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Allerton Castle

Allerton Castle, formerly "Allerton Park" is a Grade I listed nineteenth century Gothic or Victorian Gothic house at Allerton Mauleverer in North Yorkshire, England.

Banner Cross Hall

The hall is a Grade II listed building which is now the main headquarters of Henry Boot PLC, the Sheffield based property and construction company.

Bexhill West Branch Line

Local residents were opposed to the plan, and a question was asked in Parliament by Neill Cooper-Key regarding the preservation of the viaduct, which was not listed.

Birmingham Metropolitan College

The buildings were mostly constructed in the 1950s as purpose-built structure although the college also obtained the Grade II* listed Moat House which was built in the 17th century by Sir William Wilson.

Brockley, Somerset

Nailsea Court near Chelvey dates from the 15th century and is a Grade I listed building.

Chew Stoke

Its original buildings were demolished in 1858 and replaced with new ones to designs by S.B. Gabriel that are now Grade II listed.

Christleton

Christleton Old Hall is a former country house in the village and a Grade II* listed building.

Church of All Saints, Sutton Bingham

The Church of All Saints in Sutton Bingham in the civil parish of Closworth, Somerset, England dates from the 12th and 13th centuries and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

Church of St Bridget, Chelvey

Bridget's Church in Chelvey, Brockley, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century, and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.

Church of St John the Baptist, Churchill

The Church of St John the Baptist in Churchill, Somerset, England, was largely built around 1360 and is a Grade I listed building.

Church of St Martin, North Perrott

The Church of St Martin in North Perrott, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Salford, Bedfordshire

Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Salford, Bedfordshire, England.

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Shelton, North Bedfordshire

Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Shelton, Bedfordshire, England.

Church of St Mary, Bridgwater

The Church of St Mary in Bridgwater, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

Church of St Mary, Linslade

Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed church in Linslade, Bedfordshire, England.

Cliffe, Richmondshire

The Grade II listed George Hotel stands near the road-bridge which crosses the Tees coming from Piercebridge, and is said to be the home of My Grandfather's Clock which "stopped short never to go again when the old man died".

The village is notable for its 17th-century Grade II listed George Hotel, where the story behind the song, My Grandfather's Clock, is said to have originated in 1875.

Corporation Street, Birmingham

It has several important Victorian listed buildings on it including the red brick and terracotta Victoria Law Courts, Methodist Central Hall, and the seven buildings nearest New Street.

Craigellachie Bridge

The bridge has been given Category A listed status by Historic Scotland and has been designated a civil engineering landmark by the Institution of Civil Engineers and American Society of Civil Engineers.

Edward Jenner Museum

The Edward Jenner Museum in Berkeley, England, is housed in a grade II* listed early 18th century building called the Chantry, famous as the home of Edward Jenner, the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, and now used as a museum.

Farley Hall

Farley Hall is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Farley Hill in Berkshire.

Fenchurch Street

The frontage on Fenchurch Street was built in 1901 by Thomas Edward Collcutt and is a Grade II* listed building.

Filey railway station

The station buildings were designed by the architect George Townsend Andrews, feature an overall roof similar to that further down the line at Beverley and are designated as grade II* listed buildings.

Friar Garth Farmhouse

Friar Garth Farmhouse is a grade-II-listed farmhouse located on Finkle Street in the village of Malham, Craven, North Yorkshire, England.

Gaddesden Place

The building, which is listed as Grade II, was purchased in 1984 by Charles Moir, founder of Computer Concepts (later Xara from 1995), a software company, and has been the headquarters of Xara Group Ltd, latterly acquired by MAGIX, since that time.

Gissing Hall

Gissing Hall is a listed fifteenth century mansion, situated in five acres of woodland and gardens in the village of Gissing in Norfolk, England.

Gledhow

In the area at the top of Gledhow Lane is Gledhow Hall, a 17th-century mansion house and grade II listed building, once the home of James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale.

Grayingham

Grayingham Grade II* listed Anglican church is dedicated to Saint Radegund.

Great Brickhill

The parish church of St. Mary the Virgin is a Grade II* listed building, dating back to the 13th century.

Hartcliffe

Part of the site is now the Imperial Park shopping centre while the listed headquarters building is being converted into the Lakeshore flats.

Hedemora Gamla Theater

Hedemora Gamla Theater (Old Theatre of Hedemora), most often referred to as Teaterladan (The barn theatre), is a theatre and a listed building in Hedemora, Dalarna County, Sweden.

Kingsey

Grade 1 listed Tythrop Park in Kingsey is listed as having an early duck decoy similar to that in Boarstall Duck Decoy in Buckinghamshire.

Kirkley Hall

Kirkley Hall is a 17th-century historic country mansion and Grade II listed building situated on the bank of the River Blyth at Kirkley, near Ponteland in the heart of the Northumberland countryside, which is now an Horticultural and Agricultural training centre.

Layerthorpe

The Branch Line's sidings and the Corporation's premises have been replaced by a variety of industrial and retail units, although the refuse destructor's octagonal chimney (a Grade II listed building, approximately 55 metres high) has been preserved next to Morrisons supermarket on Foss Islands Road.

Milnthorpe

The grade I listed house Dallam Tower, with an estate known for its deer, stands near to the River Bela just south west of Milnthorpe, whilst St. Anthony's Tower may be seen on the top of St. Anthony's Hill to the north east of the town centre, overlooking the village and the housing estate of Owlet Ash Fields in nearby Ackenthwaite.

