II*Inns & shops · listed 1999British Steel Tinplate Works General OfficePhoto: Sionk · CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Gareth James · CC BY-SA 2.0B−History Grade
History of Ebbw Vale · Cadw
12 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*
Cadw counts them inside Ebbw Vale’s built-up area, 6.1 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 10 of Ebbw Vale’s listed buildings. 34% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings and 4 old views of the town. Ebbw Vale grades B− for history: #17 of 38 in Gwent.
Listed buildings
12
6.1 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
34%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Ebbw Vale in 10 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
British Steel Tinplate Works General OfficeGrade II* listed
Newtown BridgeGrade II listed
Carmel Independent ChapelGrade II listed
Christ ChurchGrade II listed
Ebbw Vale Adult Education CentreGrade II listed+5See all photosPhotos 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.
Through time
Ebbw Vale from 1905 to 1910
4 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1905
1905
1905
1910sPublic domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where Ebbw Vale’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
6 of 14neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 80% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
12 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*10 Grade II
Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings 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).
Grade II*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Ebbw Vale
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Inns & shops · listed 1999Furnace Bank
Grade II
10 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 10 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
How the list grew
More than half of Ebbw Vale’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1999
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1999 · 12
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 12 entries were listed in 1999. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Ebbw Vale grades B− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (14 points, 7 per 10,000 residents)More than 28% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (34%)More than 89% 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
34% of Ebbw Vale’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
27%
Before 1900
6.9%
1900–18
5.7%
1919–29
4.7%
1930s
8.4%
1945–54
13%
1955–64
8.5%
1965–72
6.6%
1973–82
3.3%
1983–92
5.5%
1993–99
2.9%
2000–08
2.9%
2009–15
4.8%
2016–25
Ebbw ValeEngland & Wales
27% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 13% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Ebbw Vale
In brief
Ebbw Vale in brief
Old houses are part of Ebbw Vale’s character: 34% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 12 listed buildings, including British Steel Tinplate Works General Office. The big year was 1999, when 12 of the 12 went on the list. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and George Phillips Bevan (1830) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Ebbw Vale’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Ebbw Vale?
Cadw lists 12 buildings inside Ebbw Vale’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 10 Grade II.
When were Ebbw Vale’s buildings listed?
The first in 1999; the most, 12, in 1999.
Are there old photos of Ebbw Vale?
Yes: 4 public-domain photos and postcards from 1905 to 1910, all on this page.
How old are the homes in Ebbw Vale?
34% of homes were built before 1919 and 44% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and historic parks and gardens: Cadw, © Crown copyright, via DataMapWales.
Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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