335 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade I

The CastleGrade I listedHoly Trinity Church Offices Between Church Nave and Tower Trinity Church TowerGrade I listedThe Fleece HotelGrade II listedMarket HallGrade II listedTemple GroundsGrade II park or garden+20See 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.

1824

c. 1893

1903

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. 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).

Frenchgate37 listed

Newbiggin29 listed · 1 II*

Market Place25 listed · 2 II*

Bargate18 listed

The Green18 listed

Bridge Street11 listed · 1 II*

Millgate11 listed

Castle Hill10 listed

Tower Street10 listed

New Road9 listed

Maison Dieu8 listed

Trinity Church Square8 listed · 1 II*

Of the 335 entries, 248 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 104 entries were listed in 1952, 4 of the 4 Grade I buildings among them. 190 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 5 have been added in the last 15 years.

5 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.

Franciscan friary

Richmond Bridge

Richmond Castle: eleventh to fourteenth century enclosure castle

Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary and portion of field system 100m east of Whitefields Farm

MedievalThe Bar, a surviving gateway originally part of Richmond’s medieval town wall

2 registered parks and gardens

St Nicholas, RichmondGrade II

Temple GroundsGrade 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.

Conyers Middleton

Thomas Harrison

Henry Greathead

James Tate

John Lawrence

John Ewbank Leefe

George Bland Humble

Isaac Coates

Alan Ayre-Smith

Louise Eates

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John Lawrence1811–1879 · British Viceroy of India (1811-1879)

Conyers Middleton1683–1750 · English 18th-century clergyman and writer

Thomas Harrison1744–1829 · English architect; (1744-1829)

Henry Greathead1757–1818 · British boat builder

Louise Eates1877–1944 · British suffragette

JL

John Ewbank Leefe1813–1889 · Botanist (1824-1889)

James Tate1771–1843 · British headmaster

George Bland Humble1839–1930 · Schoolteacher and public servant

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

For its size, Richmond has more listed heritage than 97% of UK towns. In all there are 335 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade I. Richmond Castle sits at the heart of it all, with 4 of the town’s Grade I buildings within 400 m. Only 26 of the 748 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1971. Of the whole list, 87% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 10 people born here before 1900, the best known include John Lawrence (1811), Conyers Middleton (1683) and Thomas Harrison (1744). The rest is about typical: 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.