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History of Kimberley · Historic England

3 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Kimberley’s built-up area, 6.7 for every 10,000 residents. All of Kimberley’s listed buildings are Grade II. 26% of its homes were built before 1919. Kimberley grades C for history: #25 of 49 in Nottinghamshire.

Listed buildings
3
6.7 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
26%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Kimberley

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 Kimberley’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

0 of 5neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 40% were built before 1919.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

3 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*3 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 II

3 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 3 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 8.9% of Kimberley

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Kimberley 198912 ha
12 hain conservation areas, of 130 ha inside the built-up area.

1 of the 3 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.

History Grade

Kimberley grades C for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (3 points, 7 per 10,000 residents)More than 14% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (26%)More than 77% 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

26% of Kimberley’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

20%
Before 1900
5.8%
1900–18
2.7%
1919–29
7.2%
1930s
7.1%
1945–54
6%
1955–64
5.4%
1965–72
19%
1973–82
15%
1983–92
2.6%
1993–99
3.2%
2000–08
0.3%
2009–15
5.4%
2016–25
KimberleyEngland & Wales

20% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 19% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Born here

10 notable people born in Kimberley before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Mordecai Sherwin
William Bryan
William Wilkinson
William Harris
John Drury
Harry Clay
George Chambers
Clem Jackson
Ben Lilley
Ike Bird
18501875190019251950
Mordecai Sherwin
Mordecai Sherwin1851–1910 · Cricketer (1851-1910)
HC
Harry Clay1881–1964 · English footballer (1881-1964)
GC
George Chambers1884–1947 · English cricketer (1884-1947)
IB
Ike Bird1895–1984 · Footballer (1895-1984)
WW
William Wilkinson1859–1940 · English cricketer, born 1859
WH
William Harris1864–1949 · English cricketer, born 1864
JD
John Drury1874–1919 · English cricketer (1874-1919)
CJ
Clem Jackson1886–1960 · Association football player (1886-1960)

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Kimberley

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Kimberley4,46730C
Nuthall and Watnall9,581160C−
Awsworth2,44430C
Eastwood18,890230C+
Ilkeston38,723241B−
Hucknall35,848130C−
Heanor24,264110C+
Trowell2,16560C−
In brief

Kimberley in brief

Old houses are part of Kimberley’s character: 26% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 3 listed buildings, including The Maltings of Former Hardy and Hanson Brewery. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1989.

Mordecai Sherwin (1851), Harry Clay (1881) and George Chambers (1884) are among the 10 people born here before 1900. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 14% of UK towns. The rest is about typical: the list grew between 1985 and 2008.

Questions about Kimberley’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Kimberley?

Historic England lists 3 buildings inside Kimberley’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 3 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Kimberley?

1, covering about 12 hectares of the town. The largest is Kimberley.

Who was born in Kimberley?

Among people born before 1900: Mordecai Sherwin (1851), Harry Clay (1881), George Chambers (1884), Ike Bird (1895) and William Wilkinson (1859).

How old are the homes in Kimberley?

26% of homes were built before 1919 and 36% 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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