47 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade II*

Church of St MaryGrade II* listedThe ArkGrade II* listedThe Old BreweryGrade II listedBarclay's BankGrade II listed11, Bridge StreetGrade 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. 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).

High Street10 listed

Wharfe Bank Terrace6 listed

Bridge Street5 listed

Kirkgate4 listed

Of the 47 entries, 28 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 1 entry was listed in 1952. 38 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.

Owen Oglethorpe

Thomas Potter

Edward Bromet

William Ernest Bromet

Cecil Wigglesworth

1500165018001950

OO

Owen Oglethorpe1502–1559 · Academic and bishop

WB

William Ernest Bromet1868–1949 · English rugby union footballer (1868–1949)

Thomas Potter1774–1845 · British politician, died 1845

CW

Cecil Wigglesworth1893–1961 · English cricketer (1893-1961)

EB

Edward Bromet1867–1937 · English rugby union player (1867-1937)

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

Tadcaster has 47 listed buildings, including The Old Vicarage. High Street alone has 10 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 70%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 5 people born here before 1900, the best known include Owen Oglethorpe (1502), William Ernest Bromet (1868) and Thomas Potter (1774). The big year was 1985, when 38 of the 47 went on the list. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.