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The Church of St John the Baptist at Ruyton-XI-TownsPhoto: Peter Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Ruyton-XI-Towns · Historic England

17 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Ruyton-XI-Towns’s built-up area, 179 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. 36% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
17
179 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
36%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Ruyton-XI-Towns’s history is

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

Churchyard cross, St John the Baptist's Church, scheduled monumentTower keep castle immediately west of St John the Baptist's Church, scheduled monument
Scheduled monument

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

17 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*17 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

17 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 17 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
How the list grew

More than half of Ruyton-XI-Towns’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987

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

1987 · 9
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The first 3 entries were listed in 1952. 9 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.

2 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.

Homes by age

36% of Ruyton-XI-Towns’s homes were built before 1919

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

35%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
0%
1919–29
2%
1930s
2%
1945–54
2%
1955–64
13%
1965–72
3.7%
1973–82
3.7%
1983–92
20%
1993–99
13%
2000–08
3.7%
2009–15
2%
2016–25
Ruyton-XI-TownsEngland & Wales

35% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1993–99, which added 20% 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 (8 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Ruyton-XI-Towns

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Ruyton-XI-Towns952170—
Baschurch2,007180B
Bomere Heath1,36400C−
Whittington1,618101B
Morda1,97650C−
Pant1,17340C+
Oswestry17,5001371A−
Ellesmere4,2681061A
In brief

Ruyton-XI-Towns in brief

More of Ruyton-XI-Towns’s homes are old than in most places: 36% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 17 listed buildings. The big year was 1987, when 9 of the 17 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 2 scheduled monuments.

Questions about Ruyton-XI-Towns’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Ruyton-XI-Towns?

Historic England lists 17 buildings inside Ruyton-XI-Towns’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 17 Grade II.

Are there scheduled monuments in Ruyton-XI-Towns?

Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Churchyard cross, St John the Baptist's Church and Tower keep castle immediately west of St John the Baptist's Church.

When were Ruyton-XI-Towns’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 9, in 1987.

How old are the homes in Ruyton-XI-Towns?

36% of homes were built before 1919 and 38% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Ruyton-XI-Towns has no History Grade.

© 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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