19 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

Church of St Mary the VirginGrade I listedClifton HallGrade I listedClifton SchoolGrade II listedOld RectoryGrade II listedDovecote 600m east of Home FarmScheduled monument+2See all photos

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c. 1866

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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).

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 10 entries were listed in 1954, 2 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. Only 0 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.

Dovecote 600m east of Home Farm

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.

0.3% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 55% 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 (20 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

George Wootton

John Butler

John Moss

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JB

John Butler1863–1945 · English cricketer (1863-1945)

George Wootton1834–1924 · English cricketer (1834-1924)

JM

John Moss1864–1950 · English cricketer and umpire (1864-1950)

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

The official list counts 19 listed buildings in Clifton, 2 of them Grade I, including St. Mary's Church. Only 51 of the 439 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. John Butler (1863), George Wootton (1834) and John Moss (1864) were all born here before 1900.

Its homes are mostly newer: 0.4% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1954, when 10 of the 19 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.