National Heritage List for England

National Heritage List For England
Formation 2011 (2011)
Headquarters Historic England, Fourth Floor, Cannon Bridge House, 25 Dowgate Hill, London, EC4R 2YA
Region
England
Duncan Wilson OBE
Interim Director of Listing
Gillian Grayson
Director of Finance, HR and IMT
Meryl Hayward
Parent organization
Historic England
Budget
£ 86.5 million (2016/17)

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is Historic England's official list of buildings, monuments, parks and gardens, wrecks, battlefields, World Heritage Sites and other heritage assets considered worthy of preservation. Properties on the list, or located within a conservation area, are protected from being altered or demolished without special permission from local government planning authorities.

The passage of the Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1882 established the first part of what the list is today, it established a list of 50 prehistoric monuments which were protected by the state. Further amendments to this act increased the levels of protection and added more monuments to the list. The Town and Country Planning Acts created the first listed buildings and the process for adding properties to it. As of 2018, more than 600,000 properties are listed individually. Each year additional properties are added to the National Register as part of the different constituent registers that are part of the list.

The National Heritage List for England was launched in 2011 as the statutory list of all designated historic places including listed buildings and scheduled monuments.[1]

The list is managed by Historic England (formerly known as English Heritage), and is available as an on-line database with 400,000 listed buildings, registered parks, gardens and battlefields, protected shipwrecks and scheduled monuments. A unique reference number, the NHLE Code, is frequently used to refer to the related database entry, such as 1285296 – this example is for Douglas House; a Grade II* listed building in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.[2]

See also

  • Template:National Heritage List for England — the template used for generating a formatted citation containing the targeted external link.

References

  1. "The National Heritage List for England has gone live". The Historical Association. 7 April 2011. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
  2. Historic England. "Douglas House (1285296)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 26 February 2017.


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