Elmwood House · Photo: Stephen Craven · CC BY-SA 2.05 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Walton’s built-up area, 15 for every 10,000 residents. Walton’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 16% of its homes were built before 1919. Walton grades C− for history: #73 of 91 in West Yorkshire.
Landmarks of Walton
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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.
Where Walton’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
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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.
5 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.
1 conservation area covers 100% of Walton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
5 of the 5 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.
Walton grades C− 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.
Listed buildings in the places around Walton
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walton | 3,266 | 5 | 0 | C− |
| Crofton | 6,127 | 8 | 0 | D |
| Sharlston | 2,163 | 1 | 0 | C− |
| Crigglestone and Durkar | 6,672 | 3 | 0 | C− |
| Havercroft and Ryhill | 5,204 | 1 | 0 | D |
| Hall Green | 2,307 | 7 | 0 | C− |
| Wakefield | 97,871 | 242 | 11 | B+ |
| Streethouse | 1,691 | 0 | 0 | D |
Walton in brief
The official list counts 5 listed buildings in Walton, including Elmwood House. A conservation area protects part of it. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 24% of UK towns. Beyond that, the list grew between 1966 and 1986; and 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Walton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Walton?
Historic England lists 5 buildings inside Walton’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 5 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Walton?
1, covering about 89 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
How old are the homes in Walton?
16% of homes were built before 1919 and 27% 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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