Hollowgate Bridge · Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.061 listed buildings
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Holmfirth’s built-up area, 122 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Holmfirth is Grade II. 38% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. Holmfirth grades A for history: #8 of 91 in West Yorkshire.
Holmfirth in 5 photos
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The PicturedromeGrade II listed
Church of St JohnGrade II listed
Church of the Holy TrinityGrade II listed
7 Miles Post 50 Yards South of Junction with Washpit New RoadGrade 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 Holmfirth’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
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.
Huddersfield Road has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Of the 61 entries, 42 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
Most of Holmfirth’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
54 entries (89%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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.
61 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 61 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
2 conservation areas cover 25% of Holmfirth
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
The first, Holmfirth, was designated in 1972; the newest, Underbank, in 1980. 51 of the 61 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 Holmfirth’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 2 entries were listed in 1967. 55 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Holmfirth grades A 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.
38% of Holmfirth’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
35% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 11% 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 (48 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Holmfirth
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holmfirth | 4,982 | 61 | 0 | A |
| Upperthong | 1,094 | 9 | 0 | B |
| Holmbridge | 1,219 | 28 | 0 | A |
| Scholes (near Hade Edge) | 1,888 | 50 | 0 | A |
| Honley | 14,399 | 163 | 0 | A |
| Meltham | 8,325 | 32 | 0 | B+ |
| Netherton (Kirklees) | 3,151 | 41 | 0 | B+ |
| Shepley | 2,515 | 10 | 0 | B |
Holmfirth in brief
More of Holmfirth’s homes are old than in most places: 38% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 61 listed buildings, including Hollowgate Bridge. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 77% of UK towns. On Huddersfield Road alone there are 8 listed buildings.
Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1972. Of the whole list, 89% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1983: 55 of 61. The rest is about typical: William Senior (1850) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Holmfirth’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Holmfirth?
Historic England lists 61 buildings inside Holmfirth’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 61 Grade II.
Which street in Holmfirth has the most listed buildings?
Huddersfield Road (8), Cinderhills Road (4) and Dunford Road (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
How many conservation areas are there in Holmfirth?
2, covering about 37 hectares of the town. The largest are Holmfirth and Underbank.
When were Holmfirth’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 55, in 1983.
How old are the homes in Holmfirth?
38% of homes were built before 1919 and 46% 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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