Victoria Park, Tipton · Photo: Sandwell Council · CC BY-SA 2.019 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Tipton’s built-up area, 4 for every 10,000 residents. All of Tipton’s listed buildings are Grade II. 3.2% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. Tipton grades D for history: #23 of 35 in West Midlands.
Tipton in 6 photos
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The Tilted Barrel Public HouseGrade II listed
Towpath Bridge over Entrance to Canal Basin (Approximately 150 Metres West of Watery Lane) Birmingham Canal Birmingham LevelGrade II listed
Footbridge to South of Junction with Tame Valley Canal, East of Bayleys Lane Walsall CanalGrade II listed
Bottom Lock and Attached Cantilever Footbridge, Factory Locks (Approximately 50 Meters North of Furnace Parade) Birmingham Canal Birmingham LevelGrade II listed
Church of St MatthewGrade II listed+1See 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.
Where Tipton’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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).
19 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 19 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 2.8% of Tipton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
8 of the 19 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.
More than half of Tipton’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 1 entry was listed in 1974. 14 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
Tipton grades D for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
3.2% of Tipton’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
1.9% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 18% 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 (107 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
21 notable people born in Tipton before 1900
The 20 best known on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in Tipton → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Listed buildings in the places around Tipton
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tipton | 47,202 | 19 | 0 | D |
| Coseley | 25,206 | 6 | 0 | D |
| Bilston | 34,631 | 25 | 0 | C− |
| Rowley Regis | 39,052 | 6 | 0 | D− |
| Darlaston | 21,541 | 9 | 0 | C− |
| Wednesbury | 20,321 | 11 | 0 | C− |
| Dudley | 64,277 | 95 | 2 | B− |
| Sedgley | 31,976 | 23 | 0 | C− |
Tipton in brief
The official list counts 19 listed buildings in Tipton, including Victoria Park, Tipton. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1986. Margaret MacDonald (1864), Fred Morris (1893) and Jem Bayliss (1863) are among the 21 people born here before 1900.
Its homes are mostly newer: 3.2% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1987, when 14 of the 19 went on the list. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Tipton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Tipton?
Historic England lists 19 buildings inside Tipton’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 19 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Tipton?
1, covering about 27 hectares of the town. The largest is Factory Locks.
When were Tipton’s buildings listed?
The first in 1974; the most, 14, in 1987.
Who was born in Tipton?
Among people born before 1900: Margaret MacDonald (1864), Fred Morris (1893), Jem Bayliss (1863), Fred Hobson (1878) and Billy Jones (1881).
How old are the homes in Tipton?
3.2% of homes were built before 1919 and 26% 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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