In a previous blog my colleague Duncan Petrie looked at Grade II* Listed properties in Kent, reporting that there are an estimated 950 such buildings in that county alone. So how does this compare with elsewhere?

If you include all scheduled monuments, listed buildings, registered landscapes and battlefields and protected wrecks, the list held by Historic England holds almost 400,000 entries. Using the tool on Historic England’s website, you can see how many listed buildings there are in each region. In Derbyshire, for example, there are two Grade II* and 9 Grade II Listed buildings.

If you want to know if a building is listed without checking the register, a general rule of thumb is that the older a building, the more likely it is to be listed. Pretty much all buildings that predate 1700 are listed; as are most of those built between 1700 and 1840. Those less than 30 years old are unlikely to be on the register yet.

However, the greatest percentage of Listed buildings – at 91.7 per cent – are Grade II Listed so these are the homes that come up for sale most often. Here are six of the finest currently on the market.

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