IPublic · listed 1954Hovingham HallPhoto: Gareth Foster · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: DS Pugh · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Hovingham · Historic England
47 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Hovingham’s built-up area, 1,250 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 45 of Hovingham’s listed buildings. 42% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
47
1,250 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
42%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Hovingham
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Hovingham’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
47 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*45 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.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Hovingham
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 Grade II* listed building in Hovingham
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Church · listed 1954Church of All SaintsPhoto: Nigel Coates · CC BY-SA 3.0
What’s protected
Most of Hovingham’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas27
Walls, gates & bridges6
Public & civic buildings5
Churches, chapels & priories4
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Street furniture1
27 entries (57%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories.
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
45 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 45 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Beck CottageBeckside CottageBramcoteBridge CottageBrinkburn FarmhouseBrook HouseClifford HouseCoach House to Worsley Arms HotelCoatesworth HouseDrinking Fountain and Curved Wall Immediately East of Gate Piers at West End of Park StreetFostersGate Piers at West End of Park StreetHall Green Cottage and StablesHolmsideHouse Immediately East of Souter's CottageHouse Immediately to East of Beckside CottageHovingham War MemorialK6 Telephone KioskLumley HouseManor FarmhouseMausoleum Approximately 20 Metres North of Church of All SaintsMethodist ChurchOldfieldsPark HousePasture HousePelican CottagePigeoncote Approximately 100 Metres North of Hovingham HallRestaurant Myse and Home CottageSouter's CottageStepping StonesThe Corner HouseThe CottageThe Post CottageThe Post OfficeThe Stone HouseThe Vicarage with Piers and Railings to Park Street (North) and Gate Piers and Wall to Church Street (West)The Village School and Schoolmaster's House and Railings Around PropertyTomb to Members of Stockton Family Approximately 7 Metres South of Church of All SaintsWall to East and North of Hovingham HallWicket Gate Cottage and SunnysideWorsley Arms Farmhouse and CottageWorsley Arms Hotel10, Park Street2, Park Street4, Park Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 78% of Hovingham
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Hovingham 197718 ha
18 hain conservation areas, of 23 ha inside the built-up area.
47 of the 47 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
More than half of Hovingham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1987 · 43
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1954, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 43 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
42% of Hovingham’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
41%
Before 1900
1.1%
1900–18
1.1%
1919–29
3.7%
1930s
6.8%
1945–54
5.8%
1955–64
3.7%
1965–72
4.7%
1973–82
15%
1983–92
6.8%
1993–99
2.1%
2000–08
4.7%
2009–15
3.7%
2016–25
HovinghamEngland & Wales
41% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 15% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
3 notable people born in Hovingham before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray
Sir William Worsley, 4th Baronet
Lionel Murphy
13501500165018001950
JM
John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray1310–1361 · English Baron
SB
Sir William Worsley, 4th Baronet1890–1973 · English landowner and cricketer
LM
Lionel Murphy1895–1968 · English footballer
Everyone born in Hovingham → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Hovingham
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hovingham | 376 | 47 | 1 | — |
| Ampleforth | 1,239 | 16 | 1 | A− |
| Helmsley | 1,345 | 56 | 0 | A |
| Kirkbymoorside | 2,763 | 43 | 1 | A |
| Malton | 6,320 | 231 | 2 | A |
| Norton-on-Derwent | 7,909 | 19 | 0 | B− |
| Huby (Hambleton) | 1,056 | 2 | 0 | C− |
| Easingwold | 5,036 | 46 | 0 | B |
In brief
Hovingham in brief
Old houses are part of Hovingham’s character: 42% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 47 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1977.
Most entries on the list, 57%, are houses, terraces and villas. John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray (1310), Sir William Worsley, 4th Baronet (1890) and Lionel Murphy (1895) were all born here before 1900. The big year was 1987, when 43 of the 47 went on the list.
Questions about Hovingham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Hovingham?
Historic England lists 47 buildings inside Hovingham’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 45 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Hovingham?
One: Hovingham Hall.
How many conservation areas are there in Hovingham?
1, covering about 18 hectares of the town. The largest is Hovingham.
When were Hovingham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1954; the most, 43, in 1987.
Who was born in Hovingham?
Among people born before 1900: John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray (1310), Sir William Worsley, 4th Baronet (1890) and Lionel Murphy (1895).
How old are the homes in Hovingham?
42% of homes were built before 1919 and 47% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Hovingham has no History Grade.
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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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