Government heritage adviser Historic England estimates there are more than 500,000 listed buildings in England. The overwhelming majority were granted protected status during Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign. 

But to mark the late Queen’s platinum jubilee earlier this year, six new listings were confirmed by the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport – all at grade II, and all of them with a direct connection to the monarch.

They ranged 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 reflected important social, technical and cultural changes which have taken place in the years since 1952.

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