43 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of All SaintsGrade I listedMarket Cross Approximately 2 Metres South of No 12Grade II listedNational Westminster BankGrade II listedTontine House and Carriage Arch to RightGrade II listedWindmill at Rear of No 17Grade II listed+2See 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.

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.

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 6 entries were listed in 1955, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 31 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

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.

24% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 18% 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 (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Joseph Judson

Arnold Sullivan

Thomas Pierson Frank

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Arnold Sullivan1878–1943 · English cricketer (1878-1943)

Thomas Pierson Frank1881–1951 · British engineer (1881–1951)

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Joseph Judson1619–1690 · Deputy

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

More of Kirkbymoorside’s homes are old than in most places: 25% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 43 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of All Saints. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 78% of UK towns. Only 92 of the 1,273 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976. Most entries on the list, 51%, are houses, terraces and villas. Arnold Sullivan (1878), Thomas Pierson Frank (1881) and Joseph Judson (1619) were all born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has a scheduled monument.