IChurch · listed 1967Church of St Mary MagdalenePhoto: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church of St Mary Magdalene · Photo: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Eardisley · Historic England
Old homes in Eardisley: 46% built before 1919
For Eardisley, that is 3 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Historic England lists 32 buildings inside Eardisley’s built-up area, 566 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
Listed buildings
32
566 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
46%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Eardisley’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument
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 Eardisley
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 Eardisley
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
House · listed 1953Upper House Farmhouse
What’s protected
Most of Eardisley’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas21
Public & civic buildings6
Churches, chapels & priories3
Walls, gates & bridges1
Inns, shops & warehouses1
21 entries (66%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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
ArboyneBarn About 10 Yards North of Upper House FarmhouseBarn About 80 Yards North-East of Castle FarmhouseBarn and Shelter Shed About 50 Yards North-West of Upper House FarmhouseBridge HouseCartrefCastle CloseCastle FarmhouseChurchyard Cross About 12 Yards South of the Chancel of the Church of St Mary MagdaleneCourt CottageEast ViewGranary About 20 Yards East of Upper House FarmhouseLower HouseNumber 1 (April Cottage), 2 and 3Number 1 (The Old House), 2, 3 and 4Number 13 (Hartham Cottage) and Post OfficeNumber 4 (Foresters Cottage), 5 and 6OakwoodOutbuilding About 5 Yards North of Castle FarmhousePilgrim CottagePugh Memorial About 5 Yards South of the South Aisle of the Church of St Mary MagdaleneThe Cruck HouseThe ForgeThe HolmeThe Old ForgeThe Old House and Woodbine Cottage Woodbine Cottage and Immediately South-East of Woodbine CottageThe Tram InnThe White House10, 11 and 12, Church Road5, Church Road
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 53% of Eardisley
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Eardisley 199023 ha
23 hain conservation areas, of 44 ha inside the built-up area.
32 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
12 of Eardisley’s 32 listed buildings were added in 1967
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1967 · 121988 · 121953 · 7
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 7 entries were listed in 1953. 12 came in 1967. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
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.
Homes by age
46% of Eardisley’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
45%
Before 1900
1.5%
1900–18
1.5%
1919–29
2.6%
1930s
4%
1945–54
4%
1955–64
7.7%
1965–72
4%
1973–82
2.6%
1983–92
9.1%
1993–99
9.1%
2000–08
5.1%
2009–15
4%
2016–25
EardisleyEngland & Wales
45% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1993–99, which added 9.1% 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 Eardisley
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eardisley | 565 | 32 | 1 | — |
| Kington | 2,423 | 136 | 1 | A+ |
| Weobley | 1,273 | 72 | 1 | A+ |
| Hay-on-Wye | 2,065 | 152 | 1 | A+ |
| Presteigne | 1,929 | 120 | 1 | A+ |
| Credenhill | 2,334 | 17 | 0 | C+ |
| Kingstone | 1,500 | 10 | 0 | B− |
| Clehonger | 1,218 | 0 | 0 | D |
In brief
Eardisley in brief
More of Eardisley’s homes are old than in most places: 46% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 32 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1990. Most entries on the list, 66%, are houses, terraces and villas. The rest is about typical: it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Eardisley’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Eardisley?
Historic England lists 32 buildings inside Eardisley’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 30 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Eardisley?
One: Church of St Mary Magdalene.
Are there scheduled monuments in Eardisley?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Eardisley Castle.
How many conservation areas are there in Eardisley?
1, covering about 23 hectares of the town. The largest is Eardisley.
When were Eardisley’s buildings listed?
The first in 1953; the most, 12, in 1967.
How old are the homes in Eardisley?
46% of homes were built before 1919 and 50% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Eardisley 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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