II*Church · listed 1967All Saints' Church, OckbrookOn the list as Church of All SaintsPhoto: Lambert · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Moravian Manse · Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0BHistory Grade
History of Borrowash · Historic England
33 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Borrowash’s built-up area, 46 for every 10,000 residents. 30 of Borrowash’s listed buildings are Grade II. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 17% of its homes were built before 1919. Borrowash grades B for history: #19 of 59 in Derbyshire.
Listed buildings
33
46 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
3
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
17%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Borrowash in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of All SaintsGrade II* listed
The Moravian Chapel/ChurchGrade II* listed
Ockbrook SchoolGrade II listed
Rock HouseGrade II listed
Hillside CottageGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos 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 Borrowash’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%+
0 of 5neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 37% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
33 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I3 Grade II*30 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 3 Grade II* listed buildings in Borrowash
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*Church · listed 1967The Moravian Chapel/ChurchPhoto: Rob Bradford · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*House · listed 1967The Moravian MansePhoto: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Borrowash’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas23
Churches, chapels & priories5
Public & civic buildings2
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Walls, gates & bridges1
23 entries (70%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 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
30 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 30 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Church FarmhouseCoach House to North West of Riverside HouseGate Piers and Lychgate with Attached Railings and Wall Round All Saints ChurchyardHillside CottageIvy HouseLiley HouseOckbrook House and Attached OutbuildingOckbrook SchoolOckbrook and Borrowash War MemorialOutbuilding to West of Riverside HouseRailings to South of the Moravian ChurchRiverside HouseRock HouseSundial and Railings to South of Moravian ChurchSundial to South of Ockbrook SchoolThe Croft, Croft House and West CroftThe OrchardTulip Tree HouseWar Memorial, St Stephen's Churchyard16 and 18, The Settlement20, The Settlement24 The Ridings26, The Settlement29 and 31, The Settlement33, The Settlement38, The Ridings5 and 7, The Settlement61 and 63, Church Street70, The Ridings8, The Settlement
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 5.2% of Borrowash
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Ockbrook Moravian Settlement 19786 ha
Ockbrook Village 19785 ha
12 hain conservation areas, of 221 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Ockbrook Moravian Settlement and Ockbrook Village, were designated in 1978; the newest, Ockbrook Village, in 1978. 21 of the 33 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 Borrowash’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 25
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The first 4 entries were listed in 1967. 25 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Borrowash grades B for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (36 points, 50 per 10,000 residents)More than 60% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (17%)More than 52% 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.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Borrowash
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borrowash | 7,171 | 33 | 0 | B |
| Breaston and Draycott | 7,393 | 17 | 1 | C+ |
| Shardlow | 1,190 | 40 | 0 | A |
| Sandiacre | 9,373 | 13 | 1 | C |
| Aston-on-Trent | 2,433 | 12 | 1 | C+ |
| Long Eaton | 37,815 | 29 | 1 | B− |
| Derby | 275,561 | 389 | 9 | B |
| West Hallam | 5,912 | 6 | 0 | C− |
In brief
Borrowash in brief
Borrowash has 33 listed buildings, including All Saints' Church, Ockbrook. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1978. Of the whole list, 70% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1986: 25 of 33. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 17% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Borrowash’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Borrowash?
Historic England lists 33 buildings inside Borrowash’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 30 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Borrowash?
2, covering about 12 hectares of the town. The largest are Ockbrook Moravian Settlement and Ockbrook Village.
When were Borrowash’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 25, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Borrowash?
17% of homes were built before 1919 and 27% 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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