English Heritage focuses on Grade II Buildings at Rosk

There are some 82, 264 Grade II buildings in the South West, accounting for 91.9% of all listed buildings in the region. Beautiful, historic or architecturally special, they are the houses, cottages, shops, inns, offices, schools, town halls, libraries, farms, and other special buildings that shape the character of the South West.

Andrew Vines, Planning Director for English Heritage in the South West said: "Grade II listed buildings are the bulk of the South West's heritage treasury. When one of them is lost, it's as though someone has rubbed out a bit of the past - something that made your street or your village special will have gone.

English Heritage has embarked on an ambitious programme to find out how the one major element of our heritage not already covered by the Register - the nation's Grade II listed buildings - can be assessed. Adding the South West's Grade II buildings found to be at risk from neglect, decay or dereliction to the national At Risk Register would be a first step to securing their future.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/news/southwests-gradeII-buildings-at-risk/

EH launches 2012 Heritage at Risk Register and focuses on Burial Grounds and Cemetries

English Heritage has launched the Heritage at Risk Register 2012. It reveals that 524 of London's listed buildings, 35 scheduled monuments, 12 registered parks and gardens, and 65 conservation areas are at risk. Despite economic difficulties, the percentage of Grade I and II* buildings at risk in London continues to reduce slightly, down to 3.8% from 4.2% last year.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/news/burial-grounds-cemeteries-har-challenge-london/