II*Church · listed 1971St Mary's ChurchOn the list as Church of St MaryPhoto: Sue Adair · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0C−History Grade
History of Knowsley · Historic England
3 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Knowsley’s built-up area, 13 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Knowsley, 2 are Grade II. 12% of its homes were built before 1919. Knowsley grades C− for history.
Listed buildings
3
13 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
12%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Knowsley
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Knowsley’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
3 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*2 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.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Knowsley
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
2 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 2 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Knowsley
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 HE88 ha
88 hain conservation areas, of 88 ha inside the built-up area.
3 of the 3 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.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
Knowsley ParkGrade II
History Grade
Knowsley grades C− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (5 points, 21 per 10,000 residents)More than 27% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (12%)More than 33% 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.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Knowsley
In brief
Knowsley in brief
Knowsley has 3 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl (1660) and William Tyrer Gerrard (1831) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Knowsley’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Knowsley?
Historic England lists 3 buildings inside Knowsley’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 2 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Knowsley?
1, covering about 88 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
How old are the homes in Knowsley?
12% of homes were built before 1919 and 13% 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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