approximately 12 Metres South of Church of All SaintsThe CottageThe Crispin InnThe Former National Girls SchoolThe Old Bank House and Attached Boundary WallThe Old RectoryWeavers CottagesWest Bank, Attached Wall and Gate Piers, And Attached Outbuilding to SouthWhite Lion House2, Butts Road
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 21% of Ashover
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Ashover Village 19719 ha
9 hain conservation areas, of 42 ha inside the built-up area.
29 of the 35 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 Ashover’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1995
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1995 · 201967 · 8
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 2 entries were listed in 1951. 20 came in 1995. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
51% of Ashover’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
48%
Before 1900
2.2%
1900–18
1.1%
1919–29
1.1%
1930s
0%
1945–54
19%
1955–64
3.6%
1965–72
3.6%
1973–82
2.2%
1983–92
2.2%
1993–99
6.8%
2000–08
3.6%
2009–15
6.8%
2016–25
AshoverEngland & Wales
48% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 19% 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 (13 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Ashover
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashover | 632 | 35 | 1 | — |
| Tansley | 1,176 | 10 | 0 | B+ |
| Clay Cross | 8,915 | 7 | 0 | C− |
| Wingerworth | 6,404 | 13 | 1 | C− |
| Old Tupton | 4,190 | 5 | 0 | D |
| Matlock | 11,990 | 36 | 0 | B+ |
| Holymoorside | 1,363 | 4 | 0 | C+ |
| Grassmoor | 3,528 | 0 | 0 | D |
In brief
Ashover in brief
Old houses are part of Ashover’s character: 51% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 35 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1971. Most entries on the list, 60%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1995, when 20 of the 35 went on the list.
Questions about Ashover’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Ashover?
Historic England lists 35 buildings inside Ashover’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 34 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Ashover?
One: Church of All Saints.
How many conservation areas are there in Ashover?
1, covering about 9 hectares of the town. The largest is Ashover Village.
When were Ashover’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 20, in 1995.
How old are the homes in Ashover?
51% of homes were built before 1919 and 53% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Ashover has no History Grade.
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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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