54 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

The Old WorkhouseGrade II listedGun InnGrade II listedEbenezer ChapelGrade II listedOld HallGrade II listedCrown PoleGrade II listed+1See 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.

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 1 entry was listed in 1958. 13 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

31% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 27% 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 (91 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

James Ridgway

Albert Broadbent

Edwin Bardsley

Harold Wild

Frank Sharp

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HW

Harold Wild1891–1977 · English cricketer (1891-1977)

EB

Edwin Bardsley1883–1916 · Association football player (1883-1916)

FS

Frank Sharp1899–1963 · English footballer (1899-1963)

Albert Broadbent1867–1912 · English activist and writer (1867–1912)

JR

James Ridgway1755–1838 · British publisher

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

Old houses are part of Hadfield’s character: 34% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 54 listed buildings, including St Michael and All Angels Church, Mottram. Its older streets lie in 4 conservation areas, the first designated in 1972.

Most entries on the list, 59%, are houses, terraces and villas. Harold Wild (1891), Edwin Bardsley (1883) and Frank Sharp (1899) are among the 5 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.