Haringey: 54% of homes built before 1919

Highpoint I Highpoint I (Numbers a to D) Highpoint I (Numbers G,H,I,K)Grade I listedCromwell HouseGrade I listedSir John Woolaston's AlmshousesGrade II listedFormer Tottenham Public BathsGrade II listedTottenham Town HallGrade II listed+31See all photos

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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).

High Road N1719 listed · 2 II*

Southwood Lane N613 listed

North Hill N610 listed

North Road N67 listed

Highgate High Street N66 listed

Wood Lane N64 listed

Bruce Grove3 listed

Highgate High Street3 listed

Of the 306 entries, 106 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 24 entries were listed in 1949, 2 of the 6 Grade I buildings among them. 158 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 9 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 registered parks and gardens

Alexandra PalaceGrade II

Finsbury ParkGrade II

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.

37% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1900–18, which added 18% 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 (140 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

John Williams

Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough

Ambrose St. John

Charles Keene

Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer

Walter Buchanan

William Herbert Fowler

John Whitehead

Leonard Erskine Hill

Charles Conder

Leonard Wilkinson

Lloyd Hildebrand

Hubert Ramsey

Ruth Fry

Mary Forbes

Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor

Hope Crisp

Oswald Turnbull

Owen Williams

Harry Bagge

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Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer1850–1935 · English physiologist (1850–1935)

Mary Forbes1879–1974 · British-American actress (1883–1974)

Charles Conder1868–1909 · Australian painter, lithographer and fan-designer (1868-1909)

Lloyd Hildebrand1870–1924 · British racing cyclist, competitor for France (1870–1924)

John Whitehead1860–1899 · English explorer and naturalist (1860–1899)

Oswald Turnbull1890–1970 · British tennis player (1890–1970)

John Williams1796–1839 · English missionary (1796-1839)

Charles Keene1823–1891 · English artist and illustrator (1823–1891)

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

More of Haringey’s homes are old than in most places: 54% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 306 listed buildings, 6 of them Grade I, including Bruce Castle. Its older streets lie in 31 conservation areas, the first designated in 1967. Of the whole list, 52% are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 77 people born here before 1900, the best known include Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer (1850), Mary Forbes (1879) and Charles Conder (1868). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1974: 158 of 306. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.