767 listed buildings, 9 of them Grade I

Church of St MaryGrade I listedMidland Railway StationGrade II* listedWaterworks Pumping StationGrade II listedVictoria Centre Clock TowerGrade II listedGuildhall and Associated CavesGrade II listed+61See all photos

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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).

Market Street12 listed

Castle Gate11 listed · 1 II*

High Pavement11 listed

Mansfield Road11 listed

Bridlesmith Gate9 listed

Stoney Street9 listed

Long Row8 listed · 1 II*

St James' Street8 listed

Carlton Street7 listed

Derby Road7 listed

Low Pavement6 listed · 1 II*

St James' Terrace5 listed

Of the 767 entries, 219 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 44 entries were listed in 1952, 5 of the 9 Grade I buildings among them. 407 came in 1995. Only 17 have been added in the last 15 years.

9 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Caves at Drury Hill

Caves under Nos 3-7 Middle Pavement

Cellar under No 8, Castle Gate

Coal mining remains at Broad Oak Farm

Lenton Priory

MedievalMedieval city wall

Nottingham Castle

Rock cut houses N of Castle Boulevard

Rock cut houses S of Nottingham Castle

9 registered parks and gardens

Bagthorpe GardensGrade II*

Church CemeteryGrade II*

General CemeteryGrade II

Highfields ParkGrade II*

Hunger Hill Gardens, Stonepit Coppice Gardens and Gorseyclose GardensGrade II*

Jewish Burial Ground, North Sherwood StreetGrade II

Memorial Gardens, NottinghamGrade II

Nottingham ArboretumGrade II*

Wollaton HallGrade II*

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.

Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland

Paul Sandby

George Green

William Samuel Henson

Philip James Bailey

John Russell Hind

William Booth

N. R. Pogson

Edward Henry Howard

Harry Bolus

Fred Beardsley

Herbert Kilpin

Julia Bell

Frederick Chapman

Arthur Pink

Ethel Doidge

Albert Ball

Alister Hardy

Alma Reville

Constance Jeans

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William Booth1829–1912 · British Methodist preacher (1829-1912)

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George Green1793–1841 · British mathematical physicist (*1793 – †1841)

John Russell Hind1823–1895 · English astronomer

Alma Reville1899–1982 · English film editor and screenwriter (1899–1982)

N. R. Pogson1829–1891 · British astronomer (1829–1891)

Herbert Kilpin1870–1916 · English footballer (1870–1916)

Paul Sandby1725–1809 · British artist (1725-1809)

Philip James Bailey1816–1902 · British writer and poet (1816–1902)

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

The official list counts 767 listed buildings in Nottingham, 9 of them Grade I, including Wollaton Hall. Nottingham Castle Ducal Mansion sits at the heart of it all, with 4 of the town’s Grade I buildings within 400 m. On Market Street alone there are 12 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 31 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973.

Of the whole list, 51% are houses, terraces and villas. William Booth (1829), George Green (1793) and John Russell Hind (1823) are among the 301 people born here before 1900. It also has 9 scheduled monuments, the archaeology and ruins the law protects. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has 9 Grade I buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 13); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 19% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.