IChurch · listed 1967St Michael and All Angels ChurchOn the list as Church of St MichaelPhoto: Eamon Curry · CC BY 2.0
Church of St Michael · Photo: Eamon Curry · CC BY 2.0–Not graded
History of Kniveton · Historic England
Old homes in Kniveton: 51% built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Kniveton has 4 times the share. Historic England lists 10 buildings inside Kniveton’s built-up area, 279 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
10
279 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
51%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Kniveton’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
10 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*9 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 Kniveton
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
9 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.
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 53% of Kniveton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Kniveton 199811 ha
11 hain conservation areas, of 21 ha inside the built-up area.
10 of the 10 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 Kniveton’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1983 · 8
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1967, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 8 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
51% of Kniveton’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
51%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
2.3%
1919–29
0%
1930s
4.6%
1945–54
3.4%
1955–64
4.6%
1965–72
6.9%
1973–82
6.9%
1983–92
6.9%
1993–99
5.7%
2000–08
2.3%
2009–15
5.7%
2016–25
KnivetonEngland & Wales
51% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 6.9% 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 (8 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Kniveton
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kniveton | 359 | 10 | 1 | — |
| Ashbourne | 8,854 | 164 | 3 | A− |
| Mayfield | 1,099 | 22 | 1 | A |
| Wirksworth | 4,904 | 97 | 1 | A+ |
| Brailsford | 1,403 | 13 | 0 | B+ |
| Cromford | 1,395 | 83 | 10 | A+ |
| Matlock | 11,990 | 36 | 0 | B+ |
| Darley Dale | 3,985 | 21 | 0 | B+ |
In brief
Kniveton in brief
More of Kniveton’s homes are old than in most places: 51% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 10 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1998. The big year was 1983, when 8 of the 10 went on the list.
Questions about Kniveton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Kniveton?
Historic England lists 10 buildings inside Kniveton’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 9 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Kniveton?
One: Church of St Michael.
How many conservation areas are there in Kniveton?
1, covering about 11 hectares of the town. The largest is Kniveton.
When were Kniveton’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 8, in 1983.
How old are the homes in Kniveton?
51% of homes were built before 1919 and 54% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Kniveton has no History Grade.
© 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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