Warehouse Occupied by the Farmer's Company Limited · Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0

History of Brigg · Historic England

72 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Brigg’s built-up area, 128 for every 10,000 residents. 70 of Brigg’s listed buildings are Grade II. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings and 1 old view of the town. 15% of its homes were built before 1919. Brigg grades A− for history: #13 of 61 in Lincolnshire.

1Grade I 1Grade II*18on Wrawby Street

Listed buildings

128 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

15%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Brigg in 7 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.

Grammar School (Original Portion)Grade I listed

The Exchange ClubGrade II* listed

The Woolpack InnGrade II listed

County BridgeGrade II listed

EastfieldGrade 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.

Through time

Brigg in old photos

1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

GeorgianBrigg Marketplace in 1836Photo: 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 Brigg’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Grade IGrade II*

0 of 4neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 27% were built before 1919.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

72 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I1 Grade II*70 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.

Grade I

The Grade I listed building in Brigg

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 1952Grammar School (Original Portion)Photo: Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The Grade II* listed building in Brigg

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

Public · listed 1952The Exchange ClubPhoto: David Wright · CC BY-SA 2.0

Historic streets

Wrawby Street has 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.

Wrawby Street18 listed

Market Place11 listed

Bigby Street10 listed

Bridge Street9 listed

Of the 72 entries, 48 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Brigg’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas56

Inns, shops & warehouses5

Public & civic buildings4

Churches, chapels & priories3

Walls, gates & bridges2

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

Street furniture1

56 entries (78%) 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

70 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 70 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Brigg Congregational Church Brigg War Memorial Church of St John the Evangelist County Bridge David Todd Woolliams and Eyre Dying Gladiator Eastfield Former Manor House Convent School Former Nelthorpe Arms Public House K6 Telephone Kiosk Lord Nelson Public House Milletts New River Ancholme Bridge Premises Occupied by Ancholme Lodge of Freemasons Premises Occupied by E Hounslow Premises Occupied by W H Smith Range to Rear of Numbers 17 and 18 Wrawby Street The Old Chapel The Woolpack Inn Town Hall Warehouse Occupied by the Farmer's Company Limited White Hart Public House 1-3, Bigby Street 10, Market Place 11, Market Place 12 and 13, Market Place 12, Bigby Street 14, Bigby Street 14, Wrawby Street 15, Wrawby Street 16 and 17, Bigby Street 16, Wrawby Street 17 and 18 Wrawby Street 18, Bigby Street 19 Wrawby Street 19-22, Bigby Street 2 and 3, Market Place 20-22 Wrawby Street 22 and 23, Market Place 23 Wrawby Street 23 and 24, Bigby Street 25, Bigby Street 25, Market Place 27 and 28, Market Place 29, Market Place 3, Bridge Street 33, Market Place 39, Wrawby Street 4 and 5, Bigby Street 48, 49, 50 and 51, Bridge Street 48-52, Wrawby Street 4A Bridge Street 5, Bridge Street 52, Bridge Street 53, Bridge Street 53, Wrawby Street 54 and 55, Wrawby Street 54 and 56, Bridge Street 57 and 58, Wrawby Street 57, Bridge Street 59, Wrawby Street 6, Bridge Street 60-62, Wrawby Street 63-65, Wrawby Street 69, Wrawby Street 7, Market Place 75 and 76, Wrawby Street 8, Bigby Street 8, Wrawby Street 9, Market Place

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 6.8% of Brigg

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

Brigg 197115 ha

15 hain conservation areas, of 227 ha inside the built-up area.

70 of the 72 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 Brigg’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1976

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

1976 · 521952 · 16

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The first 16 entries were listed in 1952, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 52 came in 1976, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Brigg 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 (75 points, 133 per 10,000 residents)More than 80% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (15%)More than 45% 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.

Born here

5 notable people born in Brigg before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Thomas Ball

Charlie Howlett

Caroline Anne Eccles

Albert White

Joseph Kitchen

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Albert White1890–1965 · British cyclist (1890–1965)

Thomas Ball1809–1897 · New Zealand politician (1809–1897)

Charlie Howlett1864–1906 · English footballer (1864-1906)

Joseph Kitchen1890–1974 · English footballer (1890-1974)

Caroline Anne Eccles1871–1965 · English writer and activist (1871–1965)

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

Towns its size

Brigg has the 88th most Grade I buildings of 911 towns its size

Places of 3,000–9,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Brigg1

#144 of 911for listed buildings per resident (128 per 10,000). Sandwich, Tenby and Brecon lead.

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Brigg

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Brigg	5,637	72	1	A⁻
Wrawby	1,194	3	1	C⁺
Scawby	1,606	19	1	B
Broughton	4,499	6	1	C⁻
Hibaldstow	2,022	8	0	C⁺
Barnetby le Wold	1,841	6	1	B
Kirton in Lindsey	3,066	30	1	B⁺
Scunthorpe	81,286	24	2	C⁻

In brief

Brigg in brief

Measured per resident, Brigg has more listed heritage than 80% of UK towns. In all there are 72 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Grammar School (Original Portion). Only 87 of the 911 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Wrawby Street alone has 18 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1971. Of the whole list, 78% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 5 people born here before 1900, the best known include Albert White (1890), Thomas Ball (1809) and Charlie Howlett (1864). The rest is about typical: 15% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Brigg’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Brigg?

Historic England lists 72 buildings inside Brigg’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 70 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Brigg?

One: Grammar School (Original Portion).

Which street in Brigg has the most listed buildings?

Wrawby Street (18), Market Place (11) and Bigby Street (10) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Brigg?

1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is Brigg.

When were Brigg’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 52, in 1976.

Are there old photos of Brigg?

Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1836 to 1836, all on this page.

Who was born in Brigg?

Among people born before 1900: Albert White (1890), Thomas Ball (1809), Charlie Howlett (1864), Joseph Kitchen (1890) and Caroline Anne Eccles (1871).

How old are the homes in Brigg?

15% of homes were built before 1919 and 33% 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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