231 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

Priory Church of St MaryGrade I listedMalton LodgeGrade II* listedThe Spotted Cow Public HouseGrade II listedBaptist ChurchGrade II listedMaltings at Joshua Tetley and Sons LimitedGrade II listed+12See 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.

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).

Of the 231 entries, 132 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 42 entries were listed in 1951, 2 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 125 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 scheduled monuments

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

Old Malton Priory Church (ruined portions)

RomanRoman fort

Site of Malton Castle

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.

John Smith

John Shepherd

Job Marson

Charles Hall

Edmund Carter

Arthur Carter

Alfred Hayhoe

George Baker

Henry Tinsley

Edith Woodford-Grimes

Maurice Harland

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EC

Edmund Carter1845–1923 · English cricketer (1845-1923)

EW

Edith Woodford-Grimes1887–1975 · English Wiccan (1887–1975)

George Baker1862–1938 · English first-class cricketer, born 1862

HT

Henry Tinsley1865–1938 · English county cricketer (1865-1938)

JS

John Smith1661– · English housebreaker; survived hanging

Charles Hall1843–1937 · New Zealand politician, born 1843

AC

Arthur Carter1848–1923 · English cricketer and clergyman (1848-1923)

John Shepherd1765– · British jockey

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

For its size, Malton has more listed heritage than 96% of UK towns. In all there are 231 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I, including Site of Malton Castle. Only 45 of the 854 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On Market Place alone there are 22 listed buildings.

Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973. Of the whole list, 74% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 11 people born here before 1900, the best known include Edmund Carter (1845), Edith Woodford-Grimes (1887) and George Baker (1862). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 3 scheduled monuments; and 21% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.