168 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Royal HallGrade II* listedWhite Hart HotelGrade II* listedRoyal BathsGrade II listedThe Old Town HallGrade II listedGrove Road Methodist ChurchGrade II listed+17See 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).

Park Parade16 listed

Regent Parade9 listed · 1 II*

Church Square5 listed

Swan Road5 listed

Cold Bath Road4 listed

Parliament Street4 listed

Promenade Square4 listed

Crescent Road3 listed

Of the 168 entries, 78 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 1949. 114 came in 1975, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 13 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

Valley 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.

20% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 11% 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 (50 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Catherine Mawer

Charles Gatliff

Isaac Thomas Shutt

Richard Ellis

Robert Grant

Charles Wilson

Maud Sellers

Courtenay Foote

Donald Simpson Bell

Charles Hull

C. H. B. Kitchin

Harold Styan

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Courtenay Foote1878–1925 · British actor

Donald Simpson Bell1890–1916 · English footballer (1890-1916)

C. H. B. Kitchin1895–1967 · British writer

Richard Ellis1820–1895 · 19th-century English builder and alderman

Charles Wilson1857–1932 · New Zealand politician (1857–1932)

Catherine Mawer1803–1877 · English architectural sculptor

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Charles Gatliff1810–1891 · British solicitor

Isaac Thomas Shutt1818–1879 · Architect

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

More of Harrogate’s homes are old than in most places: 29% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 168 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Wilfrid's Church. Park Parade alone has 16 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973.

Of the whole list, 64% are houses, terraces and villas. Courtenay Foote (1878), Donald Simpson Bell (1890) and C. H. B. Kitchin (1895) are among the 12 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1975: 114 of 168. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 2); and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.