Photo: DS Pugh · CC BY-SA 2.010 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Bilbrough’s built-up area, 287 for every 10,000 residents. All of Bilbrough’s listed buildings are Grade II. 31% of its homes were built before 1919.
Where Bilbrough’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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.
10 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 10 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 45% of Bilbrough
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
10 of the 10 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.
More than half of Bilbrough’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 9 entries were listed in 1985. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
31% of Bilbrough’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
28% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 16% 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 (2 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Bilbrough
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilbrough | 348 | 10 | 0 | — |
| Copmanthorpe | 3,671 | 6 | 0 | D |
| Tadcaster | 6,339 | 47 | 0 | B+ |
| Bishopthorpe | 3,333 | 15 | 1 | C+ |
| Upper Poppleton | 3,520 | 23 | 0 | C+ |
| York | 141,696 | 1,271 | 64 | A |
| Tockwith | 1,788 | 7 | 0 | C |
| Thorp Arch | 1,782 | 19 | 0 | B |
Bilbrough in brief
Old houses are part of Bilbrough’s character: 31% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 10 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1977. The big year was 1985, when 9 of the 10 went on the list.
Questions about Bilbrough’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bilbrough?
Historic England lists 10 buildings inside Bilbrough’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 10 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Bilbrough?
1, covering about 10 hectares of the town. The largest is Bilbrough.
When were Bilbrough’s buildings listed?
The first in 1985; the most, 9, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Bilbrough?
31% of homes were built before 1919 and 34% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Bilbrough has no History Grade.
© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.
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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