IChurch · listed 1962St Andrew's ChurchOn the list as Church of St AndrewPhoto: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0
Church of St Andrew · Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0BHistory Grade
History of Bebington · Historic England
246 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Bebington’s built-up area, 43 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 9 of its listed buildings. 12% of its homes were built before 1919. Bebington grades B for history: #6 of 25 in Merseyside.
Listed buildings
246
43 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
2
exceptional interest
Grade II*
3
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
12%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Bebington in 10 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Port Sunlight War MemorialGrade I listed
Lady Lever Art GalleryGrade II listed
Candle Factory CourtGrade II listed
The Bridge InnGrade II listed
Lever ClubGrade II listed+5See all photosPhotos 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.
The map
Where Bebington’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monumentPark or garden
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
1 of 38neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 70% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
246 listed buildings by grade
2 Grade I3 Grade II*241 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. 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).
Grade I
The 2 Grade I listed buildings in Bebington
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.
IMemorials · listed 1965Port Sunlight War MemorialPhoto: Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 4.0
Grade II*
The 3 Grade II* listed buildings in Bebington
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Church · listed 1965Christ Church, Port SunlightOn the list as Christ ChurchPhoto: Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*Church · listed 1962St Barnabas' Church, BromboroughOn the list as Church of St BarnabasPhoto: Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*Public · listed 1962Bromborough Market CrossOn the list as Market Cross at Junction of Allport LanePhoto: Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 4.0
Historic streets
New Chester Road 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.
New Chester Road31 listed
Greendale Road21 listed
Park Road11 listed
Pool Bank11 listed
Corniche Road10 listed
Primrose Hill10 listed
Manor Place9 listed
Bolton Road8 listed
Boundary Road7 listed
Bebington Road6 listed
Central Road6 listed
Wood Street6 listed
Of the 246 entries, 184 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Bebington’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas204
Public & civic buildings15
Churches, chapels & priories12
Walls, gates & bridges7
Memorials, crosses & tombs6
Inns, shops & warehouses2
204 entries (83%) are houses, terraces and villas. 12 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings.
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
241 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.
The first 150 of 241 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Bebington Central LibraryBridge CottageBridge over the DellCandle Factory CourtCareers OfficeChrist ChurchChurch Drive Primary SchoolChurch of St MaryChurch of St MatthewDuke of York CottagesEastham War MemorialFire StationFlatsFormer Dower House to Poulton HallGiles Shirley HallGladstone HallGrove HouseHall FarmhouseHesketh HallHulme HallK6 Telephone Kiosk, Church Drive, BebingtonKindersLady Lever Art GalleryLever ClubLever HouseLeverhulme Memorial at Junction with Queen Mary's DriveLodge to New Ferry ParkLych Gate to Christ ChurchMile Stone to South of Junction with Mark RakeMill HouseNational Westminster Bank and Heritage CentreNumbers 1 and 3 and Flanking ScreensNumbers 10 to 14 and Screen WallNumbers 2 and 4 with Flanking ScreensNumbers 54, 56 and 56A, Bromborough Village RoadPair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Post OfficePear Tree CottagePinfold Approximately 112 Metres to West of Church RoadPond and Fountain to South of Lady Lever Art GalleryResidents Club and Numbers 21 and 22Royal OakSchool and Masters HouseSilver Wedding FountainSphinx on lawn in front of nos. 5 to 19 (odd) Bath StreetSt Marys Primary School and Number 69 Old Masters HouseStanding cross to the east of the porch of the Church of St BarnabasStanhope HouseSundial Approximately 13.5 Metres to South of St Andrews ChurchSundial Approximately 17 Metres to North of St Barnabas ChurchSundial to South of Porch to St Mary's ChurchSunlight LodgeTerrace Wall and Ornamental Arch to Rose GardenThe Bridge InnThe Enterprise CentreThe LyceumVillage Cross at Junction with Eastham Village RoadWall to Grounds of Stanhope House1 and 2, The Green1, Bolton Road1-4, King Georges Drive and 8-12, The Causeway1-5, Corniche Road1-7, Jubilee Crescent1-7, Lower Road1-7, Park Road1-7, Pool Bank1-7, Water Street1-7, Wood Street1-8, Riverside1-9, Causeway Close1-9, Cross Street1-9, Primrose Hill10-16, Boundary Road10-16, York Street11-17, Greendale Road111, Eastham Village Road12-18, Windy Bank12-20, Lodge Lane128-132, New Chester Road13-31, Boundary Road134-140, New Chester Road14-16, Church Drive14-20, Manor Place14-22, Park Road142-146, New Chester Road148-156, New Chester Road15, Bolton Road15-22, Queen Marys Drive15-27, Central Road15-27, Lower Road158-168, New Chester Road16-22, Bridge Street16-22, Pool Bank16-24, Central Road and Screen Wall16-28, Primrose Hill17-23, Corniche Road17-23, Manor Place17-23, Wood Street170-176, New Chester Road178-190, New Chester Road18-24, Greendale Road18-24, York Street19 and 21, Park Road19-22, Windy Bank19-25, Pool Bank192-198, New