Old homes in Hoylake: 56% built before 1919

Hoylake ChapelGrade II listedChurch of St HildeburghGrade II listed52a MARKET STREETGrade II listedDrinking fountain at West EndGrade II listedLighthouse and Adjoining Keepers 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.

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.

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.

32% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1900–18, which added 25% 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 Ball

John Jones

Joe Lloyd

George Pulford

Arthur Battishill Yolland

Tom Ball

Bill Davies

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John Ball1861–1940 · Amateur golfer (1861–1940)

Joe Lloyd1864– · Professional golfer

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Arthur Battishill Yolland1874–1956 · English literary historian (1874–1956)

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John Jones1863–1921 · English golfer

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George Pulford1873– · Golfer (1873-)

Tom Ball1882–1919 · British golfer

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Bill Davies1892–1967 · English golfer

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

More of Hoylake’s homes are old than in most places: 56% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 6 listed buildings, including Hoylake Railway Station, Offices and Shop. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas.

John Ball (1861), Joe Lloyd (1864) and Arthur Battishill Yolland (1874) are among the 7 people born here before 1900. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 23% of UK towns. Beyond that, the list grew between 1986 and 1993.