Government heritage adviser Historic England has confirmed a batch of new listed buildings which celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee.

Six historic sites – all with a direct connection to the monarch – have been granted grade II-listed status by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to mark the Queen’s 70 years on the throne.

They range in age from a Victorian hotel to a 1990s public-records building and in scale from a post-war church in Birmingham to markers on the M62 motorway. The choices also reflect important social, technical and cultural changes which have taken place in the years since 1952.

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