119 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

Minster Church of St GeorgeGrade I listedChurch of St WilfridGrade II* listedWater Tower at Former Br WorksGrade II listedThe Magdalen HotelGrade II listedStation Booking Hall and OfficesGrade II listed+8See 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.

c. 1808

1848

c. 1947

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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 119 entries, 52 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 17 entries were listed in 1950, 2 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 54 came in 1988, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 5 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

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

RomanWall of Roman fort

1 registered park or garden

The Dell, DoncasterGrade 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.

John Lacy

Elizabeth Raffald

Harry Stokes

Benjamin Boothby

John Frederick Herring, Jr.

William Morley Punshon

John Francis Bentley

George Frederick Armstrong

Frank Lockwood

Clara Cheeseman

Frank Byron Jevons

Ezra Bartlett

Thomas Hill Easterfield

Ethel Turner

Harry Thickett

Teddy Daw

Len Goodson

Reginald Rickman

Norman Hallows

Barbara Euphan Todd

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Ethel Turner1870–1958 · Australian writer (1872–1958)

Norman Hallows1886–1968 · English athlete (1886-1968)

John Francis Bentley1839–1902 · English ecclesiastical architect (1839–1902)

Elizabeth Raffald1733–1781 · English author, innovator, entrepreneur (1733-1781)

Harry Thickett1873–1920 · English footballer and manager (1873-1920)

Frank Lockwood1846–1897 · British politician

Frank Byron Jevons1858–1936 · British academic

Benjamin Boothby1803–1868 · Australian judge (1803-1868)

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

The official list counts 119 listed buildings in Doncaster, 2 of them Grade I, including St George's Minster. High Street alone has 17 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 11 conservation areas, the first designated in 1974.

Of the whole list, 58% are houses, terraces and villas. Ethel Turner (1870), Norman Hallows (1886) and John Francis Bentley (1839) are among the 27 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, it has 2 Grade I buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 2); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.