Five places, including a London cabbie’s shelter, a First World War wireless station and a “hobbit house” in Yorkshire, have been listed to mark 70 years of protecting England’s historic buildings.
Listing was “born from destruction”, following widespread bombing in Second World War – the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 established the system we know today. The list now has around 400,000 entries including 710 windmills, 514 pigsties, 262 palaces, 72 piers, 16 plague crosses, 13 dung pits, three scoreboards, two fairground rides and one rocket.