Barn and Attached Cattle Shelter and Wall at Church Farm · Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.028 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Farnsfield’s built-up area, 87 for every 10,000 residents. All of Farnsfield’s listed buildings are Grade II. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 17% of its homes were built before 1919. Farnsfield grades B for history: #8 of 49 in Nottinghamshire.
Farnsfield in 6 photos
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The Bus Stop Pot ShopGrade II listed
Burgess House and Burgess CottageGrade II listed
Wheatsheaf CottageGrade II listed
Farnsfield War MemorialGrade II listed
The Old School HouseGrade 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.
Where Farnsfield’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.
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.
Most of Farnsfield’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
15 entries (54%) 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.
28 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 28 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 23% of Farnsfield
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
28 of the 28 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.
More than half of Farnsfield’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 3 entries were listed in 1961. 21 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Farnsfield grades B for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
Listed buildings in the places around Farnsfield
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farnsfield | 3,217 | 28 | 0 | B |
| Bilsthorpe | 3,490 | 4 | 1 | D |
| Blidworth | 4,295 | 5 | 0 | D |
| Rainworth | 7,990 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Southwell | 7,405 | 220 | 2 | A |
| Calverton | 7,318 | 15 | 0 | C− |
| Ravenshead | 5,370 | 2 | 0 | D− |
| Woodborough | 1,649 | 16 | 0 | B |
Farnsfield in brief
Farnsfield has 28 listed buildings, including Barn and Attached Cattle Shelter and Wall at Church Farm. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 54%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1986, when 21 of the 28 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Augustus Charles Gregory (1819) and Richard Howitt (1864) were born here before 1900; and 17% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Farnsfield’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Farnsfield?
Historic England lists 28 buildings inside Farnsfield’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 28 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Farnsfield?
1, covering about 23 hectares of the town. The largest is Farnsfield.
When were Farnsfield’s buildings listed?
The first in 1961; the most, 21, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Farnsfield?
17% of homes were built before 1919 and 24% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
© 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 · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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