Public · listed 1962Rawdon Hall
Rawdon Quaker Meeting House · Photo: Chemical Engineer · CC BY-SA 4.0BHistory Grade
History of Rawdon · Historic England
30 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Rawdon’s built-up area, 45 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 29 of Rawdon’s listed buildings. We have photos of 3 of its listed buildings. 19% of its homes were built before 1919. Rawdon grades B for history: #38 of 91 in West Yorkshire.
Listed buildings
30
45 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
19%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Rawdon
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 Rawdon’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 5neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 39% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
30 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*29 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 Rawdon
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
The largest group of Rawdon’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas12
Churches, chapels & priories9
Public & civic buildings7
Walls, gates & bridges2
12 entries (40%) are houses, terraces and villas. 9 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.
Grade II
29 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 29 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn and cottage approximately 5 metres north of Woodbottom Cottage (Woodbottom Cottage not included), Low Hall FarmChurch of St PeterCrow TreesDove Cottage (Now Incorporating the Former Buckstone Cottage)Entrance Gateway to Friends' Meeting House, With Attached Front WallExley Tomb Chest Approximately 3 Metres South of 3RD Bay of Aisle of Church of St St PeterFormer barn approximately 30 metres south-west of Low Hall FarmhouseFoster Monument Approximately 1 Metre South of East Bay of Chancel of Church of St PeterGroup of 3 Hird Monuments Approximately 3 Metres South East of Chancel of Church of St PeterGroup of 4 Hardaker and Booth Monuments Approximately 1 Metre East of East Wall of Chancel of Church of St PeterGroup of 4 Hird and Longbottam Monuments from Approximately 1 Metre South of Chancel of Church of St PeterGroup of 5 Monuments Approximately 9 Metres South of Church of St PeterHoneysuckle CottageIvy CottageLane Head Cottage Mews CottageLane Head HouseLayton GhyllLayton HallLow HallMeeting House Cottage with Attached StableMicklefield HouseMonumental Hird Slab Approximately 1 Metre from 2ND Bay of Aisle of Church of St PeterNumbers 6 and 7 Stoney CroftOld Larkfield and Larkfield CottageRawdon Free SchoolRawdon Quaker Meeting HouseShrog Products and Pickwikett, Low FoldThe Folly and Burwood CottageWoodleigh Hall
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 100% of Rawdon
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 HE204 ha
Little London 19771 ha
205 hain conservation areas, of 206 ha inside the built-up area.
30 of the 30 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 Rawdon’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1988
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1988 · 171962 · 51983 · 5
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 5 entries were listed in 1962. 17 came in 1988, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Rawdon 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 (31 points, 46 per 10,000 residents)More than 57% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (19%)More than 59% 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 Rawdon
In brief
Rawdon in brief
Rawdon has 30 listed buildings, including Rawdon Quaker Meeting House. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1977. The big year was 1988, when 17 of the 30 went on the list. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 19% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Rawdon’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Rawdon?
Historic England lists 30 buildings inside Rawdon’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 29 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Rawdon?
2, covering about 205 hectares of the town. The largest are No data available for publication by HE and Little London.
When were Rawdon’s buildings listed?
The first in 1962; the most, 17, in 1988.
How old are the homes in Rawdon?
19% of homes were built before 1919 and 43% 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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