Mount Street Gardens

The church, built between 1844 and 1849, was in a decorated gothic-style, designed by Joseph John Scoles, and with the altar by A.W.N. Pugin, and is now a Grade II* listed building.

Nether Lypiatt Manor

It is a Grade I listed building and has been praised by architectural historian Mark Girouard as perfectly exemplifying the early eighteenth-century formal house in miniature.

Octagon Chapel, Bath

The Octagon Chapel in Milsom Street, Bath, Somerset, England was built in 1767 and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.

Oxenford Farm

Oxenford Farm was formerly an abbey farm, a dependency of Waverley Abbey in the civil parish of Milford, Surrey, England, with several listed buildings around a courtyard, including three by Augustus Pugin.

Saltdean Lido

On 18 March 2011, John Penrose, the Minister for Tourism and Heritage in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, approved the upgrade of Saltdean Lido's listed status from Grade II to the second highest grade, Grade II*.

Shavington cum Gresty

Shavington Hall is a small country house, built in 1877 for the Earl of Shrewsbury in a Tudor Revival style; it is listed at grade II.

Spon Street

The street originally ran from St John the Baptist Church, a Grade I listed building, from where the expression "sent to Coventry" may have originated, out of the city centre to the west, through the area known as Spon End, to the bottom of Hearsall Lane.

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Langridge

St Mary Magdalene's Church at Langridge in the parish of Charlcombe, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

St Nicholas' Church, Brockley

St Nicholas' Church in Brockley, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century, and has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.

Stanley Park, Liverpool

It includes the 1899 Gladstone Conservatory (recently restored and renamed the Isla Gladstone Conservatory), a Grade II listed building built by Mackenzie & Moncur of Edinburgh.

Thomas Holbein Hendley

In 1886, in conjunction with Samuel Swinton Jacob, Hendley designed the Grade II-listed Jaipur Gate which stands outside Hove Museum and Art Gallery in Hove, East Sussex.

Tushingham cum Grindley

St Chad's Chapel, Tushingham is a Grade I listed building, and it is reported that there appears to have been a chapel present there since the fourteenth century.

Walker Mausoleum

The sandstone mausoleum was built in the 1760s as the burial site for the families of Samuel and Aaron Walker and is now a Grade II listed building.

Whirlow

Parkhead Hall a Grade II listed building was built in 1865 by the architect J.B. Mitchell-Withers for his own use, the steel magnate Sir Robert Hadfield lived there between 1898 and 1939.

Wright's Almshouses, Nantwich

The building was originally erected at the junction of Hospital Street and London Road in 1638 by Edmund Wright (later Sir Edmund Wright), Lord Mayor of London in 1640–41, and is listed at grade II*.


see also

Cally House

Cally Palace, formerly Cally House, Category A listed building in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Church of All Saints, Sawtry

Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed listed building located in Sawtry, a village in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, England.

Church of St Andrew, Banwell

The mainly 15th-century parish Church of St Andrew in Banwell, Somerset, England, is a Grade I listed building.

Concord Foreshore Trail

After McIlwaine Park, the trail goes around the fringes of the former Thomas Walker Hospital, a heritage-listed building now used as the Rivendell Child, Adolescent and Family Unit.

Confiserie Roodthooft

The company's headquarters are in a listed building built in 1905-7 by former students of Victor Horta.

Crosby Hall

Crosby Hall, London, a Grade II* listed building in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, England

Gervase Jackson-Stops

Jackson-Stops developed a unique home in The Menagerie, a Grade II listed building at Horton, Northamptonshire, part of the estate buildings for the now demolished Horton House and seat of the Earl of Halifax.

Gleadless Valley

The other listed building is the Bagshawe Arms on Norton Avenue, this was built by the Bagshawe family of Oakes Park in Norton.

Letton, Norfolk

The main building in Letton is Letton Hall a Grade II listed building now used mainly as a religious holiday centre.

Moreton Morrell

Moreton Hall, is a Grade II listed building in the village built on land bought in 1903 by Charles Tuller Garland, a son of a rich New York banker.

Raphaels Bank

The bank is sited in London and at Walton Lodge, in Walton, Aylesbury a grade II listed building, part of Walton Terrace.

Richmond Hill, Leeds

On top of Richmond Hill itself is the Church of England Parish Church of St Saviour (Diocese of Ripon and Leeds), a Grade I listed building from 1845, founded by Edward Bouverie Pusey.

Royal Hotel, Great Yarmouth

The Royal Hotel is a grade II listed building which is in the English seaside resort town of Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, United Kingdom.

Scheduled monument

Wymondham Abbey in Norfolk is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, a Grade I Listed Building, and lies in Wymondham Conservation Area.

Sopley

Now being used as a youth activity centre; Avon Tyrrell House is a grade I listed building constructed in 1891 by W. R. Lethaby as a private, medium-sized country residence for John Manners-Sutton, 3rd Baron Manners (1852–1927).

St Pauls House, Leeds

Built in 1878 as a warehouse and cloth cutting works for Sir John Barran, 1st Baronet, this is a Grade II* listed building.

Tile Cross

Landmarks in the area include Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church, a Grade II listed building, which has an associated primary school, and nearby Sheldon Hall, a Grade II* listed building.

Wideopen

To the south of the village is the 19th-century Sacred Heart RC Church, a Grade II listed building notable for its stained glass windows, which bear designs by Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and William Morris.

Wolf's Castle

Several churches are to be found in the area – St Margaret's in Wolfscastle itself, St Michael's in Treffgarne, and St Dogfael's at St Dogwells (a grade II* listed building).