II*Public · listed 1951Winster Market HouseOn the list as The Market HallPhoto: ceridwen · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: David Lally · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Winster · Historic England
Winster: 56% of homes built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Winster has 4 times the share. Historic England lists 65 buildings inside Winster’s built-up area, 1,178 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
65
1,178 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
56%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Winster
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 Winster’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.
65 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*63 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 Winster
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 1951Winster HallPhoto: Dennis Thorley · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Winster’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas47
Inns, shops & warehouses7
Walls, gates & bridges4
Churches, chapels & priories4
Public & civic buildings2
Street furniture1
47 entries (72%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 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
63 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 63 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Anson Row Portaway CottageArchway HouseBank HouseBank House North Boundary Wall and Gate PiersBradley HouseBriar Cottage and Attached OutbuildingCarillonChurch of St John the BaptistCottage to the south of the Bowling Green InnDale Cottage Tite CottageDene CroftDenver HouseDower HouseGable End and Adjoining HouseGate Piers and Flanking Walls to Winster HallGatepiers and Flanking Walls to Dower HouseGrey TorHarness Room Squire WhitesHeathcote House and CottageHolmeleaHouse Attached South of Kirkby House and Attached ShopHouse to East of HolmeleaHouse to the North East of Bradley HouseHouse to the North West of the Bowling Green InnHouse to the North of and Adjoining Dene CroftHouse to the South West of the HeadlandsInglenookJasmine Cottage and Attached House at North EndK6 Telephone KioskKirby House and attached shopLansdowne House and Georgic HouseManse HouseMarmalade CottageMethodist Schoolroom Railings and Boundary WallsMoot House the CottageOutbuilding to the North of Number 11Outbuilding to the South West of ChapelPair of Cottages to the South West of the Wesleyan Reform ChapelPair of Houses Opposite Winster HousePair of Houses to the West of Vernon HousePrimitive Methodist ChapelRock ViewRose CottageRose CottageRosedeneRoselea CottageSmithy HouseStanfree House and Adjoining HouseStoneheath and Adjoining HouseThe Bowling Green InnThe HeadlandsThe LodgeThe Old BakehouseThe Old BrewhouseThe Old ForgeThe Old HouseThe Old Shoulder of Mutton InnVernon HouseVirginia HouseWoodhays2 and 3, Woodhouse Lane6-8 Wooley's Yard9 and 10, Wooley's Yard
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 42% of Winster
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Winster 198110 ha
10 hain conservation areas, of 24 ha inside the built-up area.
65 of the 65 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 Winster’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1967
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1967 · 341984 · 28
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 2 entries were listed in 1951. 34 came in 1967. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
56% of Winster’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
55%
Before 1900
1.1%
1900–18
1.1%
1919–29
11%
1930s
2.6%
1945–54
7.7%
1955–64
7.7%
1965–72
6.2%
1973–82
1.1%
1983–92
2.6%
1993–99
1.1%
2000–08
1.1%
2009–15
1.1%
2016–25
WinsterEngland & Wales
55% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 11% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Winster
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winster | 552 | 65 | 0 | — |
| Darley Dale | 3,985 | 21 | 0 | B+ |
| Matlock | 11,990 | 36 | 0 | B+ |
| Cromford | 1,395 | 83 | 10 | A+ |
| Wirksworth | 4,904 | 97 | 1 | A+ |
| Tansley | 1,176 | 10 | 0 | B+ |
| Bakewell | 3,275 | 173 | 4 | A+ |
| Baslow | 1,172 | 18 | 1 | A |
In brief
Winster in brief
Old houses are part of Winster’s character: 56% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 65 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1981. Of the whole list, 72% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1967: 34 of 65.
Questions about Winster’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Winster?
Historic England lists 65 buildings inside Winster’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 63 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Winster?
1, covering about 10 hectares of the town. The largest is Winster.
When were Winster’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 34, in 1967.
How old are the homes in Winster?
56% of homes were built before 1919 and 68% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Winster 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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