II*Church · listed 1960Church of St John the BaptistPhoto: Beryl Allcoat · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Brinklow · Historic England
22 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Brinklow’s built-up area, 196 for every 10,000 residents. 21 of Brinklow’s listed buildings are Grade II. 34% of its homes were built before 1919. Brinklow grades A for history.
Listed buildings
22
196 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
34%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Brinklow
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 Brinklow’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
22 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*21 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*
The Grade II* listed building in Brinklow
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Brinklow’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas17
Churches, chapels & priories4
Street furniture1
17 entries (77%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
21 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 21 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Chest Tomb Approximately 7 Metres North of Tower of Church of St John the BaptistDunsmore HouseHeadstone Approximately 17 Metres South of Church of St John the BaptistHeadstone Approximately 18 Metres South of Church of St John the BaptistK6 Telephone KioskThatched CottageThe LodgeThe Old Rectory1, The Crescent13 and 15, Broad Street17, 19 and 21, The Crescent17, Broad Street25, Coventry Road31, 33 and 35, The Crescent37, The Crescent44 and 46, The Crescent46, Broad Street5 and 7, Rugby Road50, Broad Street69, Broad Street71-73, Broad Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Brinklow
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
No data available for publication by HE40 ha
40 hain conservation areas, of 40 ha inside the built-up area.
22 of the 22 listed buildings stand in one.
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.
How the list grew
More than half of Brinklow’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 18
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1960. 18 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Brinklow grades A for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (23 points, 205 per 10,000 residents)More than 71% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (34%)More than 89% 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.
Homes by age
34% of Brinklow’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
34%
Before 1900
1.2%
1900–18
6%
1919–29
2.5%
1930s
6.4%
1945–54
6.6%
1955–64
16%
1965–72
8.9%
1973–82
3.3%
1983–92
6.4%
1993–99
6%
2000–08
0.8%
2009–15
2.5%
2016–25
BrinklowEngland & Wales
34% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 16% 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 (29 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Brinklow
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brinklow | 1,121 | 22 | 0 | A |
| Binley Woods | 2,569 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Wolston | 2,693 | 13 | 1 | B− |
| Long Lawford | 4,369 | 3 | 0 | D |
| Cawston | 6,475 | 2 | 0 | D− |
| Stretton-on-Dunsmore | 1,176 | 10 | 0 | B− |
| Ryton-on-Dunsmore | 1,829 | 3 | 0 | C− |
| Rugby | 78,130 | 133 | 3 | B |
In brief
Brinklow in brief
Old houses are part of Brinklow’s character: 34% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 22 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it.
Most entries on the list, 77%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1986, when 18 of the 22 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Brinklow’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Brinklow?
Historic England lists 22 buildings inside Brinklow’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 21 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Brinklow?
1, covering about 40 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Brinklow’s buildings listed?
The first in 1960; the most, 18, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Brinklow?
34% of homes were built before 1919 and 42% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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 · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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