198 listed buildings, 5 of them Grade I

The Manor OfficeGrade I listedThe Moot HallGrade I listedOvertrack Signal Box to East of Hexham Railway StationGrade II listedThe Royal HotelGrade II listedHexham Primary Infants and Junior SchoolGrade II listed+30See all photos

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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).

Hencotes13 listed

Market Street11 listed · 2 II*

St Mary's Chare10 listed

Fore Street8 listed

Market Place8 listed · 2 II*

Battlehill5 listed

Gilesgate5 listed

Hall Stile Bank5 listed

Priestpopple4 listed · 1 II*

Hallgate3 listed

Holy Island3 listed

Of the 198 entries, 87 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 53 entries were listed in 1951, 5 of the 5 Grade I buildings among them. 125 came in 1976, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Hexham Manor Office (or gaol)

MedievalRemains of medieval priory and Anglo-Saxon monastery under and around Hexham Abbey and its precincts

1 registered park or garden

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.

16% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 16% 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.

Aelred of Rievaulx

William Gibson

William Hewson

Edward Rotheram

Joseph Parker

Lewy Pattinson

Helen Jackson

Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne

William Peel

James Hutton Kidd

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Jack Dodds

Albert Chester

William Robb

Arthur Straker

James Milne Robb

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Aelred of Rievaulx1110–1166 · English monk, author and saint (1110–1167)

William Hewson1739–1774 · British physiologist

William Peel1875–1945 · British colonial administrator (1875-1945)

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson1878–1962 · British poet (1878–1962)

HJ

Helen Jackson1867–1940 · British tennis player (1867–1940)

AC

Albert Chester1886–1943 · English professional football player (1886-1943)

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William Gibson1738–1821 · English Roman Catholic bishop

Joseph Parker1830–1902 · English Congregational clergyman (1830-1902)

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

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Hexham: per resident it has more than 91% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 198 listed buildings, 5 of them Grade I. Its housing is old: 27% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Its Grade I buildings cluster together: 5 of them stand within 400 m of Hexham Abbey.

Only 23 of the 655 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1972. Most entries on the list, 68%, are houses, terraces and villas. Beyond that, it also has 2 scheduled monuments.