IChurch · listed 1959St Luke's ChurchOn the list as Church of St LukePhoto: Mike White · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Row17 · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Hodnet · Historic England
15 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Hodnet’s built-up area, 721 for every 10,000 residents. 14 of Hodnet’s listed buildings are Grade II. 38% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
15
721 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
38%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Hodnet
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. 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 Hodnet’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IPark or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
15 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*14 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 I
The Grade I listed building in Hodnet
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
14 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 14 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Hodnet CottageK6 Telephone Kiosk, Marchamley RoadLychgate Approximately 35 Metres to East of Church of Saint LukeThe CottageYe Hundred House1, Drayton Road1, Shrewsbury Street15, Drayton Road19, 20 and 21, Drayton Road2, Drayton Road22, Drayton Road24 and 25, Shrewsbury Road7, Church Street8, Drayton Road
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 45% of Hodnet
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Hodnet 197615 ha
15 hain conservation areas, of 34 ha inside the built-up area.
15 of the 15 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.
How the list grew
7 of Hodnet’s 15 listed buildings were added in 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1987 · 71959 · 6
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 6 entries were listed in 1959, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 7 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
Hodnet HallGrade II
Homes by age
38% of Hodnet’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
34%
Before 1900
2.3%
1900–18
5.7%
1919–29
5.7%
1930s
9.1%
1945–54
13%
1955–64
2.3%
1965–72
5.7%
1973–82
5.7%
1983–92
3.4%
1993–99
3.4%
2000–08
3.4%
2009–15
6.8%
2016–25
HodnetEngland & Wales
34% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 13% 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 (2 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
3 notable people born in Hodnet before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Rowland Hill
Richard Hill
George Campbell Macaulay
1500165018001950
GM
George Campbell Macaulay1852–1915 · English Classical scholar
Richard Hill1655–1727 · (1654-1727)
RH
Rowland Hill1495–1561 · English merchant and Lord Mayor of London;,(1495-1561)
Everyone born in Hodnet → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Hodnet
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hodnet | 208 | 15 | 1 | — |
| Market Drayton | 12,062 | 80 | 0 | B+ |
| Prees | 1,013 | 28 | 0 | A |
| Shawbury | 1,962 | 14 | 1 | B− |
| Prees Higher Heath | 1,226 | 0 | 0 | D |
| Wem | 6,287 | 89 | 0 | A− |
| Edgmond | 1,560 | 14 | 1 | B+ |
| Loggerheads | 2,523 | 3 | 0 | D |
In brief
Hodnet in brief
More of Hodnet’s homes are old than in most places: 38% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 15 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976. George Campbell Macaulay (1852), Richard Hill (1655) and Rowland Hill (1495) were all born here before 1900.
Questions about Hodnet’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Hodnet?
Historic England lists 15 buildings inside Hodnet’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 14 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Hodnet?
One: Church of St Luke.
How many conservation areas are there in Hodnet?
1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is Hodnet.
When were Hodnet’s buildings listed?
The first in 1959; the most, 7, in 1987.
Who was born in Hodnet?
Among people born before 1900: George Campbell Macaulay (1852), Richard Hill (1655) and Rowland Hill (1495).
How old are the homes in Hodnet?
38% of homes were built before 1919 and 48% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Hodnet has no History Grade.
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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 · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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