57 listed buildings, 5 of them Grade II*

Roman Catholic Church of English MartyrsGrade II* listedMemorial ChapelGrade II* listedGrain Warehouse to North of Grain Warehouse DockGrade II listedHydraulic Generating StationGrade II listedThat Part of the Brighton Public House Contained Within Buchanan Road the Brighton Public HouseGrade II listed+4See 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.

1909

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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).

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 5 entries were listed in 1952. 27 came in 1988, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 6 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

20% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1900–18, which added 21% 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 (10 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Fortunatus Wright

William May

Annie Royle Taylor

Annie Higdon

Beatrice Isabel Jones

Robert Loraine

Jim Dougherty

Vivian Lockett

Jack Whitley

Olaf Stapledon

Bruce Hylton-Stewart

Nina Graham

Saunders Lewis

Miles Dempsey

Harry Fare

William Alfred Dimoline

Thomas Neely

Bill Tilman

Maxwell Fry

Sidonie Goossens

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Olaf Stapledon1886–1950 · British novelist and philosopher (1886–1950)

Miles Dempsey1896–1969 · British army officer (1896-1969)

Saunders Lewis1893–1985 · Welsh writer and politician (1893-1985)

Maxwell Fry1899–1987 · British architect (1899-1987)

Sidonie Goossens1899–2004 · British musician (1899–2004)

Bill Tilman1898–1977 · British explorer (1898–1977)

Vivian Lockett1880–1962 · British polo player (1880-1962)

Robert Loraine1876–1935 · British stage actor, actor, manager and soldier (1876-1935)

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

Old houses are part of Wallasey’s character: 41% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 57 listed buildings, including Fort Perch Rock. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas.

Olaf Stapledon (1886), Miles Dempsey (1896) and Saunders Lewis (1893) are among the 27 people born here before 1900. Most towns its size have more Grade I buildings: the typical one has 2. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.