Sir Titus Salt's Hospital Including Wall and Piers to Saltaire Road · Photo: Simon Cobb · CC0

History of Shipley · Historic England

Shipley is home to a World Heritage Site: Saltaire

Historic England lists 116 buildings inside Shipley’s built-up area, 40 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 28% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 10 of its listed buildings and 2 old views of the town. Shipley grades A− for history: #19 of 91 in West Yorkshire.

1Grade I 5Grade II*1scheduled monument 9on Titus Street

Listed buildings

116

40 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

28%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Shipley in 12 photos and old views

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Saltaire Mills - the Entrance BlockGrade II* listed

The Old BankGrade II listed

Shipley Conservative ClubGrade II listed

Church of St PaulGrade II listed

Saltaire Congregational Church War Memorial ObeliskGrade II listed+7See 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.

Through time

Shipley from 1902 to 1905

2 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

EdwardianShipley Church, interior (1) 001Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain

EdwardianSt Paul Shipley (1) 001Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

The map

Where Shipley’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.

Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument

Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+

5 of 21neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 88% were built before 1919.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

116 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I5 Grade II*110 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 I

The Grade I listed building in Shipley

Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Church · listed 1966Saltaire United Reformed ChurchOn the list as Congregational Church (Including Salt Family Mausoleum to South)Photo: Charles Rawding · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The 5 Grade II* listed buildings in Shipley

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 4 are photographed.

House · listed 1985Saltaire Mills - the Entrance BlockPhoto: Lynne Glazzard · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1966Saltaire Mills - Main Block Including ShedsPhoto: Jon Farman · Public domain

Walls & gates · listed 1966Saltaire School Including Wall, Gate Piers and Sculpted Lions to Front Area, And Gate to South SidePhoto: Simon Cobb · CC0

Walls & gates · listed 1966Victoria HallOn the list as Victoria Hall including wall, gate-piers and sculpted lions to front area, and railings to rearPhoto: Tim Green from Bradford · CC BY 2.0

House · listed 1976Barn Immediately East of New Close Farmhouse

Historic streets

Titus Street 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.

Titus Street9 listed

Albert Road8 listed

Caroline Street6 listed

Constance Street4 listed

Dove Street4 listed

George Street4 listed

Jane Street3 listed

Shirley Street3 listed

Of the 116 entries, 76 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Shipley’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas92

Walls, gates & bridges9

Churches, chapels & priories5

Street furniture4

Inns, shops & warehouses3

Public & civic buildings2

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

92 entries (79%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.

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

110 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 110 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Barn in Old Bull Yard, 25 metres north east of 28 Towngate Canal Warehouse Immediately West of Number 7 Church of St Paul Gates and Gate Piers to Church of St Paul K6 Telephone Kiosk Opposite Number 27 Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Canal Bridge Number 208 200 Metres West of Junction with Dock Lane Manor Lane Wesleyan Reformed Church Including Number 21 Mill Chimney to Victoria Works New Close Farmhouse Number 15 Including Walls and Gate Piers Number 15, Part to East Number 67, 68, 69, 70 and 71 and Attached Arcade Number 79 and Attached Arcade Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and Adjoining Buildings Numbers 1-11 Including Railings to North Numbers 24-49 Including Wall, Piers and Railings to South, And Wall and Piers to North Numbers 50-64 Including Railings and Piers to Bingley Road Numbers 72, 73, 74 and 75 and Attached Arcade Numbers 76, 77, 78 and Attached Arcade Railings and Piers to Front of Saltaire Mills Railings, Gates and Piers to Front of Congregational Church Saltaire Congregational Church War Memorial Obelisk Saltaire Mills - North Block (New Mill) and chimney Saltaire Mills Chimney to East of Complex Shipley College Including Railings to Right and to Left and to Both Sides of Railway Steps Shipley Conservative Club Shipley Fields Hall Shipley War Memorial Sir Titus Salt's Hospital Including Wall and Piers to Saltaire Road The Old Bank Tram Shed at Junction with Clarence Road Victoria Works, The Main Block to North West of Complex Victoria Works, the main blocks to south of complex Westcliffe Road Methodist Chapel 1, 2, 3 and 4, Myrtle Place 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, Harold Place 1, Lower School Street 1-10 Mawson Street 1-10, Lockwood Street 1-10, Titus Street 1-11, Jane Street 1-11, William Henry Street 1-12, Dove Street 1-13, Amelia Street 1-22, Ada Street 1-22, Helen Street 1-22, Mary Street 1-5, Daisy Place 1-5, Fern Place 1-6, Higher School Street 1-7, Katherine Street 1-9, Constance Street 1-9, Shirley Street 10-16, Constance Street 10-16, Shirley Street 107, Saltaire Road 11 and 13, Albert Road 11, Titus Street 12, 13, 14 and 15, Jane Street 12-21, Titus Street 12-22, William Henry Street 13-21, Dove Street 14, Albert Terrace 14, Caroline Street 14-22, Amelia Street 15, 16 and 17, Victoria Road 15, 17, 19 and 21, Albert Road 15, Caroline Street 15-27, Edward Street 16-27, Jane Street 17 to 23, Constance Street 17-23, Shirley Street 18, Caroline Street 19-26, George Street 2-18, George Street 2-7, Lower School Street 22-28, Dove Street 23 and 25, Albert Road 23, Albert Terrace 23-44, Ada Street 23-44, Helen Street 23-44, Mary Street 23-44, Whitlam Street 24 and 26, Towngate 24-32, Constance Street 27-37, George Street, 6 Albert Terrace and 6 Caroline Street 27-61, Albert Road 29-40, Dove Street 3 and 5, Snowden Road 3, 5, 7 and 9, Albert Road 30, Titus Street 30-39, Caroline Street 31-37, Titus Street 33 and 35, Snowden Road 38-47, George Street 40, Caroline Street 41-50, Caroline Street 46, Titus Street 47, Titus Street 48-65, George Street 5, 6 and 7, Jane Hills 50 and 51, Titus Street 51-97, Bingley Road 52-61, Titus Street 6, Wood Top 63 and 65, Albert Road 67, 69, 71 and 73 Albert Road 7, Thackley Old Road 75 and 77, Albert Road 8-14, Katherine Street