Chester Road2 and 4, Cross Lane2 and 4, Park Road2-10, Lodge Lane2-14, Central Road Including, 1-13, Lancaster Close and 11-21 Primrose Hill2-16, Circular Drive2-6, Pool Bank2-8, Boundary Road200-210, New Chester Road212-216, New Chester Road218-222, New Chester Road22-28, Manor Place22-42, Bolton Road224-228, New Chester Road23 and 24, Windy Bank23-30, Queen Marys Drive23-35, Primrose Hill230 and 232, New Chester Road234-238, New Chester Road24-34, Pool Bank240 and 242, New Chester Road244-248, New Chester Road25, The Village25-29, Corniche Road25-29, Greendale Road25-31, Manor Place25-35, The Ginnel250-254, New Chester Road256-260, New Chester Road26, Park Road26-32, York Street26-34, Central Road262-266, New Chester Road268-274, New Chester Road27-35, Wood Street27-39 Pool Bank276-282, New Chester Road28-36, Park Road284 and 286, New Chester Road288-292, New Chester Road29-33, Lower Road294-296, New Chester Road298 and 300, New Chester Road3 and 4, Brook Street3, Church Lane3-11, Boundary Road
Conservation areas
6 conservation areas cover 7.3% of Bebington
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Port Sunlight56 ha
Lower Bebington 201426 ha
Eastham Village22 ha
Bromborough Pool15 ha
Mountwood8 ha
Bromborough Village2 ha
129 hain conservation areas, of 1,779 ha inside the built-up area.
232 of the 246 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 Bebington’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1965
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1965 · 1811986 · 51
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The first 8 entries were listed in 1962, 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 181 came in 1965. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
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.
1 registered park or garden
History Grade
Bebington grades B for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (256 points, 44 per 10,000 residents)More than 73% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (12%)More than 34% 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
22 notable people born in Bebington before 1900
The 20 best known on one timeline, earliest first.
Frances Jacson
Maria Elizabetha Jacson
Thomas Manifold
William Hampson
Harold Sanderson
William Dod
Lucy Gwendolen Williams
Lottie Dod
John Graham Kenion
Joseph Everett Dutton
Percy Douglas
Tommy Green
John William Scott Macfie
Banner Johnstone
George Lake
Joe Mercer
Cecil MacIver
Christopher Draper
Joseph Williams
Trena Cox
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Lottie Dod1871–1960 · English tennis player (1871-1960)
William Dod1867–1954 · British archer (1867–1954)
Banner Johnstone1882–1964 · British rower (1882-1964)
JK
John Graham Kenion1871–1942 · Olympic sailor (1871–1942)
CM
Cecil MacIver1890–1981 · British sportsperson (1890–1981)
MJ
Maria Elizabetha Jacson1755–1829 · English botanist and writer (1755-1829)
WH
William Hampson1854–1926 · British inventor
Percy Douglas1876–1939 · British admiral (1876-1939)
Everyone born in Bebington → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Bebington has the 43rd most Grade I buildings of 193 towns its size
Places of 35,000–92,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Bebington2
#34 of 193for listed buildings per resident (43 per 10,000). Bury St Edmunds, Canterbury and Salisbury lead.
42 have more. The typical town its size has 1.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bebington
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bebington | 57,607 | 246 | 2 | B |
| Willaston (Cheshire West and Chester) | 2,472 | 13 | 0 | B− |
| Birkenhead | 109,854 | 295 | 6 | A− |
| Heswall | 29,082 | 14 | 0 | C− |
| Neston | 14,963 | 66 | 0 | B |
| Ellesmere Port | 65,425 | 59 | 1 | C |
| Greasby | 9,175 | 11 | 0 | D |
| Liverpool | 506,564 | 1,525 | 30 | A |
In brief
Bebington in brief
The official list counts 246 listed buildings in Bebington, 2 of them Grade I, including St Andrew's Church. Only 42 of the 193 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. New Chester Road alone has 31 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 6 conservation areas, the first designated in 2014.
Most entries on the list, 83%, are houses, terraces and villas. Lottie Dod (1871), William Dod (1867) and Banner Johnstone (1882) are among the 22 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1965, when 181 of the 246 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has a scheduled monument; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Bebington’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bebington?
Historic England lists 246 buildings inside Bebington’s built-up area: 2 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 241 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Bebington?
2, including Church of St Andrew and Port Sunlight War Memorial.
Which street in Bebington has the most listed buildings?
New Chester Road (31), Greendale Road (21) and Park Road (11) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Bebington?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Bromborough Court House moated site and fishponds, Wirral.
How many conservation areas are there in Bebington?
6, covering about 129 hectares of the town. The largest are Port Sunlight and Lower Bebington.
When were Bebington’s buildings listed?
The first in 1962; the most, 181, in 1965.
Who was born in Bebington?
Among people born before 1900: Lottie Dod (1871), William Dod (1867), Banner Johnstone (1882), John Graham Kenion (1871) and Cecil MacIver (1890).
How old are the homes in Bebington?
12% of homes were built before 1919 and 44% 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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