IChurch · listed 1966St Helen's ChurchOn the list as Church of Saint HelenPhoto: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Pauline E · CC BY-SA 2.0BHistory Grade
History of Wheldrake · Historic England
24 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Wheldrake’s built-up area, 123 for every 10,000 residents. 23 of Wheldrake’s listed buildings are Grade II. 11% of its homes were built before 1919. Wheldrake grades B for history.
Listed buildings
24
123 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
11%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Wheldrake
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Wheldrake’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
24 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*23 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.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Wheldrake
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Wheldrake’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas20
Churches, chapels & priories3
Public & civic buildings1
20 entries (83%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
23 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 23 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Blythe FarmChurch CottageCostcutter StoresCountry StyleElizabethan House and Elizabethan CottageGranary CottageHalf-Way HouseIngle CottageSundial, Approximately 7 Metres to South West of Church of Saint HelenThe Post OfficeVillage Farm16, Main Street20, Main Street21, Main Street23, Main Street51, Main Street52, Main Street60 and 62, Main Street63 and 65, Main Street7, Main Street70, Main Street75, Main Street9, Main Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 29% of Wheldrake
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Wheldrake 197919 ha
19 hain conservation areas, of 65 ha inside the built-up area.
24 of the 24 listed buildings stand in one.
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.
How the list grew
More than half of Wheldrake’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1978
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1978 · 19
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1966, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 19 came in 1978, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Wheldrake grades B for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (26 points, 133 per 10,000 residents)More than 68% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (11%)More than 28% 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.
Towns its size
Wheldrake has the 90th most Grade I buildings of 1,534 towns its size
Places of 1,000–3,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Wheldrake
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wheldrake | 1,955 | 24 | 1 | B |
| Elvington | 1,271 | 9 | 0 | C+ |
| Heslington | 1,787 | 21 | 0 | B |
| Dunnington | 3,256 | 14 | 0 | C+ |
| Wilberfoss | 2,015 | 6 | 1 | C+ |
| North Duffield | 1,305 | 0 | 0 | D |
| Osbaldwick | 2,313 | 4 | 0 | D |
| Bishopthorpe | 3,333 | 15 | 1 | C+ |
In brief
Wheldrake in brief
The official list counts 24 listed buildings in Wheldrake, 1 of them Grade I. Only 89 of the 1,534 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Main Street alone has 12 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1979.
Most entries on the list, 83%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1978, when 19 of the 24 went on the list. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 11% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Wheldrake’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Wheldrake?
Historic England lists 24 buildings inside Wheldrake’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 23 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Wheldrake?
One: Church of Saint Helen.
How many conservation areas are there in Wheldrake?
1, covering about 19 hectares of the town. The largest is Wheldrake.
When were Wheldrake’s buildings listed?
The first in 1966; the most, 19, in 1978.
How old are the homes in Wheldrake?
11% of homes were built before 1919 and 12% 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 · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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