Old house address check
Enter a postcode, or use your location when you're standing outside, to see the listed buildings, conservation areas and Building Preservation Notices that national records show nearby. Each one links to its official record.
It can't tell you whether a particular house is listed, and it never will. A missing result is not proof of anything. Your council and the official list entry are the authority.
This is not a check of whether a house is listed
It shows what two national datasets record near a point. A listed building can be missing from the results, or sit a few metres from where its marker is placed, and outbuildings and walls can be covered without an entry of their own. Only your council and the official list entry can tell you what applies to a building.
Listed buildings recorded nearby
Conservation area
Building Preservation Notices nearby
Before any work, confirm it
- Ask your council's conservation or planning team. They decide whether consent is needed.Find your local council on GOV.UK
- Read the official list entry for the building onHistoric England's Search the List. The entry, not a marker on a map, describes what is listed.
Why there's no yes or no
Historic England's map data marks each listed building with a point, and for entries listed or substantively amended since 4 April 2011, an outline of the principal building. It says this spatial data is provided solely to indicate location. The centre of a postcode isn't on any particular house, and the location your device reports has its own margin of error. So a marker next door, or none at all, settles nothing.
A listing usually covers more than the building itself. Government guidance says that, unless the list entry says otherwise, it includes objects or structures fixed to the building and, in its grounds (the curtilage), structures that have formed part of the land since before 1 July 1948. It covers the entire building, inside and out.
Working on a listed building without consent, where the work affects its character, is a criminal offence under section 9 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. That is why every result here ends with the same advice: confirm with your council before any work.
Building Preservation Notices
A council can serve a Building Preservation Notice on a building that isn't listed. While it is in force, the law treats the building as if it were listed. It lasts six months from when it was served, and ends sooner if the building is listed or the government decides not to list it.
Conservation areas
The conservation area layer comes from a national dataset that collects boundaries from councils and other sources. The publisher says it may be incomplete and is a work in progress. If it shows nothing, check your council's own conservation area maps.
Looking after old walls
Where the data comes from
- National Heritage List for England (NHLE), listed building points and polygons, Building Preservation Notices Historic England, Open Data Hub. Open Government Licence v3.0. Terms read 14/10/2026. Historic England says spatial data is provided solely to indicate location, and that outlines exist for entries listed or substantively amended since 4 April 2011.
- Conservation area dataset planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government). Open Government Licence v3.0. The publisher says the data may be incomplete and should be treated as a work in progress.
- Postcode lookup postcodes.io, using ONS postcode data. Open Government Licence v3.0. Used only to turn a postcode into a point and a council name.
- Conserving and enhancing the historic environment (planning practice guidance) GOV.UK. What a listing covers, curtilage structures, and the offence of working without consent.
- Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, section 3 legislation.gov.uk. Building Preservation Notices.
This page doesn't store your postcode or location, and doesn't put it in the page address. Results are fetched fresh each time from the services above.