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History of Scarcroft · Historic England

4 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Scarcroft’s built-up area, 24 for every 10,000 residents. Scarcroft’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 16% of its homes were built before 1919. Scarcroft grades C for history.

Listed buildings
4
24 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
16%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Scarcroft’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.

4 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*4 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.

Grade II

4 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 4 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 100% of Scarcroft

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 HE93 ha
93 hain conservation areas, of 93 ha inside the built-up area.

4 of the 4 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.

History Grade

Scarcroft 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 (4 points, 24 per 10,000 residents)More than 28% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (16%)More than 47% 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 Scarcroft

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Scarcroft1,63440C
Thorner1,397280A−
Bardsey1,819141C+
Shadwell1,452100B
East Keswick1,14560C+
Collingham2,36240C−
Scholes (Leeds)2,27000D−
Barwick in Elmet2,18050C
In brief

Scarcroft in brief

Scarcroft has 4 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; the list grew between 1985 and 2012; and 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Scarcroft’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Scarcroft?

Historic England lists 4 buildings inside Scarcroft’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 4 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Scarcroft?

1, covering about 93 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.

How old are the homes in Scarcroft?

16% of homes were built before 1919 and 29% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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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