25 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St Benet and Chapel HouseGrade II* listedCastree Bros WarehouseGrade II listedPublic BathsGrade II listedFormer Post Office Maple Leaf Boxing ClubGrade II listedLangton Dock Pumphouse to East of DockGrade II listed+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).

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 3 entries were listed in 1968. 11 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 4 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

Derby 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.

18% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Edith Mary Statham

Hardman Lever

G. H. Evison

James McEwen

Charles H. Workman

Jack Parkinson

Frederick Barrett

James Mercer

Arthur Scott

James Hughes

Wally Smith

Walter Wadsworth

Arthur Herbert Procter

Gene Carney

Harold Wadsworth

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Jack Parkinson1883–1942 · English footballer (1883-1942)

Frederick Barrett1883–1931 · British boiler room worker and shipwreck survivor

James McEwen1872–1942 · English footballer and manager (1872–1942)

JM

James Mercer1883–1932 · English mathematician (1883-1932)

JH

James Hughes1885–1948 · English footballer, born 1885

WW

Walter Wadsworth1890–1951 · English footballer (1890-1951)

GC

Gene Carney1895–1952 · Association football player (1895-1952)

Hardman Lever1869–1947 · British civil servant

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

More of Bootle’s homes are old than in most places: 26% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 25 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St. Monica. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1990. Jack Parkinson (1883), Frederick Barrett (1883) and James McEwen (1872) are among the 15 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.