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History of Riding Mill · Historic England

24 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Riding Mill’s built-up area, 299 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Riding Mill is Grade II. 41% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
24
299 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
41%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Riding Mill’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

24 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*24 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.

What’s protected

The largest group of Riding Mill’s listed buildings is homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas11
Churches, chapels & priories5
Walls, gates & bridges4
Public & civic buildings2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Inns, shops & warehouses1

11 entries (46%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 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.

Grade II

24 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 24 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
How the list grew

More than half of Riding Mill’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1986 · 21
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1982. 21 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

41% of Riding Mill’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

36%
Before 1900
5.9%
1900–18
5.9%
1919–29
5.9%
1930s
2.5%
1945–54
11%
1955–64
11%
1965–72
4.8%
1973–82
7.3%
1983–92
4.8%
1993–99
2.5%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
2.5%
2016–25
Riding MillEngland & Wales

36% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 11% 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.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Riding Mill

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Riding Mill802240—
Corbridge2,888613A
Stocksfield1,94440C+
Ovingham1,155161B
Prudhoe10,28560D
Hexham10,9451985A+
Acomb1,155160A−
Wylam1,661100B+
In brief

Riding Mill in brief

More of Riding Mill’s homes are old than in most places: 41% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 24 listed buildings. The big year was 1986, when 21 of the 24 went on the list.

Questions about Riding Mill’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Riding Mill?

Historic England lists 24 buildings inside Riding Mill’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 24 Grade II.

When were Riding Mill’s buildings listed?

The first in 1982; the most, 21, in 1986.

How old are the homes in Riding Mill?

41% of homes were built before 1919 and 53% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Riding Mill has no History Grade.

© 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.