House · listed 1962St Marys Rectory
Church of St Mary · Photo: Dave Kelly · CC BY-SA 2.0C−History Grade
History of Rawmarsh · Historic England
5 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Rawmarsh’s built-up area, 2.6 for every 10,000 residents. 4 of Rawmarsh’s listed buildings are Grade II. 16% of its homes were built before 1919. Rawmarsh grades C− for history: #38 of 63 in South Yorkshire.
Listed buildings
5
2.6 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
16%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Rawmarsh
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 Rawmarsh’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 13neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 41% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
5 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*4 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. 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).
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Rawmarsh
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
4 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 4 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
History Grade
Rawmarsh grades C− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (6 points, 3 per 10,000 residents)More than 16% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (16%)More than 50% of UK towns
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.
Born here
8 notable people born in Rawmarsh before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Frederick Townsend
John Frith
Worton David
John Bisby
Jack Foster
Philip Bratley
Alonzo Drake
Allen Foster
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Alonzo Drake1884–1919 · English footballer and county cricketer (1884-1919)
PB
Philip Bratley1880–1962 · English footballer (1880-1962)
JB
John Bisby1876–1945 · English professional footballer (1876-1945)
JF
Jack Foster1877–1946 · English footballer (1877-1946)
AF
Allen Foster1887–1916 · Footballer (1887-1916)
WD
Worton David1872–1940 · Songwriter and music publisher
FT
Frederick Townsend1822–1905 · Botanist (1822-1905)
JF
John Frith1837–1904 · British trade unionist
Everyone born in Rawmarsh → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
How Rawmarsh compares with 496 towns its size
Places of 11,000–30,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Rawmarsh0
#463 of 496for listed buildings per resident (3 per 10,000). Bridport, Whitby and Lewes lead.
235 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Rawmarsh
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rawmarsh | 18,892 | 5 | 0 | C− |
| Greasbrough | 3,859 | 6 | 0 | C |
| Swinton | 15,911 | 10 | 0 | C− |
| Thrybergh and Dalton | 5,858 | 4 | 0 | D |
| Wath upon Dearne | 16,962 | 24 | 1 | C+ |
| Rotherham | 71,535 | 57 | 3 | B− |
| Mexborough | 15,560 | 3 | 1 | C+ |
| Brampton | 4,620 | 2 | 0 | D |
In brief
Rawmarsh in brief
The official list counts 5 listed buildings in Rawmarsh, including Church of St Mary. Alonzo Drake (1884), Philip Bratley (1880) and John Bisby (1876) are among the 8 people born here before 1900. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 16% of UK towns. Most towns its size have more Grade I buildings: the typical one has 0. The rest is about typical: the list grew between 1962 and 1985; and 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Rawmarsh’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Rawmarsh?
Historic England lists 5 buildings inside Rawmarsh’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 4 Grade II.
Who was born in Rawmarsh?
Among people born before 1900: Alonzo Drake (1884), Philip Bratley (1880), John Bisby (1876), Jack Foster (1877) and Allen Foster (1887).
How old are the homes in Rawmarsh?
16% of homes were built before 1919 and 31% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
© 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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