13 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St GilesGrade I listedCanal Bridge at Sk 481 367Grade II listedDr Bland's AlmshousesGrade II listedSpringfield Mill Factory and ChimneyGrade II listed+1See all photos

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.

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).

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.

The first 2 entries were listed in 1967, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 11 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

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.

The official list counts 13 listed buildings in Sandiacre, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Giles. Only 98 of the 702 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1984. The big year was 1986, when 11 of the 13 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has a scheduled monument; and 10% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.