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the listed buildings of Marbury cum Quoisley in Cheshire , England , include an obelisk , a lychgate (pictured) , a churchyard wall, and half a bridge?
the Carnegie Library in Runcorn , Cheshire , England, was designed in 1906 by the local council's surveyor and water engineer and is now a listed building ?
the listed buildings in Poole , Cheshire , England, include a pinfold or cattle pound?
the Grade I-listed St. Bartholomew's Church, Brighton , England , was described as a "monster excrescence", "a cheese warehouse" and a "brick parallelogram " by some of its detractors at a heated Council meeting in 1893?
the gate piers of Ferne Park , a country house built in 2001 in Wiltshire , England , are Grade II listed structures ?
the Grade I listed Franks Hall , in Horton Kirby , Kent , England , was used as a barn in the 1850s?
the Daily Express Building (pictured) , an Art Deco former printing press , is one of Manchester 's only listed buildings constructed in the 1930s?
the Lewes Free Presbyterian Church , affiliated with Ian Paisley 's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster , occupies a listed building that was formerly a Strict Baptist chapel?
while Peover Hall in Cheshire , England (pictured) , is a Grade II* listed building , its stable block is listed Grade I because of its elaborate internal architecture?
while the 19th-century writer Samuel Lewis described the Welsh church of St Mary, Tal-y-llyn (pictured) as "a small edifice of no interest", it is now one of the most highly rated listed buildings in the country?
there are 94 buildings with listed status in Crawley , England , including The Beehive , a circular Art Deco building that was the world's first integrated airport terminal ?
the Vintners Parrot pub in Worthing , West Sussex , occupies a Grade II-listed Greek Revival-style former wine merchants premises and a Grade II-listed former Methodist chapel?
the 17 buildings with Category A listed status in Clackmannanshire , Scotland , include a glass cone ?
the 24 buildings with Grade I listed status in Brighton and Hove , England, include the ruined West Pier —damaged by a succession of fires and storms?
modernist architect Peter Womersley (1923–1993) designed a house and studio for the textile designer Bernat Klein , both of which are now Category A listed buildings ?
although Archibald Leitch was the foremost football stadium architect in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century , only two of his works have been listed for preservation?
Harrington Bridge is a listed building , except for the central section which crosses the River Trent into Derbyshire, England ?
Labworth Café , built in 1932, is the only example of the architectural design of Ove Arup and was made a Listed building in 1996?
buildings with Grade II* listed status in Brighton and Hove , England , include the Royal Albion Hotel , wrecked in 1998 by a fire that started in a pan of sausages?
Fitznells Manor , the last surviving manor house in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey , UK , and a Grade 2 listed building , is now used by a medical practice?
listed buildings in Minshull Vernon , Cheshire , include five canal bridges, two aqueducts and a former privy ?
listed structures in the parish of Acton in Cheshire include an aqueduct (pictured) , sundial , icehouse , clock tower , telephone box and a statue of a dog upsetting a food bowl?
the range of buildings with listed status in Worthing , West Sussex , includes a lamp-post, a dovecote and a sculpture of four male heads?
Burgess Hill , Hadlow Down , Hastings , Newick , Pell Green , Rye , Shover's Green and Southover in Sussex each have a Grade II-listed former Baptist chapel which has been converted to residential use?
St Mary's Church in Cheadle , Greater Manchester , England , a Grade I listed building , was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century?
St Mary's Church, Derwen , Denbighshire , Wales, is listed Grade I because it possesses an exceptionally complete rood screen and loft and otherwise retains much of its medieval character?
St Lawrence's Church , a listed building in Stoak , Cheshire , England , has a Tudor hammerbeam roof , a Jacobean altar , a Georgian pulpit , an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II ?
St Barnabas Church , one of the few Grade II*-listed churches in the city of Brighton and Hove , was dismissed by its architect John Loughborough Pearson as "one of my cheap editions"?
Sheldon Manor , a Grade I listed building , is Wiltshire 's longest continuously inhabited manor house ?
St Baglan's Church , a medieval church in Llanfaglan , Gwynedd , Wales, is listed Grade I because it is unrestored, and has an exceptionally complete set of 18th-century furnishings?
listed building St Leonard's Church (pictured) in Brighton and Hove was on Church Road , but is now on New Church Road after another church was built?
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Question 3 : ________ , City of London, is an example of a site which includes buildings of different Grades, II and II*
Question 4 : [ 10] Forty five per cent of Grade I buildings are ________ parish churches.
Question 7 : ________ (other parts of the castle are also listed A, B or C(s))
Question 9 : [ 5] After the Firestone demolition, the Secretary of State for the Environment ________ also initiated a complete re-survey of buildings to ensure there was nothing which merited preservation and had been missed off the lists.
Question 10 : In ________ , this complex system may be rationalised under the Heritage Protection Review (see below).
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