48 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St AndrewGrade I listedAston HallGrade II* listedLloyd's BankGrade II listedThe UplandsGrade II listedThe Wheatsheaf Public HouseGrade II listed+1See all photos

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.

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).

Of the 48 entries, 23 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 16 entries were listed in 1955, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 27 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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.

Hannah Cullwick

James Adlington

Edwin Bennett

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Hannah Cullwick1833–1909 · British writer

JA

James Adlington1872– · Footballer (1872-?)

EB

Edwin Bennett1893–1929 · English cricketer (1893-1929)

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

Shifnal has 48 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Andrew. Only 93 of the 699 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On Market Place alone there are 11 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1978.

Most entries on the list, 71%, are houses, terraces and villas. Hannah Cullwick (1833), James Adlington (1872) and Edwin Bennett (1893) were all born here before 1900. The big year was 1984, when 27 of the 48 went on the list. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 11% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.