Brierfield Mills · Photo: Grzegorz Gniady · CC BY-SA 4.08 listed buildings
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Brierfield’s built-up area, 7.5 for every 10,000 residents. Brierfield’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 41% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 3 of its listed buildings. Brierfield grades C+ for history: #38 of 65 in Lancashire.
Landmarks of Brierfield
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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.
Where Brierfield’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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).
8 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 8 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
3 conservation areas cover 7% of Brierfield
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
The first, Lomeshaye Industrial Hamlet, Nelson, was designated in 1994; the newest, Brierfield Mills, in 2006. 2 of the 8 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.
Brierfield grades C+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
41% of Brierfield’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
32% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, 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 (39 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Brierfield
Brierfield in brief
More of Brierfield’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 8 listed buildings, including Brierfield Mills. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1994. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 22% of UK towns. The rest is about typical: Stephen Tillotson (1884) and Jimmy Mitton (1890) were born here before 1900; and the list grew between 1952 and 2015.
Questions about Brierfield’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Brierfield?
Historic England lists 8 buildings inside Brierfield’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 8 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Brierfield?
3, covering about 19 hectares of the town. The largest are Brierfield Mills and Edge End, Nelson.
How old are the homes in Brierfield?
41% of homes were built before 1919 and 55% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.
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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