271 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade II*

Former Preston BankGrade II* listed74, Liverpool RoadGrade II* listedHesketh Arms HotelGrade II listedSouthport PierGrade II listedChurchtown Conservative ClubGrade II listed+13See 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.

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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).

Of the 271 entries, 89 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 7 entries were listed in 1951. 138 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 registered parks and gardens

Churchtown Botanic GardensGrade II

Hesketh ParkGrade II*

King's Gardens and South Marine GardensGrade 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.

35% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 10% 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 (33 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Adrian Scott Stokes

Leonard Stokes

Leslie Stuart

Arthur Owen Vaughan

Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson

E. T. Whittaker

Philip Connard

John Bardsley

Lauri Wylie

Vera Holme

Milton Rosmer

Frank Drabble

G. B. Samuelson

Billy Watson

Lucy M. Boston

Eddie Mosscrop

Jack Barton

Charles Victor

Billy Glover

Cecil Trouncer

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E. T. Whittaker1873–1956 · British mathematician (1873-1956)

Adrian Scott Stokes1854–1935 · British artist (1854-1935)

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Vera Holme1881–1969 · British stage actress (1881–1969)

Leslie Stuart1863–1928 · British composer (1863–1928)

Milton Rosmer1881–1971 · Actor (1881-1971)

Charles Victor1896–1965 · British actor (1896-1965)

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Lucy M. Boston1892–1990 · English children's writer (1892-1990)

Arthur Owen Vaughan1863–1919 · Welsh writer (1863–1919)

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

Old houses are part of Southport’s character: 41% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 271 listed buildings, including Holy Trinity Church. On Botanic Road alone there are 21 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 10 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973.

Of the whole list, 69% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 34 people born here before 1900, the best known include E. T. Whittaker (1873), Adrian Scott Stokes (1854) and Vera Holme (1881). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1972: 138 of 271. Beyond that, it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 2; and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.