52 listed buildings, 6 of them Grade II*

Church of St Mary and St LawrenceGrade II* listedThe Cundy HouseGrade II* listedLime Kiln Fields MillGrade II listedSt Mary's House the School HouseGrade II listedFormer Presbyterian ChapelGrade II listed+7See 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.

c. 1831

c. 1890

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

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).

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.

The first 7 entries were listed in 1965. 33 came in 1989, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 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.

Bolsover Castle: eleventh century motte and bailey castle, twelfth century tower keep castle and seventeenth century country house.

Four watchtowers SW of town

MedievalMedieval town defences, 183m south east of church of St Mary and St Lawrence, and 335m north east of Bolsover Castle

1 registered park or garden

Bolsover CastleGrade I

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.

18% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, 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 (40 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Peter Fidler

George Yates

Annie Seymour Pearson

Ted Gilberthorpe

Tom Revill

Alf Saxby

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Peter Fidler1769–1822 · Canadian explorer (1769–1822)

GY

George Yates1858–1933 · British cricketer (1858-1933)

TR

Tom Revill1892–1979 · Footballer & Cricketer (1892-1979)

AP

Annie Seymour Pearson1873–1956 · British suffragette

TG

Ted Gilberthorpe1885–1960 · English footballer

AS

Alf Saxby1897–1979 · English footballer

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

Old houses are part of Bolsover’s character: 23% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 52 listed buildings, including Bolsover Castle: eleventh century motte and bailey castle, twelfth century tower keep castle and seventeenth century country house.. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1971. Most entries on the list, 58%, are walls, gates and bridges.

Of the 6 people born here before 1900, the best known include Peter Fidler (1769), George Yates (1858) and Tom Revill (1892). The big year was 1989, when 33 of the 52 went on the list. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 3 scheduled monuments.