IChurch · listed 1963Church of All SaintsPhoto: Betty Longbottom · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church of St Peter · Photo: Mark Stevenson · CC BY 2.0B+History Grade
History of Batley · Historic England
78 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Batley’s built-up area, 18 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 72 of Batley’s listed buildings. 25% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. Batley grades B+ for history: #30 of 91 in West Yorkshire.
Listed buildings
78
18 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
5
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
25%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Batley in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of All SaintsGrade I listed
Bagshaw Museum (The Woodlands)Grade II* listed
Zion Methodist ChapelGrade II listed
Railway ViaductGrade II listed
Town HallGrade 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.
The map
Where Batley’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%+
3 of 31neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 59% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
78 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I5 Grade II*72 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 Batley
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 5 Grade II* listed buildings in Batley
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 2 are photographed.
II*Public · listed 1998Bagshaw Museum The WoodlandsOn the list as Bagshaw Museum (The Woodlands)Photo: OlderBrother · CC BY-SA 3.0
II*Church · listed 1963St Peter's ChurchOn the list as Church of St PeterPhoto: Mark Stevenson · CC BY 2.0
Public · listed 1984Banqueting House in grounds of Batley Hall
House · listed 1980Highfield Farmhouse and Cottage
Public · listed 1963Old Hall
What’s protected
The largest group of Batley’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas29
Churches, chapels & priories17
Public & civic buildings16
Walls, gates & bridges7
Inns, shops & warehouses5
Street furniture2
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
29 entries (37%) are houses, terraces and villas. 17 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
72 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 72 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barclays Bank Building, Boundary Wall and Gate PiersBarn to the South East of Numbers 17 and 19Batley Barless Fire CompanyBlack Bull Public HouseBoundary Stone Number 4 on the North Corner of Blenheim Drive and Batley Field RoadBoundary Stone Number 5 Opposite the Batley HallBoundary Stone Opposite St Paul's VicarageCarlinghow MillCemetery LodgeChrist ChurchChurch of St JohnChurch of St John (Methodist)Church of St MaryChurch of St PaulChurch of St SaviourChurch of St ThomasClough House, including associated barn and garden wallCross Bank Methodist Sunday SchoolEffigy East of Porch to All Saints' ChurchFormer National SchoolFormer Staincliffe VicarageFormer Technical SchoolFront Boundary Wall Gate Piers and Gates to Infant SchoolFront Boundary Wall and Railings, Gatepiers and Gates to CemeteryHoly Trinity ChurchHyrstlandsJohn Nelson's Study in Burial Ground of Methodist ChapelJoseph Priestley StatueManor CottageMethodist ChurchMethodist Sunday SchoolMidland BankMilepost Outside Number 125New HallNumber 25 and the Two Adjoining WarehousesNumbers 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 23 and Including Boundary Wall, Piers, Steps and RailingsNumbers 31 and 33 and Adjoining WarehousePair of Telephone Kiosks on North Side of Public LibraryPark Road School and Attached Boundary Walls and GatesPublic BathsPublic LibraryPurlwell Infant SchoolRailway ViaductRailway underbridge MDL1/24, Jack LaneRidings HallStables to the East of Numbers 17 and 19Staincliffe HallSundial to South of John Nelson's Study in Burial Ground of Methodist ChapelThe National Westminster BankThe Xclusiv, Adjoining Number 51Tomb of Ellen Nussey 20 Metres North West of Birstall Parish ChurchTomb of John Nelson in Yard of Church of St PeterTown HallWar MemorialZion Methodist Chapel1-12, Market Place110, Oaks Road16 and 18, Station Road17 and 19, Kirkgate2 and 4, South Bank Road2, 4, 6 and 8, Station Road20 and 22, Station Road231, Bradford Road233, Bradford Road24 and 26, Station Road32-40, Station Road35 and 37, Station Road51, Station Road521, Bradford Road6, 8 and 10 Intake Lane83 and 85, Bunkers Lane89 and 91, Brookroyd Lane
Conservation areas
6 conservation areas cover 11% of Batley
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Upper Batley 197940 ha
Station Road 198728 ha
Birstall 199823 ha
Cross Bank 200619 ha
Batley Market Place 19739 ha
No data available for publication by HE3 ha
121 hain conservation areas, of 1,051 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Batley Market Place, was designated in 1973; the newest, Cross Bank, in 2006. 49 of the 78 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
39 of Batley’s 78 listed buildings were added in 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 391963 · 7
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The first 7 entries were listed in 1963, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 39 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Batley 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 (85 points, 19 per 10,000 residents)More than 58% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (25%)More than 75% 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.
Homes by age
25% of Batley’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
23%
Before 1900
2.5%
1900–18
2.1%
1919–29
12%
1930s
8.8%
1945–54
9.4%
1955–64
14%
1965–72
8.7%
1973–82
4%
1983–92
4.4%
1993–99
3.5%
2000–08
3.9%
2009–15
3.5%
2016–25
BatleyEngland & Wales
23% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 14% 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 (320 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
11 notable people born in Batley before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Joseph Priestley
Ellen Nussey
Ann Swaine
Titus Sheard
Alfred Smith
Louis Hall
John Brian Christopherson
Douglas James Smith
John Bell
Horace Waller
Joseph Cookman
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Joseph Priestley1733–1804 · English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1…
Ellen Nussey1817–1897 · British writer (1817-1897)
Louis Hall1852–1915 · English county cricketer (1852-1915)
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Douglas James Smith1873–1949 · English cricketer and umpire (1873-1949)
Joseph Cookman1899–1944 · American journalist, critic and a founder of The Newspaper Guild (189…
TS
Titus Sheard1841–1904 · American politician (1841–1904)
John Brian Christopherson1868–1955 · British surgeon
JB
John Bell1895–1974 · English cricketer of the 1920s
Everyone born in Batley → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Batley
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batley | 44,494 | 78 | 1 | B+ |
| Heckmondwike | 13,368 | 18 | 0 | B− |
| Dewsbury | 63,730 | 128 | 2 | B+ |
| Liversedge | 17,519 | 28 | 0 | B− |
| Drighlington | 5,280 | 13 | 1 | C+ |
| Morley | 32,562 | 49 | 1 | B |
| Gomersal and Birkenshaw | 13,948 | 36 | 0 | B |
| Gildersome | 6,278 | 7 | 0 | C− |
In brief
Batley in brief
More of Batley’s homes are old than in most places: 25% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 78 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of All Saints. Its older streets lie in 6 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973. Joseph Priestley (1733), Ellen Nussey (1817) and Louis Hall (1852) are among the 11 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); and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Batley’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Batley?
Historic England lists 78 buildings inside Batley’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 5 Grade II* and 72 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Batley?
One: Church of All Saints.
How many conservation areas are there in Batley?
6, covering about 121 hectares of the town. The largest are Upper Batley and Station Road.
When were Batley’s buildings listed?
The first in 1963; the most, 39, in 1984.
Who was born in Batley?
Among people born before 1900: Joseph Priestley (1733), Ellen Nussey (1817), Louis Hall (1852), Douglas James Smith (1873) and Joseph Cookman (1899).
How old are the homes in Batley?
25% of homes were built before 1919 and 39% 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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