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History of Whittington · Historic England

6 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Whittington’s built-up area, 283 for every 10,000 residents. Whittington’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 13% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
6
283 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
13%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Whittington’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.

6 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*6 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

6 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 6 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 13% of Whittington

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

Whittington3 ha
3 hain conservation areas, of 23 ha inside the built-up area.

4 of the 6 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.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Whittington

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Whittington21260—
Norton (Norton Juxta Kempsey)1,59230D
Worcester105,43969913A−
Kempsey3,753191B
Rushwick1,19530C−
Collett's Green1,54240C−
Crowle1,135220A−
Fernhill Heath3,295110C+
In brief

Whittington in brief

Whittington has 6 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. The rest is about typical: the list grew between 1965 and 2015; and 13% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Whittington’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Whittington?

Historic England lists 6 buildings inside Whittington’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 6 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Whittington?

1, covering about 3 hectares of the town. The largest is Whittington.

How old are the homes in Whittington?

13% of homes were built before 1919 and 17% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Whittington has no History Grade.

© 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.