Holmes Mill, Clitheroe · Photo: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent · CC BY-SA 3.0

History of Clitheroe · Historic England

114 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Clitheroe’s built-up area, 69 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 32% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings and 2 old views of the town. Clitheroe grades A for history: #3 of 65 in Lancashire.

1Grade I 1Grade II*1scheduled monument 10on Castle Street

Listed buildings

114

69 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

1 registered park or garden

Homes built before 1919

32%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Clitheroe in 8 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.

Clitheroe CastleGrade I listed

Parish Church of St Mary MagdaleneGrade II* listed

White Lion HotelGrade II listed

Premises Occupied by Tourist Information OfficeGrade II listed

Town HallGrade II listed+3See 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.

Through time

Clitheroe from 1892 to 1892

2 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

VictorianClitheroe Castle, c.1892Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain

VictorianThe Ribble at Clitheroe, c.1892Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain

Public 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 Clitheroe’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.

Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monumentPark or garden

Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+

2 of 10neighbourhoods 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.

114 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I1 Grade II*112 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 I

The Grade I listed building in Clitheroe

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.

Public · listed 1950Clitheroe CastlePhoto: Lux01 · Public domain

Grade II*

The Grade II* listed building in Clitheroe

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.

Church · listed 1950St Mary Magdalene's ChurchOn the list as Parish Church of St Mary MagdalenePhoto: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.0

Historic streets

The Castle Street and Church Street have the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

Castle Street10 listed

Church Street10 listed

Shaw Bridge Street7 listed

Moor Lane6 listed

York Street6 listed

Duck Street5 listed

Parson Lane5 listed

Market Place3 listed

Whalley Road3 listed

Of the 114 entries, 65 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Clitheroe’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas88

Public & civic buildings12

Inns, shops & warehouses10

Churches, chapels & priories3

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

88 entries (77%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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

112 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 112 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Andrew Carnegie Public Library Ashgrove Shaw Cottage Brown Cow Public House Church of St James Clitheroe Royal Grammar School for Boys Old Building Clitheroe War Memorial Commercial Hotel (Including Stable Block to Rear)Crown Inn Chambers and Numbers 3 to 7 (Odd)Dog and Partridge Public House and Number 3 Former Stables to Roefield Henthorn Farm and Henthorn Farm Cottage Holmes Mill, Clitheroe Horrocksford Hall Barn K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Premises Occupied by Yorkshire Bank Little Moor House Lower Standen Farmhouse Major House Mytton House Amd Number 13 New Inn Nos. 11 and 13, RAILWAY VIEW ROAD Number 4 and Church Court Outbuilding and Stable Block to Clitheroe Castle and Premises Occupied by Ribble Valley Borough Council Part of Premises Occupied by Number 27 Pimlico Farmhouse and Attached Farm Building Premises Occupied by Barclays Bank Premises Occupied by Ceramica Italia Ltd Premises Occupied by Ribble Valley Borough Council in Grounds of Clitheroe Castle Premises Occupied by Tourist Information Office Primrose House Roefield Rose and Crown Hotel Saint Mary's Well St Michael's Primary School Stanley House Stanworth House Stocks Wells Swan and Royal Hotel The Alleys The Church of St Michael and St John and attached presbytery The Grand Cinema The National Buildings The Old Bothy The Towns Well The Vicarage Town Hall Turret from Houses of Parliament in Gardens of Clitheroe Castle White Lion Hotel 1 and 3, Castle Gate 1 and 3, Moor Lane 1 and 3, Parson Lane 1, Church Street 1, Market Place 1-9, Little Moor 10, Church Street 11, Castle Street 11-15, Little Moor 11-15, Shaw Bridge Street 11-23, York Street 12-16, York Street 13-19 Castle Street 15, Church Street 16, Castle Street 16, Parson Lane 17, Moor Lane 18 and 20, Castle Street 18 and 20, Parson Lane 18, York Street 19, Church Street 2 Church Brow 2 and 4, Duck Street 2, Castle Street 2, Shaw Bridge Street 2-6, York Street 21, Church Street 22 Church Street 23 Church Street 24 Church Street 26 Castle Street 26 and 28, Duck Street 27 and 29, Castle Street 28 and 30, Parson Lane 29-33, Wellgate 3 and 5, Church Street 3, 5 and 5A, Market Place 3-13, Duck Street 3-9, Railway View Avenue 30 and 32, Duck Street 31 and 33, Castle Street 32-36, Moor Lane 32-36, Parson Lane 33 and 35, Lowergate 34-38, York Street 39 and 41, Lowergate 4, Shaw Bridge Street 4-12, Castle Street 4-8 Church Brow 45 and 47 Whalley Road 46, Moor Lane 48-52, Moor Lane 5, Shaw Bridge Street 56-60, Moor Lane 6 and 8, Church Street 6, Shaw Bridge Street 6-12, Duck Street 7 and 9, Shaw Bridge Street 7 and 9, Wellgate 78-88, Whalley Road 8 and 10, Shaw Bridge Street 8 and 10, York Street 9, Castle Street 9, Market Place 90-110, Whalley Road

