97 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade II*

Barclays BankGrade II* listedManor House and Wall AdjoiningGrade II* listedTown HallGrade II listedChurch of St Peter and St PaulGrade II listedPackhorse BridgeGrade II listed+1See 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.

Of the 97 entries, 52 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 3 entries were listed in 1952. 50 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

Per resident, Stokesley has more listed heritage than 86% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 97 listed buildings, including The Old Rectory. On High Street alone there are 25 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1971.

Most entries on the list, 72%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1983, when 50 of the 97 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; John Coates (1828) was born here before 1900; and 11% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.