Church of St Luke · Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.027 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Formby’s built-up area, 12 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Formby is Grade II. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. 9.4% of its homes were built before 1919. Formby grades C for history: #13 of 25 in Merseyside.
Formby in 5 photos
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Cross Approximately 30 Metres South of Chapel of St Luke's ChurchGrade II listed
White CottageGrade II listed
Stone Cross in Centre of RoundaboutGrade II listed
Church of St PeterGrade II listed+1See 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.
Where Formby’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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).
Most of Formby’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
18 entries (67%) are houses, terraces and villas. 6 are churches, chapels and priories.
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.
27 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.
All 27 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
2 conservation areas cover 1.6% of Formby
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
4 of the 27 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.
13 of Formby’s 27 listed buildings were added in 1966
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 1 entry was listed in 1963. 13 came in 1966. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Formby grades C for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
9.4% of Formby’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
7.7% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 30% 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.
4 notable people born in Formby before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in Formby → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Listed buildings in the places around Formby
Formby in brief
Formby has 27 listed buildings, including Church of St Luke. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas. Most entries on the list, 67%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Of the 4 people born here before 1900, the best known include William Guy Carr (1895), Robert Molyneux (1738) and George Ainsworth (1876). Its homes are mostly newer: 9.4% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Formby’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Formby?
Historic England lists 27 buildings inside Formby’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 27 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Formby?
2, covering about 13 hectares of the town. The largest are Green Lane and No data available for publication by HE.
When were Formby’s buildings listed?
The first in 1963; the most, 13, in 1966.
Who was born in Formby?
Among people born before 1900: William Guy Carr (1895), Robert Molyneux (1738), George Ainsworth (1876) and William R. Watson (1887).
How old are the homes in Formby?
9.4% of homes were built before 1919 and 21% 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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