109 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Merchant Taylors School (Girls) That Portion Which Was the Original FoundationGrade II* listedStanding cross at the junction of Green Lane and Water StreetScheduled monumentSeaforth Arms HotelGrade II listedThe Fitness Connection Health ClubGrade II listedStation HouseGrade II listed+1See 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).

Of the 109 entries, 53 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 1952. 43 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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.

Standing cross at the junction of Green Lane and Water Street

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.

23% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 22% 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.

John Young

Edmund Knowles Muspratt

Henry Lucy

William Douglas Caroe

Mary Gordon

J. Bruce Ismay

Julia Solly

Max Muspratt

Robert Brown Job

Albert Buckley

R. R. Ryan

Jim Rothwell

Gerald Gardner

William Powell

Norman Cornelius

Ralph Holden

Muriel Dodd

D. B. Wyndham-Lewis

Raymond Briggs

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GG

Gerald Gardner1884–1964 · British Wiccan leader (1884–1964)

J. Bruce Ismay1862–1937 · Chairman of White Star shipping line (1862–1937)

JS

Julia Solly1862–1953 · British suffragist, feminist and temperance activist

Henry Lucy1842–1924 · English journalist and humorist (1842-1924)

William Douglas Caroe1857–1938 · English architect

RH

Ralph Holden1890– · English footballer (1890-?)

RB

Raymond Briggs1895–1985 · British Army general

John Young1744–1835 · British subject who became an important military advisor to Kamehameh…

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

Old houses are part of Crosby’s character: 34% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 109 listed buildings, including Old Christ Church, Waterloo. On Marine Crescent alone there are 25 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 5 conservation areas, the first designated in 1987.

Most entries on the list, 66%, are houses, terraces and villas. Gerald Gardner (1884), J. Bruce Ismay (1862) and Julia Solly (1862) are among the 19 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.