The Dock Public House · Photo: Simon Cobb · CC020 listed buildings
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Amble’s built-up area, 34 for every 10,000 residents. Amble’s listed buildings are all Grade II. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 23% of its homes were built before 1919. Amble grades B for history: #7 of 20 in Northumberland.
Amble in 6 photos
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Church of St CuthbertGrade II listed
Main Block of Co Operative Society PremisesGrade II listed
The Vicarage with Outbuildings and Yard WallGrade II listed
Amble War Memorial Clock TowerGrade II listed
3 5 7, North StreetGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos 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.
Where Amble’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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).
The largest group of Amble’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
8 entries (40%) 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.
20 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 20 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 14% of Amble
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
18 of the 20 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.
More than half of Amble’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1988
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 3 entries were listed in 1949. 17 came in 1988, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Amble grades B for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
23% of Amble’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
13% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 13% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Amble
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amble | 5,852 | 20 | 0 | B |
| Warkworth | 1,412 | 75 | 2 | A |
| Hadston | 2,713 | 1 | 0 | D− |
| South Broomhill | 1,520 | 0 | 0 | C− |
| Shilbottle | 1,787 | 10 | 0 | C+ |
| Felton | 1,270 | 37 | 1 | A |
| Widdrington Station | 2,495 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Alnwick | 8,432 | 249 | 5 | A |
Amble in brief
More of Amble’s homes are old than in most places: 23% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 20 listed buildings, including The Dock Public House. A conservation area has protected part of it since 2007. The big year was 1988, when 17 of the 20 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Ridley Burton (1893) and James Calvert Spence (1892) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Amble’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Amble?
Historic England lists 20 buildings inside Amble’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 20 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Amble?
1, covering about 29 hectares of the town. The largest is Amble.
When were Amble’s buildings listed?
The first in 1949; the most, 17, in 1988.
How old are the homes in Amble?
23% of homes were built before 1919 and 32% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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