4 listed buildings

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.

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.

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.

34% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 16% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

William Wood-Sims

John Davis

Frank Tarr

Walter Tinsley

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JD

John Davis1882–1963 · English cricketer born 1882

WW

William Wood-Sims1858–1926 · English cricketer (1858-1926)

Frank Tarr1887–1915 · English rugby union footballer (1887-1915)

WT

Walter Tinsley1891–1966 · Association football player (1891-1966)

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

Old houses are part of Ironville’s character: 35% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 4 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1993. John Davis (1882), William Wood-Sims (1858) and Frank Tarr (1887) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and the list grew between 1988 and 2018.