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A−History Grade
History of Sleights · Historic England

21 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Sleights’s built-up area, 109 for every 10,000 residents. Sleights’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 29% of its homes were built before 1919. Sleights grades A− for history.

Listed buildings
21
109 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
29%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Sleights’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

21 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*21 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.

What’s protected

The largest group of Sleights’s listed buildings is homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas10
Walls, gates & bridges5
Public & civic buildings3
Churches, chapels & priories1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Inns, shops & warehouses1

10 entries (48%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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

21 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 21 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
How the list grew

10 of Sleights’s 21 listed buildings were added in 1989

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1989 · 101969 · 7
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 7 entries were listed in 1969. 10 came in 1989, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Sleights grades A− for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (21 points, 109 per 10,000 residents)More than 63% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (29%)More than 82% of UK towns

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.

Homes by age

29% of Sleights’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

28%
Before 1900
1.4%
1900–18
2.5%
1919–29
8.3%
1930s
8.2%
1945–54
10%
1955–64
18%
1965–72
7%
1973–82
8.3%
1983–92
3.2%
1993–99
3.7%
2000–08
0.4%
2009–15
1.1%
2016–25
SleightsEngland & Wales

28% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, 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 (17 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Sleights

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Sleights1,928210A−
Whitby12,6034588A+
Loftus4,273320A−
In brief

Sleights in brief

More of Sleights’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 21 listed buildings. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.

Questions about Sleights’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Sleights?

Historic England lists 21 buildings inside Sleights’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 21 Grade II.

When were Sleights’s buildings listed?

The first in 1969; the most, 10, in 1989.

How old are the homes in Sleights?

29% of homes were built before 1919 and 40% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.