337 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Piece Hall, Westgate, HalifaxGrade I listedChurch of All SoulsGrade I listedBailey Hall MillGrade II listedRailway ViaductGrade II listedThe Victoria TheatreGrade II listed+35See 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. 1850

c. 1884

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 337 entries, 86 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 1 entry was listed in 1950. 113 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 13 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

4 registered parks and gardens

Lister Lane CemeteryGrade II

Peoples Park, HalifaxGrade II*

Shrogg's ParkGrade II

West View ParkGrade II

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.

30% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, 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 (278 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

John Milner

David Hartley

Anne Lister

John Frederic Bateman

Benjamin Wilson

James Stansfeld

Tom Emmett

William Bramwell Booth

William Edward Soothill

Richard Haking

J. S. Fletcher

Herbert Akroyd Stuart

John Henry Whitley

Ernest Lister

Laura Annie Willson

Matthew Smith

George Dyson

Joe Chadbourne

George Norman Clark

Percy Shaw

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DH

David Hartley1705–1757 · British philosopher

Anne Lister1791–1840 · English landowner and lesbian diarist (1791–1840)

GD

George Dyson1883–1964 · English composer (1883-1964)

J. S. Fletcher1863–1935 · British journalist and author (1863-1935)

William Bramwell Booth1856–1929 · (1856-1929) General of The Salvation Army

MS

Matthew Smith1879–1959 · British painter (1879-1959)

Tom Emmett1841–1904 · English professional cricketer (1841-1904)

Richard Haking1862–1945 · British general in the First World War

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

More of Halifax’s homes are old than in most places: 35% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 337 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I, including Halifax Minster. Its older streets lie in 9 conservation areas, the first designated in 1974.

Most entries on the list, 51%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 63 people born here before 1900, the best known include David Hartley (1705), Anne Lister (1791) and George Dyson (1883). Beyond that, it has 3 Grade I buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 2); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.