639 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

Golders Green CrematoriumGrade I park or gardenChurch of St John the BaptistGrade II* listedWilbraham AlmshousesGrade II listedThe Felix and Firkin Public HouseGrade II listedOdeon CinemaGrade II listed+39See 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.

c. 1873

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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).

Willifield Way25 listed

Heathgate NW1115 listed

Wood Street13 listed

Asmuns Hill12 listed

Turner Close NW1112 listed

Hampstead Way11 listed

Temple Fortune Hill11 listed

Corringham Road8 listed · 2 II*

High Street8 listed

South Square NW117 listed · 7 II*

Turner Drive NW117 listed

Erskine Hill NW116 listed

Of the 639 entries, 233 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 30 entries were listed in 1949. 159 came in 1996. Only 18 have 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.

5 registered parks and gardens

Avenue House GroundsGrade II

East Finchley Cemetery (Formerly St Marylebone Cemetery)Grade II*

Golders Green CrematoriumGrade I

Hoop Lane Jewish CemeteryGrade II

St Pancras and Islington CemeteryGrade II*

1 registered battlefield

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.

Temple Stanyan

John Walker

William Garrow

William Johnstone Hope

William Lawson

Charlotte Maria Tucker

Henry Sutherland Edwards

Georgina Kermode

John Graham Kerr

Dora Boothby

Percy Douglas Fitton

Susan Stebbing

Philip Harrison

Ben Travers

Charles Richard Fairey

Ronald Fisher

Constance Tipper

John Parr

Henry Everard

Lancelot Royle

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Ronald Fisher1890–1962 · British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–196…

Dora Boothby1881–1970 · English badminton and tennis player (1881–1970)

Charlotte Maria Tucker1821–1893 · English children's writer

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Constance Tipper1894–1995 · British metallurgist and crystallographer (1894–1995)

Lancelot Royle1898–1978 · British sprinter (1898–1978)

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Susan Stebbing1885–1943 · British philosopher (1885-1943)

William Garrow1760–1840 · British barrister, politician and judge (1760–1840)

John Graham Kerr1869–1957 · British zoologist and politician (1869-1957)

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

The official list counts 639 listed buildings in Barnet, 2 of them Grade I, including St Jude's Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb. Willifield Way alone has 25 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 22 conservation areas, the first designated in 1967.

Of the whole list, 62% are houses, terraces and villas. Ronald Fisher (1890), Dora Boothby (1881) and Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821) are among the 59 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has a scheduled monument; and 20% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.