1,525 listed buildings, 30 of them Grade I

Princes Road SynagogueGrade I listedTown HallGrade I listedTobacco Warehouse on South Side of Stanley DockGrade II listedLock UpGrade II listedNeptune TheatreGrade II listed+151See all photos

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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).

Rodney Street40 listed · 1 II*

Longmoor Lane23 listed

Upper Parliament Street20 listed

Hope Street17 listed

Mount Pleasant16 listed

High Street15 listed · 1 II*

Chatham Street13 listed

Devonshire Road13 listed

Canning Street12 listed

Castle Street10 listed

Catharine Street10 listed

Duke Street10 listed · 2 II*

Of the 1,525 entries, 612 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Search the rest on Historic England’s list →

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 152 entries were listed in 1952, 19 of the 30 Grade I buildings among them. 830 came in 1975, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 27 have been added in the last 15 years.

5 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Edge Hill Engine Station, Liverpool & Manchester Railway

Robin Hood's Stone at the junction of Archerfield Road and Booker Avenue

Speke Hall moated site

The Calderstones: six monoliths decorated with rock art

West Derby motte and bailey castle

10 registered parks and gardens

Allerton CemeteryGrade II

Anfield CemeteryGrade II*

Croxteth Hall ParkGrade II

Newsham ParkGrade II

Princes Park, LiverpoolGrade II*

Sefton ParkGrade I

St James's Gardens (Formerly St James's Cemetery)Grade I

Stanley Park, LiverpoolGrade II*

Toxteth Park CemeteryGrade II

Wavertree Botanic Garden and ParkGrade II*

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.

25% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 12% 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 (348 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Jeremiah Horrocks

George Stubbs

Robert Morris

William Roscoe

Banastre Tarleton

Felicia Hemans

William Ewart Gladstone

William Stanley Jevons

Charles Booth

Luke Fildes

Walter Crane

Kate Sheppard

Augustine Birrell

May Whitty

Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

Arthur Wynne

Henry Tingle Wilde

James Larkin

Konstantinos Paspatis

Frederick Fleet

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William Ewart Gladstone1809–1898 · British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)

William Stanley Jevons1835–1882 · English economist and logician

Kate Sheppard1847–1934 · Prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage (1848–1934)

Jeremiah Horrocks1618–1641 · English astronomer

George Stubbs1724–1806 · British painter (1724–1806)

May Whitty1865–1948 · English actress (1865-1948)

Felicia Hemans1793–1835 · English poet (1793-1835)

Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel1870–1963 · British politician (1870–1963)

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

The official list counts 1,525 listed buildings in Liverpool, 30 of them Grade I, including Liverpool Cathedral. Its housing is old: 30% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only one of the 9 towns nearest its size has more Grade I buildings. Rodney Street alone has 40 listed buildings.

Its older streets lie in 37 conservation areas, the first designated in 1968. Of the whole list, 67% are houses, terraces and villas. William Ewart Gladstone (1809), William Stanley Jevons (1835) and Kate Sheppard (1847) are among the 649 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.