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The Industrial Sites Saved as Historic England Publishes 2025 Heritage At Risk Register

The Industrial Sites Saved as Historic England Publishes 2025 Heritage At Risk Register

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Historic England has published the 2025 Heritage at Risk Register. There are 4,891 entries on the Register which covers archaeology, battlefields, buildings and structures, conservation areas, parks and gardens, places of worship, and wrecks. This year, 129 buildings and gardens were taken off the list for positive reasons such as grant funding and/or being repaired. However, 138 were added. 12 of the sites taken off the register are industrial structures.

Claudia Kenyatta CBE and Emma Squire CBE, Co-CEOs of Historic England, said: “The heritage we see all around us impacts how we feel about our local places. The annual Heritage at Risk Register gives us the opportunity to celebrate the many benefits of bringing our historic buildings back into use.”

“The best way to protect our buildings is to reuse them, turning them into places of local connection and joy. The sites that have been saved and have come off the Register this year really highlight the benefits of working together in partnership, and with communities, to create positive, sustainable change. Together we can safeguard our heritage for future generations.”

Industrial sites removed from the ‘At Risk Register’ include:

  • Augill Smelting Mill, North Pennines
  • Bower Spring cementation furnace, Sheffield
  • Etherley Incline, Stockton & Darlington Railway, County Durham 
  • No. 7 Bottle Shop, St Helens
  • Long Shop Museum, Leiston
  • John Taylor & Co Bell Foundry, Loughborough
  • Kingston Telephone Exchange, Ashdown Road, Kingston upon Thames
  • Newland Blast Furnace (Blacking Mill only) in Egton with Newland
  • Papplewick Pumping Station, Nottingham
  • Rockingham Kiln (Swinton Pottery), South Yorkshire
  • Temple Works Gatelodge, Leeds
  • The Triangular Crane and Bumble Hole Boat Yard in Netherton

Industrial sites added to the ‘At Risk Register’ include:

  • Cromford Mills Buildings 26 and 21 (cottages)
  • Teesside Transporter Bridge 

The full updated list for 2025 can be found here: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/heritage-at-risk/findings/

Guidance on adding a site to the Herrtitage At Risk Register can be found here: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/heritage-at-risk/suggest-addition-to-har-register/

The Rockingham Kiln (Swinton Pottery), South Yorkshire, has been removed from the ‘At Risk Register’ in 2025. Image courtesy of Historic England.
The Teesside Transporter Bridge was added to the ‘At Risk Register’ in 2025. Image courtesy of Historic England.
Industrial Sites Added To and Removed From Historic England’s 2022 ‘Heritage at Risk Register’.

Industrial Sites Added To and Removed From Historic England’s 2022 ‘Heritage at Risk Register’.

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In November 2022 Historic England published their annual survey of Heritage at Risk. This year there are 4,919 entries on the Heritage at Risk Register. This identifies the listed or scheduled sites that are most at risk of being lost as a result of neglect, decay, or inappropriate development. Industrial archaeology and industrial heritage sites on this list include museums open to the public as well as privately owned buildings and monuments.

Three industrial sites have been saved from decay in the last 12 months and are no longer on the register: the Carriage Works, Bristol; lock and swingbridge on the Broadwater Estate, Greenwich; and the North Park furnace dam, Chichester.

Ten industrial heritage sites were newly added to the register in 2022: Alford Windmill, Lincolnshire; cementation furnace, Sheffield; coal drops, Sheldon; Cross-in-Hand Windmill, Bexhill; Elsecar Ironworks, Barnsley; Heage Windmill, Derbyshire (above); High Mill cornmill & foundry, Alston, Cumbria; Pakenham Windmill near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk; Papplewick Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire; and Rockingham Kiln in Rotherham.

Dozens of listed and scheduled industrial archaeology and heritage sites remain on the ‘At Risk’ register. For further details including an interactive map follow this link: https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/findings/#4ffdede5