21 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Parish Church of Saint Mary and Saint GeorgeGrade II* listedFour Bottle Kilns at Greens PotteryGrade II* listedBretby HallGrade II park or gardenBottle Kiln at Hill Top Works: Neville Lumb and Company LimitedGrade II listedChimney at Wraggs Pipe WorksGrade 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 3 entries were listed in 1974. 16 came in 1981, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

Bretby HallGrade II

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.

John Hulme

Charles Peet Dawes

Jonathan Staley

Billy Draycott

Fred Shreeve

Jack Atkin

Arthur Wileman

Bob Warren

Sol Tremelling

Heneage Wileman

George Bowler

John Heath

George Harrison

Frederick Heath

Harold Webster

William Beesley

George Mason

Dan Tremelling

Victor Staley

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BD

Billy Draycott1869–1943 · Footballer (1869-1943)

JA

Jack Atkin1883–1964 · English footballer (1883-1964)

John Hulme1862–1940 · Cricketer (1862-1940)

JH

John Heath1891–1972 · English cricketer (1891–1972)

FH

Frederick Heath1894–1967 · English cricketer (1894–1967)

GB

George Bowler1890–1948 · English footballer

GH

George Harrison1892–1939 · English footballer (1892-1939)

Harold Webster1895–1958 · Canadian marathon runner (1895–1958)

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

Swadlincote has 21 listed buildings, including Parish Church of St Mary and Saint George. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1990. Of the whole list, 57% are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 19 people born here before 1900, the best known include Billy Draycott (1869), Jack Atkin (1883) and John Hulme (1862). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1981: 16 of 21. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.