II*House · listed 1968Waggoner Tunstead FarmhousePhoto: Trappedinburnley · CC BY-SA 4.0
Waggoner Tunstead Farmhouse · Photo: Trappedinburnley · CC BY-SA 4.0A−History Grade
History of Bacup · Historic England
52 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Bacup’s built-up area, 38 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Bacup, 50 are Grade II. 41% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. Bacup grades A− for history: #7 of 65 in Lancashire.
Listed buildings
52
38 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
41%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Bacup in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
The LaurelsGrade II* listed
Waterloo HotelGrade II listed
Church of St John the EvangelistGrade II listed
Stubbylee HallGrade II listed
Waterside MillGrade II listed+1See 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.
The map
Where Bacup’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%+
3 of 9neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 64% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
52 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*50 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. 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 Bacup
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*House · listed 1968Forest HouseOn the list as The LaurelsPhoto: robert wade · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Bacup’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas30
Churches, chapels & priories7
Public & civic buildings5
Inns, shops & warehouses4
Walls, gates & bridges4
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
30 entries (58%) are houses, terraces and villas. 7 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
50 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 50 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Bacup War MemorialBankside Hall and Bankside HouseBarn C20 Metres West of Fairwall FarmhouseBritannia MillCast Iron Wall to BridgeChrist ChurchChurch of St John the EvangelistChurch of St SaviourChurch of the Holy TrinityEsther PlaceFairwall FarmhouseFearns Hall and Fearns Hall FarmhouseFormer Vicarage to Church of St SaviourGate Arch to Churchyard of Church of St SaviourGate Arch to Garden of Rockcliffe HouseGate Piers at Entrance of Drive to Rockcliffe HouseIvy CottageLane Ends FarmhouseLee FarmhouseLodge to Rockcliffe HouseMechanics HallMoss Meadows FarmhouseMunn Monument C5 Metres West of Church of the Holy TrinityOld Market HallRockcliffe HouseRockcliffe WoodStables and Coach House to Rockcliffe HouseStacksteads MillStocksStubbylee HallThe GreensWar memorial in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist, BacupWaterbarn Baptist ChapelWaterloo HotelWaterside Mill12,14 and 16, King Street120 and 122, Booth Road15, Yorkshire Street16, Rochdale Road18 and 20 Market Street19 and 21, Rochdale Road20 and 22, Yorkshire Street22,24 and 26, Rake Head Lane23, Rochdale Road320 and 322, Newchurch Road36-38, Todmorden Road366 and 368, Newchurch Road38 and 40, Oakenclough Road42, Todmorden Road9 and 11 King Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 3.7% of Bacup
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Bacup Town Centre15 ha
15 hain conservation areas, of 419 ha inside the built-up area.
20 of the 52 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 Bacup’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 44
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1957. 44 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Bacup grades A− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (54 points, 40 per 10,000 residents)More than 62% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (41%)More than 94% 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
41% of Bacup’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
38%
Before 1900
2%
1900–18
4.7%
1919–29
8.3%
1930s
11%
1945–54
3.3%
1955–64
4.4%
1965–72
9%
1973–82
2.7%
1983–92
3.1%
1993–99
6.6%
2000–08
4.5%
2009–15
2.7%
2016–25
BacupEngland & Wales
38% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, 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 (82 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bacup
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacup | 13,559 | 52 | 0 | A− |
| Weir | 1,290 | 0 | 0 | C |
| Whitworth | 6,713 | 17 | 0 | B |
| Rawtenstall | 23,683 | 78 | 0 | A− |
| Todmorden | 12,971 | 135 | 2 | A+ |
| Wardle | 2,112 | 10 | 0 | B− |
| Edenfield | 2,048 | 2 | 0 | C+ |
| Haslingden | 16,005 | 27 | 0 | B+ |
In brief
Bacup in brief
More of Bacup’s homes are old than in most places: 41% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 52 listed buildings, including Waggoner Tunstead Farmhouse. A conservation area protects part of it.
Of the whole list, 58% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1984: 44 of 52. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Herbert Bolton (1863) and John B. Sutcliffe (1853) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Bacup’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bacup?
Historic England lists 52 buildings inside Bacup’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 50 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Bacup?
1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is Bacup Town Centre.
When were Bacup’s buildings listed?
The first in 1957; the most, 44, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Bacup?
41% of homes were built before 1919 and 54% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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