57 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade II*

Church of St Peter and St PaulGrade II* listedWater Tower on Tower HillGrade II* listedThe Windmill Public HouseGrade II listedBuck I' Th' Vine InnGrade II listedOrmskirk Railway Station, Booking Office Etc on East Side of TrackGrade II listed+2See 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.

1915

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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).

Of the 57 entries, 16 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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.

The first 2 entries were listed in 1953. 38 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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.

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.

William Thomas Lewis

William Moorcroft

Robert Harkness

John Ash

P. Austin Nuttall

Ted Needham

Laurence Halsall

William Edward Heaton

James Hopwood Jeans

William Richard Lavender

Ed Roughley

Euphemia Lamb

Lestock Adams

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James Hopwood Jeans1877–1946 · British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)

WM

William Moorcroft1767–1825 · 18th/19th-century English traveler

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Robert Harkness1816–1878 · British geologist (1816-1878)

Euphemia Lamb1887–1957 · British artist's model

Ted Needham1872–1956 · Australian politician (1872–1956)

William Edward Heaton1875–1941 · English soldier (1875–1941); recipient of the Victoria Cross

WL

William Richard Lavender1877–1915 · English painter (1877–1915)

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Lestock Adams1887–1918 · English cricketer and World War I military person (1887-1918)

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

Ormskirk has 57 listed buildings, including Church of St Peter and St Paul. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 56%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 13 people born here before 1900, the best known include James Hopwood Jeans (1877), William Moorcroft (1767) and Robert Harkness (1816). The big year was 1972, when 38 of the 57 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 it also has a scheduled monument.