Trinity Methodist Church · Photo: Brianboru100 · CC BY-SA 4.021 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Willenhall’s built-up area, 4.2 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Willenhall is Grade II. 5.7% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. Willenhall grades D for history: #21 of 35 in West Midlands.
Willenhall in 6 photos
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The Bell Public HouseGrade II listed
Church of Emmanuel, Bentley and church hallGrade II listed
Willenhall War Memorial, including obelisk and associated First World War stone panels and plaques, Second World War stone panels and plaques, and plaques dedicated to the Boer War.Grade II listed
Little London Baptist ChurchGrade II listed
Clock TowerGrade 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 Willenhall’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).
Most of Willenhall’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
12 entries (57%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 are churches, chapels and priories.
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.
21 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 21 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 0.7% of Willenhall
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
12 of the 21 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 Willenhall’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 1 entry was listed in 1951. 14 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 4 have been added in the last 15 years.
Willenhall 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.
5.7% of Willenhall’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
3.5% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, 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 (20 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
9 notable people born in Willenhall before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in Willenhall → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Listed buildings in the places around Willenhall
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willenhall | 49,582 | 21 | 0 | D |
| Darlaston | 21,541 | 9 | 0 | C− |
| Bloxwich | 51,891 | 12 | 0 | D |
| Essington | 3,471 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Bilston | 34,631 | 25 | 0 | C− |
| Walsall | 70,777 | 88 | 0 | B+ |
| Wednesbury | 20,321 | 11 | 0 | C− |
| Wolverhampton | 234,029 | 339 | 2 | B− |
Willenhall in brief
The official list counts 21 listed buildings in Willenhall, including Trinity Methodist Church. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1977. Of the whole list, 57% are houses, terraces and villas. Joe Butcher (1875), Bert Bliss (1890) and Charles Lapworth (1878) are among the 9 people born here before 1900.
Its homes are mostly newer: 5.7% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1986: 14 of 21. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Willenhall’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Willenhall?
Historic England lists 21 buildings inside Willenhall’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 21 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Willenhall?
1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Willenhall.
When were Willenhall’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 14, in 1986.
Who was born in Willenhall?
Among people born before 1900: Joe Butcher (1875), Bert Bliss (1890), Charles Lapworth (1878), Moses Lane (1895) and Thomas Wyatt (1783).
How old are the homes in Willenhall?
5.7% of homes were built before 1919 and 21% 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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