44 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Church of St PeterGrade II* listedThe Forge MillScheduled monumentChurch of St PhilipGrade II listedBritish MillsGrade II listedChurch of the Holy AscensionGrade 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).

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 9 entries were listed in 1954. 20 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 4 have been added in the last 15 years.

4 scheduled monuments

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

Moated site and fishpond at Hunt End, 120m south east of Chapel House Farm

Moated site known as Moon's Moat

Park Wood Camp, Ipsley

The Forge Mill

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.

4.6% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 30% 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 (41 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Tom Paddock

Dick Roberts

Harry Aston

Alf Dolphin

Archer Windsor-Clive

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HA

Harry Aston1881–1938 · English footballer (1881-1938)

AD

Alf Dolphin1890–1940 · English footballer (1890-1940)

DR

Dick Roberts1878–1931 · English footballer (1878-1931)

Tom Paddock1822–1863 · English boxer (1822–1863)

AW

Archer Windsor-Clive1890–1914 · English cricketer and British Army officer (1890-1914)

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

Redditch has 44 listed buildings, including Church of St Peter. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1971. Of the whole list, 61% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 5 people born here before 1900, the best known include Harry Aston (1881), Alf Dolphin (1890) and Dick Roberts (1878).

Its homes are mostly newer: 6.1% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Most towns its size have more Grade I buildings: the typical one has 2. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 4 scheduled monuments.