II*Church · listed 1984Church of St PeterPhoto: Mick Lobb · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Jonathan Clitheroe · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Parwich · Historic England
Old homes in Parwich: 53% built before 1919
Against 15% in the typical town, Parwich has 4 times the share. Historic England lists 33 buildings inside Parwich’s built-up area, 2,895 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
33
2,895 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
53%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Parwich
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 Parwich’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.
33 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*31 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 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Parwich
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*Public · listed 1952Parwich HallOn the list as The HallPhoto: Mick Lobb · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Parwich’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas17
Walls, gates & bridges9
Public & civic buildings4
Churches, chapels & priories2
Street furniture1
17 entries (52%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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
31 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 31 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn North of Flat Stiles HouseBrentwoodBrook Cottage Brook HouseChurch FarmhouseChurch Gate House and Church Gate CottageCreamery Lane Cottages, two at south end of terrace of threeCrown House and Attached OutbuildingFernleaFlatts Stile FarmhouseFlaxdale House, Attached Outbuildings, Garden Wall and Gate PiersGarden Terraces, Walls and Entrance GatesGardeners CottageHallcliff House and Garden WallHallgates Cottage Wheatsheaf CottageHouse and Garden Wall to the South West of FernleaJasmine Cottage the CottageK6 Telephone KioskKnob HallMethodist Chapel and Attached Wall and RailingsOrchard ViewOutbuilding to the North of the FoldSchool, Former Schoolmaster's House and Retaining WallShaw House and Attached OutbuildingShaw Lane CottageSlate HouseStabling and Attached Cottage Opposite Parwich HallSummerhouse at the HallThe FoldThe Old Post Office, garden wall, gate piers and railingsThe RookeryWillow Cottage and garden wall
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 73% of Parwich
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Parwich 198618 ha
18 hain conservation areas, of 25 ha inside the built-up area.
33 of the 33 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 Parwich’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 241967 · 7
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 1 entry was listed in 1952. 24 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
53% of Parwich’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
50%
Before 1900
6%
1900–18
2%
1919–29
2%
1930s
8%
1945–54
6%
1955–64
2%
1965–72
10%
1973–82
8%
1983–92
2%
1993–99
2%
2000–08
2%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
ParwichEngland & Wales
50% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, 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 (2 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Parwich
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parwich | 114 | 33 | 0 | — |
| Ashbourne | 8,854 | 164 | 3 | A− |
| Mayfield | 1,099 | 22 | 1 | A |
| Wirksworth | 4,904 | 97 | 1 | A+ |
| Cromford | 1,395 | 83 | 10 | A+ |
| Darley Dale | 3,985 | 21 | 0 | B+ |
| Matlock | 11,990 | 36 | 0 | B+ |
| Brailsford | 1,403 | 13 | 0 | B+ |
In brief
Parwich in brief
Old houses are part of Parwich’s character: 53% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 33 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1986.
Most entries on the list, 52%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1984, when 24 of the 33 went on the list. The rest is about typical: John Charles Cox (1843) and Joseph Hawley (1603) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Parwich’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Parwich?
Historic England lists 33 buildings inside Parwich’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 31 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Parwich?
1, covering about 18 hectares of the town. The largest is Parwich.
When were Parwich’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 24, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Parwich?
53% of homes were built before 1919 and 58% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Parwich has no History Grade.
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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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