44 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Beeston Railway Station, including the canopy to platform one and shelters on platforms one and twoGrade II listedAnglo-Scotian Mills, Block Occupied by Ariel Pressings LimitedGrade II listedThe Crown Inn and Adjoining StablesGrade II listedChurch of St John the BaptistGrade II listedThe AlmshousesGrade II listed+4See 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.

c. 1911

c. 1912

c. 1930

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 5 entries were listed in 1949. 27 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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.

6.3% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 21% 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 (130 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Henry Ireton

Samuel Wood Brooks

Thomas Bignall

Frederick Thornhill

William Foster

Albert Flewitt

John Fellows

William Gidley Emmett

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Henry Ireton1611–1651 · English politician (1611-1651)

TB

Thomas Bignall1842–1898 · English cricketer (1842-1898)

FT

Frederick Thornhill1846–1876 · English cricketer (1846-1876)

WF

William Foster1859–1944 · English cricketer, born 1859 (1859–1944)

AF

Albert Flewitt1872–1943 · English footballer (1872-1943)

JF

John Fellows1881–1942 · English cricketer (1881-1942)

SB

Samuel Wood Brooks1840–1915 · Australian politician (1840-1915)

William Gidley Emmett1887–1985 · British industrial chemist, educationalist and academic author

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

Beeston has 44 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St. Mary's Church, Attenborough. Its older streets lie in 7 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970. Of the whole list, 57% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 8 people born here before 1900, the best known include Henry Ireton (1611), Thomas Bignall (1842) and Frederick Thornhill (1846).

Its homes are mostly newer: 9.3% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1987: 27 of 44. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.