163 listed buildings

Honley BridgeGrade II listedWood Royd Methodist ChurchGrade II listedChrist ChurchGrade II listedCricketers ArmsGrade II listedHawthorn HouseGrade II listed+1See 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.

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 163 entries, 80 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 14 entries were listed in 1967. 118 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

25% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 12% 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 (71 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

France Littlewood

G. W. C. Kaye

Clement Armitage

Sydney Liversedge

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Clement Armitage1881–1973 · British Army general (1881-1973)

G. W. C. Kaye1880–1941 · English physicist (1880 - 1941)

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France Littlewood1863–1941 · British politician

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Sydney Liversedge1897–1979 · British flying ace

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

Old houses are part of Honley’s character: 28% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 163 listed buildings, including Honley Mill. For its size, it has more listed heritage than 83% of UK towns. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973.

Of the whole list, 71% are houses, terraces and villas. Clement Armitage (1881), G. W. C. Kaye (1880) and France Littlewood (1863) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1983: 118 of 163.