103 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Moat HouseGrade II* listedAll Saints ChurchGrade II* listedThree Tuns HotelGrade II listedOdeon CinemaGrade II listedFour Oaks Methodist ChurchGrade II listed+2See 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 103 entries, 42 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 18 entries were listed in 1949, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 55 came in 1976, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 4 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.

1 registered park or garden

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.

3% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 21% 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 (151 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

James Luttrell

Thomas Bock

Janet Millett

John Wells

Francis Chavasse

Thomas Frederick Chavasse

Leonard Johnston Wills

Thomas Leo Parker

Eric Crockford

Lucy Wills

Arthur Deakin

Harry Bates

William Genders

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EC

Eric Crockford1888–1958 · Field hockey player (1888-1958)

Lucy Wills1888–1964 · British physician and hematologist (1888-1964)

Thomas Bock1790–1855 · English Australian artist, engraver, photographer, and convict (1790-…

LW

Leonard Johnston Wills1884–1979 · British geologist

AD

Arthur Deakin1890–1955 · Trade Union official

HB

Harry Bates1890– · British footballer (1890-?)

WG

William Genders1890–1971 · Cyclist

Francis Chavasse1846–1928 · Anglican bishop (1846-1928)

Everyone born in Royal Sutton Coldfield → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Royal Sutton Coldfield has 103 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Holy Trinity Church, Sutton Coldfield. High Street alone has 15 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973. Of the whole list, 71% are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 13 people born here before 1900, the best known include Eric Crockford (1888), Lucy Wills (1888) and Thomas Bock (1790). Its homes are mostly newer: 9.4% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1976: 55 of 103. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Grade I building, 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.