32 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

Church of St CuthbertGrade II* listedThe Wallaw CinemaGrade II listedPair of Chapels in Cowpen CemeteryGrade II listedFort on Blyth LinksGrade II listedHarbour Commissioners OfficesGrade II listed+3See 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.

1895

1895

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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).

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 4 entries were listed in 1950. 16 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 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.

Ed Walker

Harry Stenhouse

Bob Hewitson

Jack Cowell

Eddie King

William Jonas

Andy York

Bob Hutchinson

Walter Casson

George Robson

George Allon

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EK

Eddie King1890– · Association football player

GA

George Allon1899–1983 · English footballer (1899–1983)

BH

Bob Hewitson1884–1957 · English footballer and manager (1884-1957)

JC

Jack Cowell1887– · Association football player

Ed Walker1874–1947 · English baseball player

WJ

William Jonas1890–1916 · English footballer (1890-1916)

AY

Andy York1894–1977 · English footballer (1894-1977)

BH

Bob Hutchinson1894–1971 · English footballer (1894-1971)

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

The official list counts 32 listed buildings in Blyth, including Church of St Cuthbert. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas. Eddie King (1890), George Allon (1899) and Bob Hewitson (1884) are among the 11 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.