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History of Berriew · Cadw

Berriew: 45% of homes built before 1919

Against 15% in the typical town, Berriew has 3 times the share. Cadw lists 31 buildings inside Berriew’s built-up area, 1,076 for every 10,000 residents.

1Grade II*

Listed buildings

1,076 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

45%

typical UK town 15%

The map

Where Berriew’s history is

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

Grade II*

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

31 listed buildings by grade

0 Grade I1 Grade II*30 Grade II

Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings 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*

The Grade II* listed building in Berriew

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

House · listed 1953The Vicarage

What’s protected

Most of Berriew’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas19

Inns, shops & warehouses5

Walls, gates & bridges3

Memorials, crosses & tombs2

Churches, chapels & priories1

Public & civic buildings1

19 entries (61%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories.

Buildings are sorted by Cadw’s broad class for each building, else by words in its name; an entry named only by its address counts as a house.

Grade II

30 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 30 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 28% of Berriew

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

Berriew 19747 ha

7 hain conservation areas, of 23 ha inside the built-up area.

29 of the 31 listed buildings stand in one.

Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

How the list grew

More than half of Berriew’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1995

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1995 · 171953 · 13

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The first 13 entries were listed in 1953. 17 came in 1995. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

45% of Berriew’s homes were built before 1919

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

44%

Before 1900

1.5%

1900–18

2.9%

1919–29

2.9%

1930s

2.9%

1945–54

4.4%

1955–64

11%

1965–72

8.1%

1973–82

6.6%

1983–92

6.6%

1993–99

4.4%

2000–08

2.9%

2009–15

1.5%

2016–25

BerriewEngland & Wales

44% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 11% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Berriew

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Berriew	288	31	0	—
Welshpool	5,460	203	1	A⁺
Guilsfield	1,160	22	1	A⁻
Newtown	10,882	194	0	A⁻
Bishop's Castle	1,847	82	0	A⁺
Llanfyllin	1,118	80	0	A⁺
Minsterley	1,719	16	0	B

In brief

Berriew in brief

More of Berriew’s homes are old than in most places: 45% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 31 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1974. Of the whole list, 61% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1995: 17 of 31.

Questions about Berriew’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Berriew?

Cadw lists 31 buildings inside Berriew’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 30 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Berriew?

1, covering about 7 hectares of the town. The largest is Berriew.

When were Berriew’s buildings listed?

The first in 1953; the most, 17, in 1995.

How old are the homes in Berriew?

45% of homes were built before 1919 and 51% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Berriew has no History Grade.

Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, 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 · Cadw conservation areas via DataMapWales (October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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