IChurch · listed 1949St Thomas' ChurchOn the list as Parish Church of St ThomasPhoto: Richard Rogerson · CC BY-SA 2.0
Parish Church of St Thomas · Photo: Richard Rogerson · CC BY-SA 2.0B−History Grade
History of Stourbridge · Historic England
59 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Stourbridge’s built-up area, 10 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Stourbridge, 54 are Grade II. We have photos of 8 of its listed buildings and 2 old views of the town. 14% of its homes were built before 1919. Stourbridge grades B− for history: #7 of 35 in West Midlands.
Listed buildings
59
10 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
4
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
14%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Stourbridge in 10 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Old Swinford HospitalGrade II* listed
Stourbridge Quaker Meeting HouseGrade II* listed
The CastleGrade II listed
ViaductGrade II listed
Talbot HotelGrade II listed+5See all photosPhotos 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.
Through time
Stourbridge from 1903 to 1903
2 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1903
1903Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where Stourbridge’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
2 of 37neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 65% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
59 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I4 Grade II*54 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 I
The Grade I listed building in Stourbridge
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The 4 Grade II* listed buildings in Stourbridge
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Public · listed 1949Old Swinford HospitalPhoto: Brianboru100 · CC BY-SA 3.0
II*Church · listed 1975Friends' Meeting HouseOn the list as Stourbridge Quaker Meeting HousePhoto: Brianboru100 · CC BY-SA 3.0
II*Memorials · listed 1989Stourbridge War MemorialPhoto: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*House · listed 1983The Old FoundryPhoto: Rowzer77 · CC BY-SA 3.0
What’s protected
The largest group of Stourbridge’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas26
Public & civic buildings11
Churches, chapels & priories10
Walls, gates & bridges5
Inns, shops & warehouses4
Memorials, crosses & tombs3
26 entries (44%) are houses, terraces and villas. 10 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
54 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 54 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barclays BankChurch of England Primary SchoolChurch of St JamesChurch of St John the EvangelistClock TowerDennis HallDennis LodgeEntrance Turnstile Building at Stourbridge War Memorial Athletic GroundGate Piers and Wall at Old Swinford HospitalGates, Piers and Railings at Principal EntranceLye and Wollescote Cemetery ChapelMemorial Archway at Stourbridge War Memorial Athletic GroundPair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside County Court BuildingsParish Church of St MaryParish Church of St PeterPresbyterian ChapelRailings and Gatepiers in Front of the Church of St James, School and VicarageRiversideRoman Catholic Church of Our Lady and All SaintsSeven Stars Public HouseSt Thomas' VicarageStourbridge Canal WarehouseStourbridge College of ArtStourhurst HouseSwinford Old HallTalbot HotelThe CastleThe County CourtThe GaribaldiThe GroveThe Mitre InnThe Olde Corner ShoppeThe QuarryThe RectoryThe Town HallViaductVicarage to the Church of St JamesWalls to Former Dry DockWaterloo CottageWheelergateWollescote Hall1, Church Street116, High Street160, Lower High Street170,170A and 170B, Lower High Street176, Lower High Street177, Lower High Street4 and 6, Market Street4, Church Road40, New Road6-16, Church Road65, Market Street67-75, Market Street7, Lower High Street
Conservation areas
6 conservation areas cover 2.9% of Stourbridge
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Wollaston 199014 ha
Stourbridge Branch Canal (Canal Street) 198211 ha
High Street, Stourbridge 19756 ha
Love Lane, Oldswinford 19764 ha
Church Road, Oldswinford 19754 ha
Stourbridge Branch Canal (Amblecote) 19873 ha
42 hain conservation areas, of 1,452 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, High Street, Stourbridge and Church Road, Oldswinford, were designated in 1975; the newest, Wollaston, in 1990. 32 of the 59 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
21 of Stourbridge’s 59 listed buildings were added in 1949
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1949 · 211971 · 91989 · 7
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 21 entries were listed in 1949, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. Only 4 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Stourbridge grades B− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (65 points, 11 per 10,000 residents)More than 51% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (14%)More than 40% 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
37 notable people born in Stourbridge before 1900
The 20 best known on one timeline, earliest first.
Samuel Parkes
Theophilus Harris Davies
Annette Beveridge
Henry Hill
Clement Lindley Wragge
George Layton
Joseph Bache
Fred Crump
Albert Hall
Percy Wyer
Joseph Westwood
Edward Felix Baxter
Alf Bishop
Arthur Smith
Edward Lindsay Ince
William Pearsall
Ernie Edwards
Harry Perry
Cecil Blakemore
Fred Foxall
175017751800182518501875190019251950
Joseph Bache1880–1960 · English footballer (1880-1960)
Annette Beveridge1842–1929 · British orientalist
Alf Bishop1886–1938 · Footballer (1886-1938)
Percy Wyer1884–1965 · Canadian marathon runner
Clement Lindley Wragge1852–1922 · English meteorologist (1852–1922)
JW
Joseph Westwood1884–1948 · British politician (1884-1948)
AH
Albert Hall1882–1957 · English footballer (1882-1957)
EE
Ernie Edwards1892– · English footballer (1892-?)
Everyone born in Stourbridge → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Stourbridge
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stourbridge | 56,961 | 59 | 1 | B− |
| Brierley Hill | 32,311 | 13 | 0 | D |
| Hagley | 7,012 | 9 | 1 | C |
| Kingswinford | 51,900 | 36 | 0 | C− |
| Cradley Heath | 18,819 | 8 | 0 | C− |
| Halesowen | 60,103 | 32 | 2 | C |
| Blakedown | 1,448 | 3 | 0 | C |
| Kinver | 4,651 | 24 | 1 | B |
In brief
Stourbridge in brief
The official list counts 59 listed buildings in Stourbridge, 1 of them Grade I, including St Thomas' Church. Its older streets lie in 6 conservation areas, the first designated in 1975. Joseph Bache (1880), Annette Beveridge (1842) and Alf Bishop (1886) are among the 37 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 14% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Stourbridge’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Stourbridge?
Historic England lists 59 buildings inside Stourbridge’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 4 Grade II* and 54 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Stourbridge?
One: Parish Church of St Thomas.
How many conservation areas are there in Stourbridge?
6, covering about 42 hectares of the town. The largest are Wollaston and Stourbridge Branch Canal (Canal Street).
When were Stourbridge’s buildings listed?
The first in 1949; the most, 21, in 1949.
Are there old photos of Stourbridge?
Yes: 2 public-domain photos and postcards from 1903 to 1903, all on this page.
Who was born in Stourbridge?
Among people born before 1900: Joseph Bache (1880), Annette Beveridge (1842), Alf Bishop (1886), Percy Wyer (1884) and Clement Lindley Wragge (1852).
How old are the homes in Stourbridge?
14% of homes were built before 1919 and 32% 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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