63 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade II*

Parish Church of St MaryGrade II* listedBank HouseGrade II* listedLaythropps AlmshousesGrade II listedCoach and Horses Public HouseGrade II listedConduit or Market CrossGrade 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 63 entries, 25 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 19 entries were listed in 1950. 34 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have 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.

Thomas Allen

Simon Degge

Robert Bakewell

Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner

Thomas Kynnersley

Lewis Hall

Thomas Rhodes

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Thomas Allen1540–1632 · English mathematician (c. 1540 – 1632)

Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner1742–1809 · Royal Navy admiral (1742–1809)

TR

Thomas Rhodes1874–1936 · Cricketer (1874-1936)

Simon Degge1612–1704 · British barrister

RB

Robert Bakewell1682–1752 · English smith (1682–1752)

Thomas Kynnersley1839–1874 · New Zealand politician

LH

Lewis Hall1860–1933 · Canadian politician

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

The official list counts 63 listed buildings in Uttoxeter, including St Mary the Virgin Church. On High Street alone there are 8 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Most entries on the list, 63%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Thomas Allen (1540), Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner (1742) and Thomas Rhodes (1874) are among the 7 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1973, when 34 of the 63 went on the list. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.