Partington Theatre · Photo: Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 4.074 listed buildings
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Glossop’s built-up area, 42 for every 10,000 residents. Glossop’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 35% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings and 3 old views of the town. Glossop grades A− for history: #8 of 59 in Derbyshire.
Glossop in 9 photos and old views
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Howard ParkGrade II park or garden
Former Dollars Public HouseGrade II listed
Conservative ClubGrade II listed
Roman Catholic Church of All SaintsGrade II listed
Glossop Gas WorksGrade II listed+4See 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.
Glossop from 1903 to 1916
3 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
c. 1903
1910
1916Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
Where Glossop’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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).
Most of Glossop’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
42 entries (57%) 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.
74 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 74 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
8 conservation areas cover 19% of Glossop
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
The first, Old Glossop and Glossop Norfolk Square, were designated in 1970; the newest, Glossop Howard Town, in 2003. 66 of the 74 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.
More than half of Glossop’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1978
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 13 entries were listed in 1958. 38 came in 1978, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
Glossop grades A− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
35% of Glossop’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
31% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2000–08, which added 11% 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 (120 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
18 notable people born in Glossop before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in Glossop → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Listed buildings in the places around Glossop
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossop | 17,820 | 74 | 0 | A− |
| Gamesley | 3,124 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Hadfield | 16,271 | 54 | 0 | A− |
| Broadbottom | 1,001 | 7 | 0 | B+ |
| Hattersley | 6,959 | 1 | 0 | D− |
| Hayfield | 1,878 | 23 | 0 | A |
| Marple Bridge | 4,702 | 18 | 0 | B |
| Stalybridge | 26,850 | 48 | 0 | B |
Glossop in brief
More of Glossop’s homes are old than in most places: 35% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 74 listed buildings, including Howard Park. On Hague Street alone there are 8 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 8 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970.
Of the whole list, 57% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 18 people born here before 1900, the best known include Thomas Howarth (1845), Thomas Foster (1848) and John Bennett (1864). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1978: 38 of 74. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Glossop’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Glossop?
Historic England lists 74 buildings inside Glossop’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 74 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Glossop?
8, covering about 87 hectares of the town. The largest are Old Glossop and Glossop St James.
When were Glossop’s buildings listed?
The first in 1958; the most, 38, in 1978.
Are there old photos of Glossop?
Yes: 3 public-domain photos and postcards from 1903 to 1916, all on this page.
Who was born in Glossop?
Among people born before 1900: Thomas Howarth (1845), Thomas Foster (1848), John Bennett (1864), Samuel Hill-Wood (1872) and Nicholas Garlick (1550).
How old are the homes in Glossop?
35% of homes were built before 1919 and 40% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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