Written by Emily Gee, Head of Designation at Historic England How did listing start? Listing emerged as a legal system of protecting England’s most precious buildings during the Second World War. The first lists were compiled as an emergency measure to identify what should be protected in post-war rebuilding. The next generation of more systematic lists on a geographical (parish) basis were heroic in their scale, but inevitably quite brief in their descriptions and often done from the road, sometimesRead more![]()
