60 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade II*

Church of St Mary the Virgin and St John the BaptistGrade II* listedChurch of St PeterGrade II* listedMountsorrel Mineral Railway BridgeGrade II listedThe Nag's Head Public HouseGrade II listedMercian cross, St Mary and St John's churchyardScheduled monument+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.

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).

Loughborough Road7 listed · 1 II*

Market Place5 listed

The Green4 listed

Town Green Street4 listed

Fowke Street3 listed

Of the 60 entries, 30 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 6 entries were listed in 1966. 42 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Market cross on south side of Market Place

Mercian cross, St Mary and St John's churchyard

Mountsorrel motte and bailey castle

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.

John Paget

Kenneth Macaulay

Churchill Babington

Rebecca Wakefield

William Mitchell Acworth

George Gill

Ernest Gill

Robert Jackson Emerson

Percy Turner

1500165018001950

CB

Churchill Babington1821–1889 · English scholar, archaeologist and naturalist (1821-1889)

EG

Ernest Gill1877–1950 · English footballer and cricketer (1877-1950)

George Gill1876–1937 · English cricketer (1876-1937)

RE

Robert Jackson Emerson1878–1944 · British sculptor and painter (1878–1944)

Percy Turner1879–1954 · English footballer (1879-1954)

JP

John Paget1501–1638 · English clergyman

KM

Kenneth Macaulay1812–1867 · British Member of Parliament

Rebecca Wakefield1844–1873 · [née Brewin], (1844–1873), missionary wife

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

Mountsorrel has 60 listed buildings, including Church of St Mary the Virgin and St John the Baptist. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas. Most entries on the list, 78%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 9 people born here before 1900, the best known include Churchill Babington (1821), Ernest Gill (1877) and George Gill (1876). The big year was 1984, when 42 of the 60 went on the list. 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 it also has 3 scheduled monuments.