60 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of Saint AlphegeGrade I listedHob's Moat, 60m north of Castle LaneScheduled monumentThe Malt Shovel InnGrade II listedGoldfinger HouseGrade II listedShirley War MemorialGrade II listed+5See 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).

High Street8 listed · 1 II*

Warwick Road5 listed

The Square3 listed

Of the 60 entries, 23 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 13 entries were listed in 1949, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 26 came in 1976, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 11 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.

Hob's Moat, 60m north of Castle Lane

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.

0.7% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 23% 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 (547 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Robert Fielding

George Harding

Arthur Prince Chattock

Charles Benbow

Harold Webbe

Alfred Hill

Gilbert Walker

Harold Harrison

Adrian Tonks

Bernard Quaife

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AH

Alfred Hill1887–1959 · English cricketer 1887-1959

GH

George Harding1788–1860 · British Army general

CB

Charles Benbow1870–1912 · Cricketer (1870-1912)

GW

Gilbert Walker1888–1952 · Cricketer (1888-1952)

Robert Fielding1651–1712 · English bigamist and rake

HW

Harold Webbe1885–1965 · British politician (1885-1965)

HH

Harold Harrison1889–1940 · English rugby union footballer

BQ

Bernard Quaife1899–1984 · English cricketer (1899-1984)

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

Solihull has 60 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St. Alphege's Church. High Street alone has 8 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 60%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 10 people born here before 1900, the best known include Alfred Hill (1887), George Harding (1788) and Charles Benbow (1870). Its homes are mostly newer: 2.5% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The rest is about typical: 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.