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History of Featherstone · Historic England
10 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Featherstone’s built-up area, 8.6 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 9 of Featherstone’s listed buildings. We have photos of 3 of its listed buildings. 20% of its homes were built before 1919. Featherstone grades C for history: #68 of 91 in West Yorkshire.
Listed buildings
10
8.6 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
20%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Featherstone
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Featherstone’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 8neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 43% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
10 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*9 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 II*
The Grade II* listed building in Featherstone
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
9 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 9 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Cawthorn Monument 5 Metres West of Porch of Church of All SaintsChurch of St ThomasCross Shaft 7.5 Metres South West of Porch of Church of All SaintsFether Monument 7 Metres South East of Porch of Church of All SaintsFleeming and Collitt Monuments 2.5 Metres South West of Porch of Church of All SaintsJenkinson Monument 17 Metres South West of Porch of Church of All SaintsPotter Monument 3 Metres South of First Bay of Chapel of Church of All SaintsPurston HallRhoads Monument 2 Metres South East of Porch of Church of All Saints
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Featherstone
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
No data available for publication by HE333 ha
333 hain conservation areas, of 333 ha inside the built-up area.
10 of the 10 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
More than half of Featherstone’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1987 · 8
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1964. 8 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Featherstone grades C for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (11 points, 9 per 10,000 residents)More than 28% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (20%)More than 61% 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.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Featherstone
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Featherstone | 11,657 | 10 | 0 | C |
| Streethouse | 1,691 | 0 | 0 | D |
| Pontefract | 32,982 | 63 | 1 | C+ |
| Sharlston | 2,163 | 1 | 0 | C− |
| Ackworth Moor Top | 6,275 | 4 | 0 | C− |
| Normanton | 21,976 | 8 | 0 | C |
| Castleford | 45,363 | 8 | 0 | C |
| Crofton | 6,127 | 8 | 0 | D |
In brief
Featherstone in brief
The official list counts 10 listed buildings in Featherstone, including Church of All Saints. A conservation area protects part of it. The big year was 1987, when 8 of the 10 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 20% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Featherstone’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Featherstone?
Historic England lists 10 buildings inside Featherstone’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 9 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Featherstone?
1, covering about 333 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Featherstone’s buildings listed?
The first in 1964; the most, 8, in 1987.
How old are the homes in Featherstone?
20% of homes were built before 1919 and 31% 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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