II*Walls & gates · listed 1979Milford TunnelOn the list as Milford Tunnel North Portal (SPC 8 21)Photo: RHaworth · CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Garth Newton · CC BY-SA 2.0A+History Grade
History of Milford · Historic England
Milford is home to a World Heritage Site: Derwent Valley Mills
In Milford, 45% of homes date from before 1919. Historic England lists 51 buildings inside Milford’s built-up area, 474 for every 10,000 residents. Milford grades A+ for history.
Listed buildings
51
474 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
45%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Milford
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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 Milford’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
51 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*50 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 II*
The Grade II* listed building in Milford
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Milford’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas36
Walls, gates & bridges4
Churches, chapels & priories4
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Inns, shops & warehouses2
Public & civic buildings2
Street furniture1
36 entries (71%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 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.
Grade II
50 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 50 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Bridge HouseBuilding 51 Milford DyehouseCanteen at Milford DyehouseCartshed (To North of War Memorial Derby Road)Chevin HouseChimney at Milford DyehouseChurch of the Holy TrinityCloisterForge CottageFormer Well House to North of No 14Hopping Hill Terrace Coal Shute Adjacent to Number 14 West TerraceK6 Telephone KioskMakeney TerraceMakeney YardMile stone in front of Holly Bush InnMilford Baptist ChapelMilford County Junior Mixed and Infants SchoolMilford Ebenezer Methodist ChurchMilford HouseMilford House CottagesMilford Post OfficeMilford ViewNorthern Premises of Bill Lomas (Motor Cycles) Limited and a Pair of Cottages Adjoining to the NorthNumbers 1-14 West Terrace and 15-23 East Terrace, Hopping Hill TerraceNumbers 2-8 Duke's BuildingsPear Tree CottageQuarry CottagesRailed street boundary wall, north-west end pier and south-west gate and gate piers to Holy Trinity ChurchyardRange of Farm Buildings to East of Redhill FarmhouseRedhill Farmhouse and Redhill CottageSouthern Premises of Bill Lomas (Motor Cycles) LimitedStone Walls, Steps and Iron Posts to Footpath Between South End of Hopping Hill and Hopping Hill Terrace, Shaw LaneThe Holly Bush InnThe King WilliamThe TowerThree Iron Posts at Top of West Steps to Footpath in Front of Chevin AlleyWar Memorial1-28 Hopping Hill1-5, Chevin Alley13, 15 and 17, Chevin Road2 and 3, Foundry Lane, Milford21, 22 and 23 Derby Road29 and 30, Hopping Hill31-52, Hopping Hill4, Sunny Hill47, Sunny Hill57-64, Hopping Hill65, Hopping Hill7 and 9, Sunny Hill8-12, 12A and 14, WELL LANE
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 85% of Milford
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Belper and Milford 197540 ha
40 hain conservation areas, of 47 ha inside the built-up area.
51 of the 51 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 Milford’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1979
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1979 · 47
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1966. 47 came in 1979, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
World Heritage
| Derwent Valley MillsUNESCO World Heritage Site, partly or wholly inside the town |
History Grade
Milford grades A+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (52 points, 483 per 10,000 residents)More than 86% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (45%)More than 96% of 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.
Homes by age
45% of Milford’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
37%
Before 1900
7.4%
1900–18
1.8%
1919–29
9.4%
1930s
6.6%
1945–54
3.8%
1955–64
3.8%
1965–72
1.8%
1973–82
1.8%
1983–92
3.8%
1993–99
8.4%
2000–08
4.6%
2009–15
9.4%
2016–25
MilfordEngland & Wales
37% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 9.4% 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 Milford
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milford | 1,077 | 51 | 0 | A+ |
| Holbrook | 1,802 | 12 | 0 | B+ |
| Makeney | 4,691 | 32 | 1 | B+ |
| Belper | 19,076 | 149 | 1 | A− |
| Denby Bottles | 1,756 | 0 | 0 | C− |
| Kilburn and Horsley Woodhouse | 4,447 | 4 | 0 | C |
| Little Eaton | 1,875 | 15 | 0 | B |
| Heage | 2,584 | 8 | 0 | B |
In brief
Milford in brief
Part of Derwent Valley Mills, a World Heritage Site, lies in Milford. In all there are 51 listed buildings. Of its homes, 45% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 86% of UK towns.
A conservation area has protected part of it since 1975. Of the whole list, 71% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1979: 47 of 51. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building.
Questions about Milford’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Milford?
Historic England lists 51 buildings inside Milford’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 50 Grade II.
Is Milford a World Heritage Site?
Milford is home to part or all of Derwent Valley Mills, inscribed by UNESCO.
How many conservation areas are there in Milford?
1, covering about 40 hectares of the town. The largest is Belper and Milford.
When were Milford’s buildings listed?
The first in 1966; the most, 47, in 1979.
How old are the homes in Milford?
45% of homes were built before 1919 and 56% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
© 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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