Heritage at Risk: Latest Findings
There are 4,891 entries on the Heritage at Risk Register in 2025.
We published our most recent Heritage at Risk Register on 6 November 2025. Our Register identifies sites most at risk of being lost as a result of neglect, decay or inappropriate development.
Our regional teams work with communities, owners, developers, and funders to focus on the country's most vulnerable historic places and find solutions to rescue them.
Heritage at Risk in 2025
Historic places saved in 2025
Over the last year, 129 entries have been removed from the Register for positive reasons. Looking after and investing in these historic buildings and sites is key to creating successful places that help to improve people's lives.
The buildings and sites rescued from the Heritage at Risk Register can:
- help boost people's pride in their local place
- level up economic opportunity
- support skilled local construction jobs
- build resilience in private and public organisations
- boost tourism
- positively impact on the wellbeing of people and communities
Reusing historic buildings and taking care of our building stock also speaks directly to addressing climate change.
Mile Cross and Wensum Parks, Norwich
Mile Cross Gardens and Wensum Park in Norwich, designed in the 1920s by Captain AE Sandys-Winsch as part of pioneering social housing schemes, were once elegant green spaces built by unemployed war veterans but have now been added to the 2025 Heritage at Risk Register.
Years of underinvestment have left their historic features in decay, but Norwich City Council, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, is planning restoration with help from local communities.
What's new in 2025?
In 2025, 129 entries were removed from the Register for positive reasons, and 138 were added.
Grant aid
Grant aid from Historic England and other funders is one reason for removals. In 2024/25 Historic England gave grant aid of £7.4 million to 123 entries (including conservation areas) on the Heritage at Risk Register.
Challenges ahead
Heritage sites continue to be added to the Register every year. In 2025 there were 138 new entries, made up of 63 buildings and structures, 58 places of worship, 10 archaeology entries, 4 park and garden entries and 4 conservation areas.
Looking to the future, the Heritage at Risk programme will continue to grow and evolve, finding new ways to involve communities in caring for and enjoying their heritage.
St Mary the Virgin, Silverton, Devon
Recent work on the 15th-century Grade I listed Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin in Silverton, Devon, has revealed original oak ceilings. Dating work by Historic England shows differing medieval craftsmanship between the aisles.
Hidden for over 200 years, the ceilings are in poor condition and need urgent conservation to preserve their rare historic features leading the church to be added to the 2025 Heritage at Risk Register.
Finding solutions
Through advising communities and owners, working in partnership with others, and targeting our own grant where it is most needed, we will continue to reduce heritage at risk.
Sadly, some owners do not take responsibility for the condition of their sites. In these cases, Historic England can assist local planning authorities in exercising their statutory powers to prompt action.
Historic England can provide bespoke advice to councils, and we can also offer grants to support the cost of underwriting action.
Heritage at Risk is an Official Statistic
As well as publishing the Heritage at Risk Register in November of each year, Historic England releases statistics relating to Heritage at Risk each August which are defined as Official Statistics. They are accompanied by a Method Statement outlining how the statistics are collected and presented.
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