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Top Ten Endangered Building Archives

Every year, The Victorian Society publishes a list of England and Wales’s top ten endangered buildings. The most recent list is below; click through to find more information on each one.

Since 2010, this list has included some of our most important and iconic buildings that we work to protect. You can view the archive at the bottom of this page.

Top 10 Endangered Buildings 2025

Landmark Liverpool house Gwalia on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings List 2025

  The Victorian Society has included this dignified, but decaying house, listed as Gwalia, but also known as Sandfield Tower, on its Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025 list. Griff Rhys…

Ground-breaking Norfolk early concrete building placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025

33 – 39 St James Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk. Grade II, A. F. Scott, 1908 The Victorian Society has placed this extraordinary early example of modernist design and concrete construction…

Huddersfield cemetery chapel on Top Ten Endangered Buildings List 2025

Edgerton Cemetery Chapel, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, Grade II, James Pritchett, circa 1853 – 1855 This fine, decaying West Yorkshire mortuary chapel has been included on the Society’s Top Ten Endangered…

Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Gibson Street Baths placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025

Gibson Street Baths, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Grade II, F. H. Holford, 1906 –1907 Included on the Society’s 2025 list of Top Ten Endangered Buildings is this proud but crumbling Edwardian building. Griff…

Birmingham’s Methodist Central Hall towering symbol of West Midland city’s civic and cultural history placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025

Grade II*, Ewen & J. Alfred Harper, 1900 – 1903 The Victorian Society has placed this landmark Grade II*-listed Birmingham building on its Top Ten Endangered Buildings List 2025. Griff…

Aldermaston Court witness to the earliest days of the atomic age placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025

Aldermaston Court, Aldermaston, Berkshire. Grade II*, P C Hardwick, 1848-51, Brightwen & Binyon, 1894 The Victorian Society has placed rambling mansion Aldermaston Court on its Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025 list….

Torquay Pavilion, jewel-box like seaside venue, placed on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025

Torquay Pavilion, Torquay, Devon. Grade II, Architect: Edward Richards, 1911 & H.A. Garrett The exquisite Edwardian, art nouveau building that was once the centre of Torquay’s cultural life has been…

Former dockside hotel in Penarth features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025

The former Marine Hotel in Penarth, South Glamorgan in South Wales, is on the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025. Tragically, the Grade II listed Marine Hotel, dating…

Birley Spa the last remaining Victorian bath house in South Yorkshire on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025 list

Birley Spa, Hackenthorpe, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.  Grade II, 1842 -1843 Griff Rhys Jones OBE, Victorian Society President said: ‘It doesn’t take much imagination to see that Birley could so easily…

Bosworth Park Water Tower features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025

Bosworth Park Water Tower in Market Bosworth is on the Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025. The Grade II listed building, by architect Thomas Garner, dates from around…

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