Key to the entries

Heritage at Risk Register

Designation

The register includes the following heritage assets at risk:

• Grade I and II* listed buildings and structural scheduled monuments
• Grade II listed buildings in London
• Scheduled monuments
• Registered parks and gardens (including cemeteries)
• Registered battlefields
• Protected wreck sites

Key to the Entries

Designation

The lead designation is noted for each entry, and includes:

• Listed Building Grade I, II* or II
• Scheduled Monument
• Registered Park and Garden Grade I, II* or II
• Registered Battlefield
• Protected Wreck Site
• Conservation Area
• World Heritage Site

For buildings and registered parks and gardens, other designations that apply to each site are also noted.

Condition

For buildings at risk, condition is graded as:

• very bad
• poor
• fair
• good

For sites that cover areas (scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens and wreck sites) one overall condition category is recorded. The category may relate only to the one part of the site or monument that is at risk and not the whole site:

• extensive significant problems (ie under plough, collapse)
• generally unsatisfactory with major localised problems
• generally satisfactory but with significant localised problems
• generally satisfactory but with minor localised problems
• optimal (ie the best we can realistically expect to achieve)
• significant decline
• unknown

‘Unknown’ is noted for a number of scheduled monuments that are below-ground and where their condition cannot be established.

Vulnerability 

Principal Vulnerability is noted for scheduled monuments and may relate only to the part of the monument which is at risk, and include:

• Arable ploughing
• Coastal erosion
• Collapse
• Deterioration
• Extensive animal burrowing
• Extensive visitor erosion
• Scrub / tree growth

For registered parks and gardens, vulnerability is noted as:

• high
• medium
• low

Occupancy

For buildings that can be occupied or have a use, the main vulnerability is vacancy, or under-use. Occupancy (or use) and is noted as follows:

• vacant
• part occupied
• occupied
• unknown

Trend

Trend for scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields and wreck sites may relate only to the part of the site that is at risk and is categorised as:

• declining
• stable
• improving
• unknown

Priority

For buildings at risk, the following priority categories are used as an indication of trend and as a means of prioritising action:

A  Immediate risk of further rapid deterioration or loss of fabric; no solution agreed.
B  Immediate risk of further rapid deterioration or loss of fabric; solution agreed but not yet implemented.
C  Slow decay; no solution agreed.
D  Slow decay; solution agreed but not yet implemented.
E  Under repair or in fair to good repair, but no user identified; or under threat of vacancy with no obvious new user (applicable only to buildings capable of beneficial use).
F  Repair scheme in progress and (where applicable) end use or user identified; functionally redundant buildings with new use agreed but not yet implemented.

Ownership

Many scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, and battlefields are in divided ownership.
The principal ownership category is given, and for registered parks and gardens, single or multiple ownership is noted.

The categories used are:

• Charity
• Company
• Corporate, multiple owners
• Crown
• Educational body
• English Heritage
• Former public utility
• Government or agency
• Health authority
• Housing association
• Local authority
• Mixed, multiple owners
• Other
• Private
• Quango
• Religious organisation
• Trust
• Unknown
• Utility

Contact

This is the member of the English Heritage regional team who acts as a first point of contact for the case, and to whom enquiries should be addressed.

For Grade II listed buildings, the contact is the conservation officer at the relevant local planning authority (indicated by ‘LA’ on the register).

We are not in any sense agents for the owners of the sites included, but we will endeavour to put people in touch with them where appropriate.