Church · listed 1965All Saints' ChurchOn the list as Church of All Saints
Whitelands Farmhouse and 2 Main Road · Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0DHistory Grade
History of Cotgrave · Historic England
11 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Cotgrave’s built-up area, 14 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 10 of Cotgrave’s listed buildings. 2.5% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. Cotgrave grades D for history: #39 of 49 in Nottinghamshire.
Listed buildings
11
14 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
2.5%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Cotgrave in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Acacia HouseGrade II listed
Lychgate and Attached Walls to CemeteryGrade II listed
The LimesGrade II listed
Village CrossGrade II listed
The Old Rectory and Attached GarageGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos 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 Cotgrave’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade I
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 5neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
11 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*10 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. 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).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Cotgrave
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
10 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 10 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
How the list grew
More than half of Cotgrave’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 8
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1965, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 8 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Cotgrave grades D for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (13 points, 17 per 10,000 residents)More than 35% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (2.5%)More than 4% of UK towns
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.
Homes by age
2.5% of Cotgrave’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
1.9%
Before 1900
0.5%
1900–18
1.2%
1919–29
0.3%
1930s
0.3%
1945–54
17%
1955–64
24%
1965–72
26%
1973–82
9.7%
1983–92
3.4%
1993–99
2%
2000–08
2.5%
2009–15
11%
2016–25
CotgraveEngland & Wales
1.9% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 26% 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 (8 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
3 notable people born in Cotgrave before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
William Upton
Elinor Mordaunt
Ernest Hayes
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Elinor Mordaunt1872–1942 · British writer
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William Upton1804–1867 · English cricketer (1804-1867)
EH
Ernest Hayes1898–1938 · British soldier
Everyone born in Cotgrave → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Cotgrave has the 92nd most Grade I buildings of 765 towns its size
Places of 5,000–12,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Cotgrave1
#497 of 765for listed buildings per resident (14 per 10,000). Brecon, Rye and Dartmouth lead.
91 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Cotgrave
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cotgrave | 7,794 | 11 | 1 | D |
| Cropwell Bishop | 1,903 | 12 | 1 | B− |
| Radcliffe on Trent | 7,205 | 8 | 0 | C− |
| Tollerton | 1,976 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Gamston (Rushcliffe) | 2,171 | 1 | 0 | D− |
| Keyworth | 6,822 | 12 | 1 | C− |
| Edwalton | 4,762 | 6 | 0 | D |
| West Bridgford | 36,489 | 13 | 0 | C+ |
In brief
Cotgrave in brief
Cotgrave has 11 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Whitelands Farmhouse and 2 Main Road. Only 91 of the 765 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Elinor Mordaunt (1872), William Upton (1804) and Ernest Hayes (1898) were all born here before 1900.
Its homes are mostly newer: 2.5% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1986: 8 of 11. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Cotgrave’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Cotgrave?
Historic England lists 11 buildings inside Cotgrave’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 10 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Cotgrave?
One: Church of All Saints.
When were Cotgrave’s buildings listed?
The first in 1965; the most, 8, in 1986.
Who was born in Cotgrave?
Among people born before 1900: Elinor Mordaunt (1872), William Upton (1804) and Ernest Hayes (1898).
How old are the homes in Cotgrave?
2.5% of homes were built before 1919 and 4% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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