About historic and listed buildings
Pitstone windmill
A listed building is acknowledged by the Secretary of State to be of special architectural or historic interest.
The word building is used very generally and includes buildings such as houses, churches, schools and barns, but also includes items such as walls, tomb stones, milestones, ice houses, bridges and locks, telephone and post boxes.
The responsibility for deciding which buildings have special architectural or historic interest falls to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who has a statutory duty to produce a “list” of such buildings, known as Greenbacks.
18th century brick house
The part of the list covering Aylesbury Vale can be inspected at our offices. There are about 2900 listed buildings in the Vale.
Once listed, a building has special protection under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 and we have additional powers of protection. Owners have extra responsibilities, for example the need to obtain listed building consent for certain work on the building. It is an offence to carry out works to a listed building without consent. Please talk to the Listed Building officer about any work you plan to do on your listed building. A copy of the listed building consent form is available to download at the bottom of this page.
For more information about listed buildings, download our leaflet below.
If you would like to look at a list description yourself, follow the link to Images of England below.The easiest way to search the database is to use the advanced search; this needs you to register for free. Prior to searching, uncheck the box marked "Only show Listed Buildings that have images" as this will provide information on all the listed buildings on the 'Images of England' database. Please note that this information may not be completely comprehensive and if you cannot find the building you are interested in or have any questions about what you find, please contact the Historic Buildings officer.
For more general information on all old buildings please follow the links to the historical societies below.
Date Updated: 30/01/09
Downloads:
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Listed buildings advisory guide | This gives general information about listed buildings | 451KB
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Listed building consent | This is the form for listed building consent for work to your listed building | 1.1MB
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How to look after your witchert building | This is about how witchert buildings and walls are built and how to care for them | 518KB
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Advisory guide on thatching | This gives some historical information about thatching and descritpions of the three main types of thatch in England | 2.2MB
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The conversion of statutory listed historic farm buildings | This gives extra information which needs to be considered when converting a listed farm building | 261KB
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