Listed building

A listed building, in the United Kingdom, is a building that has been placed on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. This is a list of buildings that are important in terms of architecture, history, or culture. There are many buildings on this list. In the UK, there are about 500,000 listed buildings.

The Forth Bridge, designed by Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Fowler, opened in 1890, and now owned by Network Rail, is designated as a Category A listed building by Historic Scotland.

In England and Wales, there are three kinds of listed buildings:^[1]

• Grade I: buildings that are very important
• Grade II*: buildings that are important in general (not special interest)
• Grade II: buildings that are special interesting (this means that they are important to some groups or for a specific reason)^[2]

There used to be a fourth kind of listed building: Grade III. This type has not been used since 1970.^[3]

Other websites

• Photographs of listed buildings from English Heritage Archived 2009-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Listed Property Owners Club, providing information & advice for listed property owners
• Information about heritage protection generally
• PASTMAP Map-based database of listed buildings, scheduled monuments etc in Scotland Archived 2013-04-07 at the Wayback Machine
• Birmingham City Council - What is a Locally Listed Building? Archived 2009-08-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Birmingham Local RegisterPDF (364 KB)