Conservation areas

3 conservation areas cover 6.8% of Shipley

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Saltaire 197124 ha

Leeds Liverpool Canal 198814 ha

Wrose 19771 ha

39 hain conservation areas, of 576 ha inside the built-up area.

The first, Saltaire, was designated in 1971; the newest, Leeds Liverpool Canal, in 1988. 98 of the 116 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 Shipley’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1985 · 871966 · 16

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 16 entries were listed in 1966, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 87 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

World Heritage

SaltaireUNESCO World Heritage Site, partly or wholly inside the town

1 scheduled monument

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

Cup marked rock 60m south west of the War Memorial at Crowgill Park

History Grade

Shipley grades A− for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (125 points, 43 per 10,000 residents)More than 70% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (28%)More than 81% 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.

Homes by age

28% of Shipley’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

20%

Before 1900

8.3%

1900–18

9.4%

1919–29

18%

1930s

3.8%

1945–54

9.7%

1955–64

9.5%

1965–72

2.2%

1973–82

0.6%

1983–92

1993–99

9.1%

2000–08

2.4%

2009–15

2.8%

2016–25

ShipleyEngland & Wales

20% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 18% 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 (20 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Born here

5 notable people born in Shipley before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Francis Whatmough

Sir Geoffrey Ellis, 1st Baronet

Douglas Mawson

Leo Walmsley

Arthur Raistrick

18501875190019251950

Douglas Mawson1882–1958 · Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)

Sir Geoffrey Ellis, 1st Baronet1874–1956 · British politician (1874-1956)

Leo Walmsley1892–1966 · Recipient of the Military Cross

Francis Whatmough1856–1904 · English county cricketer (1856-1904)

Arthur Raistrick1896–1991 · British geologist and archaeologist (1896-1991)

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

Towns its size

Shipley has the 81st most Grade I buildings of 340 towns its size

Places of 18,000–47,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Bury St Edmunds26

Ely25

Chichester14

Warwick13

Stratford-upon-Avon11

Shipley1

#88 of 340for listed buildings per resident (40 per 10,000). Stamford, Cirencester and Bury St Edmunds lead.

80 have more. The typical town its size has 1.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Shipley

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Shipley	29,228	116	1	A⁻
Baildon	17,056	46	0	B⁻
Bingley	21,334	59	0	B
Bradford	333,968	959	5	A⁻
Wilsden	3,749	12	0	B⁻
Calverley	3,988	13	1	B⁺
Guiseley	12,462	25	1	C⁺
Harden	1,602	16	0	B

In brief

Shipley in brief

Shipley holds part of a World Heritage Site, Saltaire. All told, the list holds 116 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Saltaire Mills - the Entrance Block. Of its homes, 28% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 80 of the 340 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

Titus Street alone has 9 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1971. Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Shipley’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Shipley?

Historic England lists 116 buildings inside Shipley’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 5 Grade II* and 110 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Shipley?

One: Congregational Church (Including Salt Family Mausoleum to South).

Which street in Shipley has the most listed buildings?

Titus Street (9), Albert Road (8) and Caroline Street (6) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Shipley?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Cup marked rock 60m south west of the War Memorial at Crowgill Park.

Is Shipley a World Heritage Site?

Shipley is home to part or all of Saltaire, inscribed by UNESCO.

How many conservation areas are there in Shipley?

3, covering about 39 hectares of the town. The largest are Saltaire and Leeds Liverpool Canal.

When were Shipley’s buildings listed?

The first in 1966; the most, 87, in 1985.

Are there old photos of Shipley?

Yes: 2 public-domain photos and postcards from 1902 to 1905, all on this page.

Who was born in Shipley?

Among people born before 1900: Douglas Mawson (1882), Sir Geoffrey Ellis, 1st Baronet (1874), Leo Walmsley (1892), Francis Whatmough (1856) and Arthur Raistrick (1896).

How old are the homes in Shipley?

28% of homes were built before 1919 and 56% 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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