16 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

Church of St John the BaptistGrade II* listedNetherthorpe SchoolGrade II listed7 and 8, Church StreetGrade II listedThe SchoolGrade II listedEbenezer Row 1-11, 11A and 15-23Grade 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 4 entries were listed in 1966. 10 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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.

5.1% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1919–29, which added 22% 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 (56 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Thomas Rawson Birks

Stephen Doughty

George Hay

William Young

Harry Lilley

Albert Kaye

Joe Lievesley

Abel Lee

Will Lilley

Billy Goodwin

George Needham

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SD

Stephen Doughty1855–1929 · English cricketer (1855-1929)

GH

George Hay1861–1913 · English cricketer for Derbyshire (1861-1913)

HL

Harry Lilley1868–1900 · English footballer (1868-1900)

Thomas Rawson Birks1810–1883 · British priest and academic (1810–1883)

JL

Joe Lievesley1883–1941 · English footballer (1883-1941)

BG

Billy Goodwin1892–1951 · English footballer (1892-1951)

WY

William Young1861–1933 · English cricketer, born 1861

AL

Abel Lee1884–1929 · English footballer (1884-1929)

Everyone born in Staveley → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

The official list counts 16 listed buildings in Staveley, including Church of St John the Baptist. A conservation area protects part of it. Stephen Doughty (1855), George Hay (1861) and Harry Lilley (1868) are among the 11 people born here before 1900.

Its homes are mostly newer: 6.8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1974, when 10 of the 16 went on the list. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.