IChurch · listed 1967St Giles' Church, LongstoneOn the list as Church of St GilesPhoto: Bob Abell · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Andrew Hill · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Great Longstone · Historic England
Old homes in Great Longstone: 56% built before 1919
For Great Longstone, that is 4 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Historic England lists 23 buildings inside Great Longstone’s built-up area, 291 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
23
291 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
56%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Great Longstone
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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 Great Longstone’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
23 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*21 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 Great Longstone
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.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Great Longstone
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
Public · listed 1951The Hall
What’s protected
The largest group of Great Longstone’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas9
Walls, gates & bridges4
Memorials, crosses & tombs3
Public & civic buildings3
Inns, shops & warehouses2
Churches, chapels & priories1
Street furniture1
9 entries (39%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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
21 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 21 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Ash HouseChurchlady House and Attached Garden Wall and Gate PiersChurchyard CrossCrispin InnGate Piers, Attached Boundary Walls, Pump and Trough at the HallGates and Gate Piers to the Manor HouseK6 Telephone KioskLaburnum HouseLower Stables at the HallRose Cottage and Spring BankShakerleyStone Croft, Cuckoo Cottage and the Little HouseThe CottageThe FarmThe Hollies and Attached Gate Piers and Garden WallThe Manor HouseThe VicarageUpper Stables at the HallVillage CrossWar MemorialWhite Lion
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 46% of Great Longstone
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Great Longstone 199418 ha
18 hain conservation areas, of 39 ha inside the built-up area.
22 of the 23 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 Great Longstone’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1985 · 131967 · 7
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 1 entry was listed in 1951. 13 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
56% of Great Longstone’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
54%
Before 1900
2.5%
1900–18
0%
1919–29
6.2%
1930s
3.7%
1945–54
6.2%
1955–64
7.7%
1965–72
4.9%
1973–82
4.9%
1983–92
3.7%
1993–99
6.2%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
Great LongstoneEngland & Wales
54% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 7.7% 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 (5 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Great Longstone
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Longstone | 790 | 23 | 1 | — |
| Bakewell | 3,275 | 173 | 4 | A+ |
| Calver | 1,073 | 14 | 0 | A− |
| Baslow | 1,172 | 18 | 1 | A |
| Tideswell | 1,554 | 26 | 1 | A |
| Bradwell | 1,368 | 12 | 0 | A− |
| Hathersage | 1,861 | 30 | 1 | A |
| Darley Dale | 3,985 | 21 | 0 | B+ |
In brief
Great Longstone in brief
Old houses are part of Great Longstone’s character: 56% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 23 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1994. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1985: 13 of 23. Beyond that, George Furness (1820) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Great Longstone’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Great Longstone?
Historic England lists 23 buildings inside Great Longstone’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 21 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Great Longstone?
One: Church of St Giles.
How many conservation areas are there in Great Longstone?
1, covering about 18 hectares of the town. The largest is Great Longstone.
When were Great Longstone’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 13, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Great Longstone?
56% of homes were built before 1919 and 62% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Great Longstone 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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