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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.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t

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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.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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Top 10 Endangered Buildings 2025<\/h3>
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Landmark Liverpool house Gwalia on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings List 2025<\/h3>\n
  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…<\/div>\n
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Ground-breaking Norfolk early concrete building placed on Victorian Society\u2019s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025<\/h3>\n
33 \u2013 39 St James Street, King\u2019s Lynn, Norfolk. Grade II, A. F. Scott, 1908 The Victorian Society has placed this extraordinary early example of modernist design and concrete construction…<\/div>\n
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Huddersfield cemetery chapel on Top Ten Endangered Buildings List 2025<\/h3>\n
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…<\/div>\n
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne\u2019s Gibson Street Baths placed on Victorian Society\u2019s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025<\/h3>\n
Gibson Street Baths, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Grade II, F. H. Holford, 1906 \u20131907 Included on the Society’s 2025 list of Top Ten Endangered Buildings is this proud but crumbling Edwardian building. Griff…<\/div>\n
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Birmingham\u2019s Methodist Central Hall towering symbol of West Midland city\u2019s civic and cultural history placed on Victorian Society\u2019s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025<\/h3>\n
Grade II*, Ewen & J. Alfred Harper, 1900 \u2013 1903 The Victorian Society has placed this landmark Grade II*-listed Birmingham building on its Top Ten Endangered Buildings List 2025. Griff…<\/div>\n
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Aldermaston Court witness to the earliest days of the atomic age placed on Victorian Society\u2019s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025<\/h3>\n
Aldermaston Court, Aldermaston, Berkshire. Grade II*, P C Hardwick, 1848-51, Brightwen & Binyon, 1894 The Victorian Society\u00a0has placed rambling mansion Aldermaston Court on its Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025 list….<\/div>\n
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Torquay Pavilion, jewel-box like seaside venue, placed on Victorian Society\u2019s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025<\/h3>\n
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\u2019s cultural life has been…<\/div>\n
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Former dockside hotel in Penarth features on Victorian Society\u2019s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025<\/h3>\n
The former Marine Hotel in Penarth, South Glamorgan in South Wales, is on the Victorian Society\u2019s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025. Tragically, the Grade II listed Marine Hotel, dating…<\/div>\n
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Birley Spa the last remaining Victorian bath house in South Yorkshire on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings 2025 list<\/h3>\n
Birley Spa, Hackenthorpe, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.\u00a0 Grade II, 1842 -1843 Griff Rhys Jones OBE, Victorian Society President said: \u2018It doesn\u2019t take much imagination to see that Birley could so easily…<\/div>\n
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Bosworth Park Water Tower features on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025<\/h3>\n
Bosworth Park Water Tower in Market Bosworth is on the Victorian Society\u2019s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2025. The Grade II listed building, by architect Thomas Garner, dates from around…<\/div>\n
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