60 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Up Holland Benedictine prioryScheduled monumentPlough and Harrow HotelGrade II listedCosy CottageGrade II listedWar MemorialGrade II listedThe Mount Public HouseGrade 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).

Of the 60 entries, 19 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 6 entries were listed in 1952, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 32 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Up Holland Benedictine priory

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.

Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent

Alianore Holland, Countess of March

Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury

Joan Holland

Richard James Arthur Berry

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TK

Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent1350–1397 · English nobleman

AM

Alianore Holland, Countess of March1370–1405 · English noble

JH

Joan Holland1380–1434 · English noblewoman

Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury1373–1428 · English countess

RB

Richard James Arthur Berry1867–1962 · British-born surgeon and anatomist well-known in Australia

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

The official list counts 60 listed buildings in Orrell, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Up Holland. Only 101 of the 431 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 65% are houses, terraces and villas.

Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (1350), Alianore Holland, Countess of March (1370) and Joan Holland (1380) are among the 5 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1973: 32 of 60. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has a scheduled monument; and 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.