IChurch · listed 1967All Saints’ ChurchOn the list as Church of All SaintsPhoto: Adrian Channing · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Andrew Tryon · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Youlgreave · Historic England
Old homes in Youlgreave: 51% built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Youlgreave has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 32 buildings inside Youlgreave’s built-up area, 452 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
32
452 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
51%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Youlgreave
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 Youlgreave’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
32 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*30 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 I
The Grade I listed building in Youlgreave
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Youlgreave
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Public · listed 1967Old Hall FarmhousePhoto: Dave.Dunford · CC BY-SA 4.0
What’s protected
The largest group of Youlgreave’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas11
Public & civic buildings6
Street furniture5
Walls, gates & bridges5
Churches, chapels & priories4
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
11 entries (34%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
30 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 30 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
All Saints School and School HouseAuburn House and Attached RailingsBarn to East of Old Hall FarmhouseBeech Cottage and Attached CottageBull's Head Chambers Bull's Head HotelConduit HeadCottage Attached to East of No 5 Church StreetDove CottageEastern Gates, Steps and Walls to All Saints ChurchyardFountain View CottageGarden Walls, Pergola and Gatepiers to Raenstor CloseIvy CottageK6 Telephone KioskLathkill House and Attached Railings and Garden WallsLinden CottageLodge, Stableblock and Outbuilding to Raenstor CloseMedway Cottage and Attached CottageNo 1 and Attached RailingsNos 3 and 5 and Garden RailingsObelisk to 15 Metres North of Chancel of All Saints ChurchOld HallRaenstor Close and Attached GarageStores CottagesSundial 10 Metres South West of All Saints Church PorchThe VicarageThimble HallTurret House and Attached RailingsWestern Gatepiers and Gates to All Saints ChurchyardWoodside ViewYha Hostel
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 40% of Youlgreave
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Youlgreave 198215 ha
15 hain conservation areas, of 38 ha inside the built-up area.
29 of the 32 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 Youlgreave’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1985 · 211967 · 9
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The first 9 entries were listed in 1967, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 21 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
51% of Youlgreave’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
48%
Before 1900
3.9%
1900–18
6.4%
1919–29
10%
1930s
9.1%
1945–54
2.5%
1955–64
2.5%
1965–72
6.4%
1973–82
3.9%
1983–92
2.5%
1993–99
1.4%
2000–08
3.9%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
YoulgreaveEngland & Wales
48% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 10% 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 (5 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Youlgreave
In brief
Youlgreave in brief
More of Youlgreave’s homes are old than in most places: 51% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 32 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1982. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1985: 21 of 32. Beyond that, Joseph Birds (1887) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Youlgreave’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Youlgreave?
Historic England lists 32 buildings inside Youlgreave’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 30 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Youlgreave?
One: Church of All Saints.
How many conservation areas are there in Youlgreave?
1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is Youlgreave.
When were Youlgreave’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 21, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Youlgreave?
51% of homes were built before 1919 and 67% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Youlgreave 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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