II*Walls & gates · listed 1998Torr Vale MillOn the list as Torr Vale Mill, attached weir, sluice gates, watercourse walls, headrace arches, retaining walls and stepsPhoto: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent · CC BY-SA 3.0
Church of St James the Less and attached Almshouses · Photo: Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 4.0B+History Grade
History of New Mills · Historic England
26 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside New Mills’s built-up area, 28 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in New Mills, 25 are Grade II. 41% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 7 of its listed buildings and 2 old views of the town. New Mills grades B+ for history: #12 of 59 in Derbyshire.
Listed buildings
26
28 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
41%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
New Mills in 9 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Footbridge at New Mills StationGrade II listed
The George HotelGrade II listed
The BridgeGrade II listed
Friend's Meeting HouseGrade II listed
Church of St GeorgeGrade II listed+4See all photosPhotos 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.
Through time
New Mills from 1900 to 1913
2 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
c. 1900
1913Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where New Mills’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
2 of 8neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 75% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
26 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*25 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. 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).
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in New Mills
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
The largest group of New Mills’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas10
Public & civic buildings5
Walls, gates & bridges4
Churches, chapels & priories3
Street furniture2
Inns, shops & warehouses2
10 entries (38%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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
25 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 25 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Church of St GeorgeChurch of St James the Less and attached AlmshousesEaves Knoll Farmhouse and Attached Farm BuildingFootbridge at New Mills StationFormer Barn to Number 44 (Ladyshawe House)Friend's Meeting HouseHighlee HallK6 Telephone KioskK6 Telephone KioskLadyshawe HouseLaneside FarmhouseNew Mills Free ChurchNos 34 and 36 (Former Bank Building and Attached Boundary Wall)Shrigley CottageStone Wall with Plaque in Car Park to the North of the Mason's Arms Public HouseStorehouse (Formerly Carriage House to Highlee Hall)The BridgeThe George HotelThe Hare and Hounds HotelThe New Mills SchoolTorr Top Cottages109 and 111, High Street117, High Street3 and 5, Laneside Road66, High Street
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 14% of New Mills
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
New Mills 198523 ha
No data available for publication by HE11 ha
34 hain conservation areas, of 240 ha inside the built-up area.
16 of the 26 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 New Mills’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1977
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1977 · 17
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 2 entries were listed in 1955. 17 came in 1977, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
New Mills grades B+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (27 points, 29 per 10,000 residents)More than 51% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (41%)More than 94% 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
41% of New Mills’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
31%
Before 1900
9.7%
1900–18
5.8%
1919–29
6.5%
1930s
10%
1945–54
4.5%
1955–64
10%
1965–72
4.2%
1973–82
4.3%
1983–92
3.4%
1993–99
6%
2000–08
1.7%
2009–15
2.3%
2016–25
New MillsEngland & Wales
31% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 10% 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 (26 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around New Mills
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mills | 9,195 | 26 | 0 | B+ |
| Furness Vale | 1,069 | 2 | 0 | C+ |
| Disley | 3,891 | 41 | 0 | A− |
| Hayfield | 1,878 | 23 | 0 | A |
| Whaley Bridge | 4,618 | 16 | 0 | B+ |
| High Lane | 4,617 | 19 | 0 | C+ |
| Marple Bridge | 4,702 | 18 | 0 | B |
| Chinley | 1,913 | 3 | 0 | C+ |
In brief
New Mills in brief
More of New Mills’s homes are old than in most places: 41% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 26 listed buildings, including Church of St James the Less and attached Almshouses. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1985. The big year was 1977, when 17 of the 26 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Benjamin Brandreth (1809) was born here before 1900.
Questions about New Mills’s history
How many listed buildings are there in New Mills?
Historic England lists 26 buildings inside New Mills’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 25 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in New Mills?
2, covering about 34 hectares of the town. The largest are New Mills and No data available for publication by HE.
When were New Mills’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 17, in 1977.
Are there old photos of New Mills?
Yes: 2 public-domain photos and postcards from 1900 to 1913, all on this page.
How old are the homes in New Mills?
41% of homes were built before 1919 and 53% 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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