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 6.4% of Clitheroe

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Clitheroe 197332 ha

32 hain conservation areas, of 493 ha inside the built-up area.

97 of the 114 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 Clitheroe’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1976

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1976 · 821950 · 25

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 25 entries were listed in 1950, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 82 came in 1976, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 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.

MedievalClitheroe Castle; medieval enclosure castle

1 registered park or garden

Clitheroe CastleGrade II

History Grade

Clitheroe 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 (120 points, 72 per 10,000 residents)More than 75% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (32%)More than 87% 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

32% of Clitheroe’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

28%

Before 1900

3.8%

1900–18

3.9%

1919–29

3.8%

1930s

5.9%

1945–54

8.7%

1955–64

4.7%

1965–72

5.4%

1973–82

3.6%

1983–92

8.9%

1993–99

2.7%

2000–08

3.5%

2009–15

17%

2016–25

ClitheroeEngland & Wales

28% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 17% 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 (148 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Born here

11 notable people born in Clitheroe before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

James King

James Burton

John Brogden

James Simpson (Bible Christian)

Benjamin Dean

James Oddie

Robert Bulcock

Frederic T. Greenhalge

Jack Keenan

Dick Harrison

Jimmy Crabtree

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Frederic T. Greenhalge1842–1896 · American politician (1842-1896)

James King1750–1784 · Officer of the Royal Navy; served under James Cook (1750-1784)

Benjamin Dean1824–1897 · American politician in Massachusetts (1824-1897)

Dick Harrison1881– · Cricketer (1881-?)

Jack Keenan1864–1906 · English footballer (1864-1906)

Jimmy Crabtree1895–1965 · British association football player (1895-1965)

James Burton1784–1868 · British millowner

John Brogden1798–1869 · British railway contractor and promoter (1798-1869)

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

Towns its size

Clitheroe has the 102nd most Grade I buildings of 517 towns its size

Places of 10,000–27,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Armagh25

Ely25

Wells23

Clitheroe1

#117 of 517for listed buildings per resident (69 per 10,000). Ludlow, Bridport and Monmouth lead.

101 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Clitheroe

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Clitheroe	16,626	114	1	A
Waddington	1,005	17	0	A⁻
Barrow	1,388	0	0	D
Chatburn	1,125	6	0	B
Whalley	3,411	25	3	B⁺
Sabden	1,582	2	0	C⁺
Billington	1,743	0	0	D
Old Langho	1,072	1	1	C

In brief

Clitheroe in brief

More of Clitheroe’s homes are old than in most places: 32% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 114 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Clitheroe Castle. For its size, it has more listed heritage than 75% of UK towns. Only 101 of the 517 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

Castle Street alone has 10 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 77%, are houses, terraces and villas. Beyond that, it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Clitheroe’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Clitheroe?

Historic England lists 114 buildings inside Clitheroe’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 112 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Clitheroe?

One: Clitheroe Castle.

Which street in Clitheroe has the most listed buildings?

Castle Street (10), Church Street (10) and Shaw Bridge Street (7) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Clitheroe?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Clitheroe Castle; medieval enclosure castle.

How many conservation areas are there in Clitheroe?

1, covering about 32 hectares of the town. The largest is Clitheroe.

When were Clitheroe’s buildings listed?

The first in 1950; the most, 82, in 1976.

Are there old photos of Clitheroe?

Yes: 2 public-domain photos and postcards from 1892 to 1892, all on this page.

Who was born in Clitheroe?

Among people born before 1900: Frederic T. Greenhalge (1842), James King (1750), Benjamin Dean (1824), Dick Harrison (1881) and Jack Keenan (1864).

How old are the homes in Clitheroe?

32% of homes were built before 1919 and 40% 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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