1,838 protected sites
Most of these are listed buildings, and most listed buildings are private homes, terraces, walls and milestones rather than places to visit. The scheduled monuments are the older layer: earthworks, ruins, barrows and the remains of things that have no roof left.
- Listed buildings
- 1,761
- Scheduled monuments
- 61
- Parks and gardens
- 15
- Battlefields
- 1
Counted from the National Heritage List for England on 16 September 2026, within 10 miles of the centre of Durham.
9 properties you can visit
Run by National Trust, English Heritage and Historic Houses. These are the places with opening hours and a way in, as opposed to the register entries above.
- Crook HallNational Trust · Durham
- Finchale PrioryEnglish Heritage · Framwellgate Moor
- Ushaw: Historic House, Chapels and GardensHistoric Houses
- Brancepeth CastleHistoric Houses · Brancepeth
- Penshaw MonumentNational Trust · Penshaw
- Auckland Castle Deer HouseEnglish Heritage · Bishop Auckland
- Auckland Palace and GardensHistoric Houses · Bishop Auckland
- Washington Old HallNational Trust · Washington
- Derwentcote Steel FurnaceEnglish Heritage · Rowlands Gill
See all of it on one map
Visit History draws every site above on a single map, so you are not checking seven organisations one at a time. It also carries the Environment Agency LiDAR survey, which shows the shape of the ground itself, and six editions of Ordnance Survey mapping from 1885 onwards. Earthworks that are invisible on the ground and unmarked on modern maps are often obvious on both.