IChurch · listed 1953Church of St BartholomewPhoto: Walter Baxter · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Whittingham · Historic England
Old homes in Whittingham: 54% built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Whittingham has 4 times the share. Historic England lists 33 buildings inside Whittingham’s built-up area, 1,447 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
33
1,447 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
54%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Whittingham
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 Whittingham’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
33 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*31 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 Whittingham
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.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Whittingham
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*House · listed 1953Whittingham Tower and Attached CottagePhoto: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
The largest group of Whittingham’s listed buildings is churches and chapels
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Churches, chapels & priories16
Houses, terraces & villas8
Walls, gates & bridges3
Public & civic buildings3
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Inns, shops & warehouses1
8 entries (24%) are houses, terraces and villas. 16 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
31 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 31 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Bridge over River AlnCastle FarmhouseChurchyard Wall and Gateways South of Church of St BartholomewCollingwood Headstone Circa 2 Yards South of Church of St BartholomewFforster, Embleton and Hall Headstones Circa 12 Yards South of Church of St BartholomewFoggan Headstone Circa 10 Yards South of Church of St BartholomewFountain Circa 30 Yards South of Church of St BartholomewGarage and Shed in Garden of LeasideGibson Headstone Circa 8 Yards North East of Church of St BartholomewHeadstone Circa 15 Yards East of Church of St. BartholomewHeadstone Circa 2 Yards South of Church of St BartholomewHeadstone Circa 5 Yards South of Church of St BartholomewHeadstone Circa 7 Yards North West of Church of St BartholomewHole in the WallMoody Headstone Circa 3 Yards South of Church of St BartholomewNaisbet Headstone Circa 5 Yards South East of Church of St BartholomewNorthumbria Police Expedition CentrePair of Headstones to Patterson Circa 8 Yards West of Church of St BartholomewRavensworth Statue and FountainRitchie Headstone Circa 10 Yards South of Church of St BartholomewSwanson and Archbold Headstone Circa 12 Yards North East of Church of St BartholomewThe Castle InnThe Old Butcher's Shop and Attached OutbuilingsThe Old VicarageTodd Headstone Circa 3 Yards East of Church of St BartholomewVardy Headstone Circa 15 Yards West of Church of St BartholomewVillage Farm HouseVillage Pant or WellWark CottageWest End CottageWhittingham War Memorial Cross
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 68% of Whittingham
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Whittingham 197215 ha
15 hain conservation areas, of 22 ha inside the built-up area.
33 of the 33 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 Whittingham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 28
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 4 entries were listed in 1953, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 28 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
54% of Whittingham’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
53%
Before 1900
0.8%
1900–18
0.8%
1919–29
3.9%
1930s
5.4%
1945–54
3.9%
1955–64
2.3%
1965–72
3.9%
1973–82
7%
1983–92
5.4%
1993–99
4.7%
2000–08
1.6%
2009–15
7.8%
2016–25
WhittinghamEngland & Wales
53% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 7.8% 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 Whittingham
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whittingham | 228 | 33 | 1 | — |
| Rothbury | 2,025 | 35 | 0 | A |
| Alnwick | 8,432 | 249 | 5 | A |
| Longframlington | 1,357 | 16 | 1 | A− |
| Shilbottle | 1,787 | 10 | 0 | C+ |
| Felton | 1,270 | 37 | 1 | A |
| Longhoughton | 1,173 | 12 | 1 | B+ |
| Wooler | 1,930 | 30 | 0 | A− |
In brief
Whittingham in brief
Old houses are part of Whittingham’s character: 54% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 33 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1972. The big year was 1986, when 28 of the 33 went on the list.
Questions about Whittingham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Whittingham?
Historic England lists 33 buildings inside Whittingham’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 31 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Whittingham?
One: Church of St Bartholomew.
How many conservation areas are there in Whittingham?
1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is Whittingham.
When were Whittingham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1953; the most, 28, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Whittingham?
54% of homes were built before 1919 and 58% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Whittingham has no History Grade.
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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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