II*Church · listed 1975St Chad's ChurchOn the list as Church of St ChadPhoto: Sue Adair · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Railway Public House and Langtree Cottage · Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0DHistory Grade
History of Kirkby · Historic England
24 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Kirkby’s built-up area, 5.3 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Kirkby, 23 are Grade II. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 1% of its homes were built before 1919. Kirkby grades D for history: #20 of 25 in Merseyside.
Listed buildings
24
5.3 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
1%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Kirkby in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St ChadGrade II* listed
Waverley House (Kirkby Conservative Club)Grade II listed
VicarageGrade II listed
DovecoteGrade II listed
Kirkby War MemorialGrade 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.
The map
Where Kirkby’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 29neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
24 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*23 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 II*
The Grade II* listed building in Kirkby
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Kirkby’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas17
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Churches, chapels & priories1
Walls, gates & bridges1
Public & civic buildings1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
17 entries (71%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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.
Grade II
23 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 23 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Carters Arms Public HouseDovecoteGate Piers to South of the VicarageGellings FarmhouseKirkby Hall LodgeKirkby War MemorialLytham HousePigeon House and Whitefield HouseSefton Arms CottagesSefton CottageStables to North of the VicarageThe CottageThe Railway Public House and Langtree CottageVicarageWaverley House (Kirkby Conservative Club)1 and 3, Mill Lane101 and 103, Ribbler's Lane112, Ingoe Lane121 and 123, Ribbler's Lane14 and 16, South Park Road38 40, North Park Road63 and 65, Ribbler's Lane81 and 83, Ribbler's Lane
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 96% of Kirkby
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
No data available for publication by HE1,277 ha
No data available for publication by HE63 ha
1,341 hain conservation areas, of 1,396 ha inside the built-up area.
24 of the 24 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 Kirkby’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1975
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1975 · 20
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1969. 20 came in 1975, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Kirkby grades D for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (25 points, 5 per 10,000 residents)More than 35% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (1%)More than 1% 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.
Homes by age
1% of Kirkby’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
0.9%
Before 1900
0.1%
1900–18
0.2%
1919–29
1.2%
1930s
1%
1945–54
41%
1955–64
6.5%
1965–72
13%
1973–82
3.1%
1983–92
11%
1993–99
12%
2000–08
2.3%
2009–15
7.6%
2016–25
KirkbyEngland & Wales
0.9% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 41% 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 (57 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Kirkby
In brief
Kirkby in brief
Kirkby has 24 listed buildings, including St Chad's Church. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas. Most entries on the list, 71%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Its homes are mostly newer: 1% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1975, when 20 of the 24 went on the list. Beyond that, it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Kirkby’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Kirkby?
Historic England lists 24 buildings inside Kirkby’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 23 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Kirkby?
2, covering about 1,341 hectares of the town. The largest are No data available for publication by HE and No data available for publication by HE.
When were Kirkby’s buildings listed?
The first in 1969; the most, 20, in 1975.
How old are the homes in Kirkby?
1% of homes were built before 1919 and 2.4% 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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