IChurch · listed 1951Prescot Parish ChurchOn the list as Church of St MaryPhoto: Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 4.0
Church of St Mary · Photo: Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 4.0C+History Grade
History of Prescot · Historic England
45 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Prescot’s built-up area, 11 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 42 of Prescot’s listed buildings. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 10% of its homes were built before 1919. Prescot grades C+ for history: #11 of 25 in Merseyside.
Listed buildings
45
11 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
10%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Prescot in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Manor FarmhouseGrade II* listed
West Derby War MemorialGrade II* listed
Former Picture Palace Cinema, PrescotGrade II listed
Former town house and Parr's BankGrade II listed
Skew BridgeGrade 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 Prescot’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
1 of 28neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 53% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
45 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I2 Grade II*42 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 I
The Grade I listed building in Prescot
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Prescot
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*House · listed 1958Manor FarmhousePhoto: Sue Adair · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Memorials · listed 2001West Derby War Memorial, Eccleston ParkOn the list as West Derby War MemorialPhoto: Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 4.0
What’s protected
Most of Prescot’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas24
Walls, gates & bridges6
Churches, chapels & priories4
Public & civic buildings4
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Memorials, crosses & tombs3
Street furniture1
24 entries (53%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
42 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 42 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Briars HeyChurch of Our Lady ImmaculateChurch of St Ann with Lych Gate and Churchyard WallChurch of St NicholasFormer Picture Palace Cinema, PrescotFormer Premises of the Lancashire Watch Company Now Forming Part of the Prescot Trade CentreFormer Threshing Barn and Stable/Carriage House to Greenshouse FarmFormer town house and Parr's BankGreenshouse FarmhouseMasonic HallMen of Rainhill War Memorial CrossMilestone on Skew BridgeMilestone set on the north-east verge of Warrington Road (A57), approximately 18 metres north-west of the junction with Gilbert RoadNumber 10 Including Garden WallNumber 11, Including Wall and GatepiersNumber 20 Detached Workshop to Rear ofNumber 9 with Former Workshop to RearNumbers 52 and 54 (Clock Face Public House)Prescot War MemorialRainhill CottageRainhill HallRainhill Railway Station including associated boundary walls, step-retaining walls, western footbridge, and signal boxRoman Catholic Church of St BartholomewSandfield HouseSkew BridgeSmithy Cottage and That Part of the Same House in Corporated Within Smity HouseStable Block to North East of Number 54The Millennium Centre (formerly St Ann's Church School)Water Tower at Turris Heah, Mill Lane130-132 Portico Lane, Eccleston Park, Prescot14, Vicarage Place17, Atherton Street2, Derby Street2, Vicarage Place21-23 Eccleston Street30 Eccleston Street37, High Street4 Vicarage Place44-50, Derby Street48 and 50, St Helens Road6 Vicarage Place6 and 6a, Beesley Road
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 62% of Prescot
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 HE518 ha
Rainhill 197616 ha
534 hain conservation areas, of 862 ha inside the built-up area.
33 of the 45 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
Prescot’s list has grown since 1951
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1951 · 81971 · 71987 · 5
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 8 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. Only 6 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Prescot 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 (49 points, 12 per 10,000 residents)More than 49% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (10%)More than 25% 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.
Born here
4 notable people born in Prescot before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
George Findlay
John Walter Leather
James Bretherton
Walter H. Longton
1800182518501875190019251950
George Findlay1829–1893 · British civil engineer and railway manager (1829-1893)
WL
Walter H. Longton1892–1927 · British aviator and flying ace of the First World War (1892–1927)
JB
James Bretherton1862–1926 · English cricketer (1862-1926)
John Walter Leather1860–1934 · English agricultural chemist who worked in India
Everyone born in Prescot → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Prescot
In brief
Prescot in brief
The official list counts 45 listed buildings in Prescot, 1 of them Grade I, including Prescot Parish Church. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1976. Most entries on the list, 53%, are houses, terraces and villas. George Findlay (1829), Walter H. Longton (1892) and James Bretherton (1862) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 10% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Prescot’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Prescot?
Historic England lists 45 buildings inside Prescot’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 42 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Prescot?
One: Church of St Mary.
How many conservation areas are there in Prescot?
2, covering about 534 hectares of the town. The largest are No data available for publication by HE and Rainhill.
When were Prescot’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 8, in 1951.
Who was born in Prescot?
Among people born before 1900: George Findlay (1829), Walter H. Longton (1892), James Bretherton (1862) and John Walter Leather (1860).
How old are the homes in Prescot?
10% of homes were built before 1919 and 30% 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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