88 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade II*

Church of St Mary and attached presbyteryGrade II* listedChurch of St MatthewGrade II* listedBrookes WorksGrade II listedFormer Imperial CinemaGrade II listedRose and Crown Public HouseGrade 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.

c. 1905

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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 88 entries, 27 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 3 entries were listed in 1951. 44 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 6 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.

2 registered parks and gardens

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.

23% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, 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 (87 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

John Edward Gray

William Henry Duignan

Jerome K. Jerome

James George Joseph Penderel-Brodhurst

Alf Jones

Harry Yates

Albert Aldridge

Harry Allen

William James

George Broadhurst

Harry Wood

Tom Bayley

George Bowen

Jack Aston

Aaron Jones

Harold Baker

Arthur Russell

George Garratly

Arthur Wood

Billy Benton

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Jerome K. Jerome1859–1927 · English humorist (1859-1927)

JG

John Edward Gray1800–1875 · British zoologist (1800–1875)

Arthur Russell1886–1972 · British athlete (1886-1972)

AA

Albert Aldridge1864–1891 · Football player (1864-1891)

HA

Harry Allen1866–1895 · British footballer (1866-1895)

AJ

Alf Jones1861–1935 · British association football player (1861-1935)

HW

Harry Wood1868–1951 · English footballer (1868–1951)

GB

George Bowen1875–1945 · Footballer (1875-1945)

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

More of Walsall’s homes are old than in most places: 26% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 88 listed buildings, including Church of St Mary and attached presbytery. Its older streets lie in 10 conservation areas, the first designated in 1979. Jerome K. Jerome (1859), John Edward Gray (1800) and Arthur Russell (1886) are among the 55 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.