Template:National Heritage List for England

Historic England. "Details from listed building database ({{{num}}})". National Heritage List for England.

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This template is used to provide a link to the Historic England — National Heritage List for England (NHLE) database (https://HistoricEngland.org.uk/listing/the-list/) for a specified listed building or object in [ngland.

For listed buildings, the database records all those in England, and is updated as changes to entries are made, and new listings are added.

The database also contains the following registered historic locations or sites in England:

• Historic Parks and Gardens
• Scheduled monuments
• Protected wrecks
• Historic battlefields
• World Heritage sites

Usage

Required parameter

• num: the 'list entry number' from the database .

Optional parameters

Additional information for the title:

• desc: additional text description such as the name of the building or site; useful if there are several listed objects in an article. If this parameter is not used, default text 'Details from listed building database' will be displayed instead.
• grade: to display the Grade of a listed building; enter as II, II* or I. Only appears if |desc= is also used.
• author: defaults to Historic England, but can be changed to another name if desired
• author-link: defaults to Historic England, but is not set by default if author is set to something other than Historic England
• date: the date provided by Historic England; can be a full or partial date
• year: the year provided by Historic England; use of |date= is recommended, see Template:Cite web/doc#Date for proper usage
• orig-date: the year information was first provided by Historic England; only appears if |date= or |year= is also used
• access-date: the date a Wikipedia editor retrieved information from the Historic England list database.
• mode: defaults to |mode=cs1; set to |mode=cs2 to provide consistency with citation style 2, as produced by {{citation}}
• postscript: controls the closing punctuation for the citation; defaults to a period (.); for no terminating punctuation, set to |postscript=none, however using |mode=cs2 does this automatically
• fewer-links: use |fewer-links=yes to remove repeated wikilinks where the template is used more than once in an article
• ref: defaults to author (Historic England) and the Historic England List Number, but can be reset to any value
• short: use |short=yes with |num= to produce an external link with just the list number shown; |short=yes suppresses the display of other parameters.

All {{Cite web}} parameters are available.

Examples

{{National Heritage List for England|num=1188692}} displays as:

Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1188692)". National Heritage List for England.

{{National Heritage List for England|num=1188692|short=yes}} displays as:

1188692

{{National Heritage List for England|num=1188692|desc=Southgate Underground station}} displays as:

Historic England. "Southgate Underground station (1188692)". National Heritage List for England.

{{National Heritage List for England|num=1188692|desc=Southgate Underground station|grade=II*|access-date=1 August 2026}} displays as:

Historic England. "Southgate Underground station (Grade II*) (1188692)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 August 2026.

{{National Heritage List for England|num=1162800|desc=Church of St Michael and All Angels, Ashton-under-Lyne|access-date=1 August 2026|mode=cs2}} displays as:

Historic England, "Church of St Michael and All Angels, Ashton-under-Lyne (1162800)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 1 August 2026

If a short citation is required (not to be confused with |short=) and one of the {{Harvard citation}} templates or {{sfn}} is used then {{Harvard citation|Historic England|Historic England list entry number}} will link the short reference to the long one. For example, {{harv|Historic England|1162800}} produces (Historic England & 1162800) that links to the 'Church of St Michael and All Angels' example above. This is different from the standard use of the {{harvard citation}} that links using the parameters 'author' and 'date' or 'year'.

Some articles (e.g. Kingston upon Hull) have multiple entries. |fewer-links=yes can be used to remove the repeated internal wikilinks from any additional and subsequent instances of the template:
{{National Heritage List for England|num=1001519|desc=East Park, Hull}}
{{National Heritage List for England|num=1001520|desc=Pearson Park|fewer-links=yes}} displays as:

Historic England. "East Park, Hull (1001519)". National Heritage List for England.

Historic England. "Pearson Park (1001520)". National Heritage List for England.

Template data

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Provides an external link to an entry on Historic England's National Heritage List for England (NHLE) database of heritage assets

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
num	num	the 'list entry number' from the database	Number	required
desc	desc	Additional text description, such as the name of the building or site. Useful if there are several listed objects in an article. If this parameter is not used, default text 'Details from listed building database' will be displayed instead. Default Details from listed building database	String	suggested
grade	grade	to display the Grade of a listed building: enter as 'II', 'II*' or 'I', only appears if desc is also used	String	optional
author	author	defaults to 'Historic England', but can be changed to another name if desired Default Historic England	String	optional
author-link	author-link	defaults to 'Historic England', but is not set by default if author is set to something other than Historic England Default Historic England	String	optional
date	date	the date provided by Historic England; can be a full or partial date	String	optional
year	year	the year provided by Historic England; use of date parameter is recommended	String	optional
orig-date	orig-date origyear orig-year	the year information was first provided by Historic England; only appears if date or year parameter is also used	String	optional
access-date	access-date accessdate	the date a Wikipedia editor retrieved and/or verified information from the Historic England list database Auto value {{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	suggested
mode	mode	defaults to 'cs1'; set to 'cs2' to provide consistency with Citation style 2, as produced by {{citation}}	String	optional
postscript	postscript	controls the closing punctuation for the citation; defaults to a period (.); for no terminating punctuation set to none, however using mode=cs2 does this automatically	String	optional
fewer-links	fewer-links	set to 'yes' to remove repeated wikilinks to 'Historic England' and 'National Heritage List for England', where the template is used more than once in an article	String	optional
ref	ref	defaults to author and the Historic England list number, but can be set to any value	String	optional
short	short	use 'yes' with just the num parameter to produce an external link with just the list number shown; suppresses the display of other parameters	String	optional

Tracking categories

• Category:Historic England citations needing attention (2)

  This tracks pages which have an empty |num= field.

See also

• {{Historic England research records}} — provides a link to the Historic England research records available through the Heritage Gateway, which replaced the PastScape section of the Historic England Archive (HEA), formerly known as the National Monuments Record (NMR)
• {{National Historic Assets of Wales}} - provides a link to a Cadw National Historic Assets of Wales list entry.
• {{Historic Environment Scotland}} - provides a link to items on the Historic Environment Scotland database.

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