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Church of St MichaelChurch of St Michael · Photo: Nick Moyes · CC BY-SA 4.0
C−History Grade
History of Willington · Historic England

7 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Willington’s built-up area, 26 for every 10,000 residents. Willington’s listed buildings are all Grade II. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings. 9.3% of its homes were built before 1919. Willington grades C− for history: #50 of 59 in Derbyshire.

Listed buildings
7
26 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
9.3%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Willington

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 Willington’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

7 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*7 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

7 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 7 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 3.1% of Willington

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Trent and Mersey Canal 19943 ha
3 hain conservation areas, of 92 ha inside the built-up area.

1 of the 7 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.

History Grade

Willington grades C− for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (7 points, 26 per 10,000 residents)More than 33% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (9.3%)More than 22% 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

9.3% of Willington’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

6.6%
Before 1900
2.8%
1900–18
0.5%
1919–29
7.1%
1930s
8.3%
1945–54
10%
1955–64
20%
1965–72
5.5%
1973–82
7.8%
1983–92
15%
1993–99
3.2%
2000–08
5%
2009–15
8%
2016–25
WillingtonEngland & Wales

6.6% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 20% 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 (31 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Willington

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Willington2,71770C−
Repton2,766406A
Findern1,60870C
Etwall3,080161B−
Stretton4,64650D
Hilton8,26920D−
Rolleston on Dove2,902271B
Burton upon Trent76,2641622A−
In brief

Willington in brief

Willington has 7 listed buildings, including Church of St Michael. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1994. Its homes are mostly newer: 9.3% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Thomas Wright (1842) was born here before 1900; and the list grew between 1967 and 1986.

Questions about Willington’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Willington?

Historic England lists 7 buildings inside Willington’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 7 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Willington?

1, covering about 3 hectares of the town. The largest is Trent and Mersey Canal.

How old are the homes in Willington?

9.3% of homes were built before 1919 and 17% 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.