Listed buildings in the United Kingdom
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This is a list of Listed Buildings in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

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The organization of the lists in this series is on the same basis as the statutory registers, which generally rely on counties. For England and Wales, the county names are broadly those of the ceremonial counties of England
Ceremonial counties of England
The ceremonial counties are areas of England to which are appointed a Lord Lieutenant, and are defined by the government as counties and areas for the purposes of the Lieutenancies Act 1997 with reference to the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England and Lieutenancies Act 1997...

 and Wales and do not always match the current administrative areas, whereas in most cases they parallel the current subdivisions of Scotland
Subdivisions of Scotland
For local government purposes, Scotland is divided into 32 areas designated as "council areas" which are all governed by unitary authorities designated as "councils"...

. In Northern Ireland the province's six traditional counties
Counties of Ireland
The counties of Ireland are sub-national divisions used for the purposes of geographic demarcation and local government. Closely related to the county is the County corporate which covered towns or cities which were deemed to be important enough to be independent from their counties. A county...

 are used, and these are unchanged in modern times.

Different classifications of listed buildings are used in different parts of the United Kingdom:
  • England and Wales
    England and Wales
    England and Wales is a jurisdiction within the United Kingdom. It consists of England and Wales, two of the four countries of the United Kingdom...

    : Grade I, Grade II* and Grade II;
  • Scotland
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

    : Category A, Category B and Category C(s)
  • Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

    : Grade A, Grade B+, Grade B1 and Grade B2

# of Sites
England
# of Sites
Scotland
# of Sites
Wales
# of Sites
Northern Ireland
# of Sites
Total
Grade I n/a n/a >6,000
Grade II* n/a n/a ~18,000
Grade II n/a n/a ~418,000
Category A n/a ~3,800 n/a n/a ~3,800
Category B n/a n/a n/a
Category C(s) n/a n/a n/a
Grade A n/a n/a n/a ~200 ~200
Grade B+ n/a n/a n/a ~400 ~400
Grade B1 n/a n/a n/a
Grade B2 n/a n/a n/a
Total ~372,905 ~47,400 ~8,500 ~442,000

Listed buildings in the United Kingdom

The lists for the countries of the UK are at:

External Links

Full list. Many of the entries are private houses or village churches which are unlikely to have a Wikipedia page of their own.
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