Protected Sites
The Register of Protected Sites is the authoritative record of every site, building, monument, conservation area and landscape protected by the Heritage Office of the Velocity Interoperability Network. An entry on the Register means that the site has been assessed against the Office's criteria, that its interest has been set out in a written statement, and that works affecting it require the Office's consent.
The Register opened on 6 September 2026 with eighteen entries. Each was drawn from the lists formerly kept by member organisations, inspected by the Office during the transition period and confirmed on the common criteria now applied across the Network. Every entry carries a reference number, a statement of the reasons for designation and a map of the protected extent, which may be requested by writing to the Office.
- 18
- Entries on the Register at establishment on 6 September 2026
- 6
- Scheduled monuments, from prehistoric earthworks to an early twentieth-century crane
- 8
- Listed buildings, of which two at Grade I and six at Grade II
- 4
- Conservation areas and registered landscapes
Designations. The Office uses four designations. They differ in what they protect and in how far the protection extends.
- Scheduled monument
- An archaeological site, earthwork, structure or object of national importance to the Network, protected in its entirety. Any works that would disturb a scheduled monument, above or below ground, require consent. Scheduled monuments are not graded.
- Listed building
- A building or structure of special architectural or historic interest. Grade I is reserved for buildings of exceptional interest; Grade II for buildings of special interest that warrant every effort to preserve them. Listing covers the whole building, inside and out, and any structure attached to it.
- Conservation area
- An area whose character or appearance as a whole is of special interest, such as a square, a quarter of warehouses or a village. Protection applies to the area rather than to individual buildings, and to the demolition of unlisted buildings and the felling of trees within it.
- Registered landscape
- A park, garden or designed landscape of special historic interest. Registration protects the layout, planting and structures that make up the design. Works that would alter the layout require consent.
The Register. The entries below are listed in order of reference number. The period given is that of the principal surviving fabric; many sites contain work of more than one period. The Register is updated on this page as entries are added, amended or removed, and each change is announced in the Newsroom.
| Reference | Site | Location | Designation | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR 0001 | Central Exchange Hall | Central Exchange | Listed building, Grade I | Nineteenth century |
| HR 0002 | Exchange Clock Tower | Central Exchange | Listed building, Grade II | Late nineteenth century |
| HR 0003 | Old Telegraph Office | Central Exchange | Listed building, Grade II | Late nineteenth century |
| HR 0004 | Exchange Square | Central Exchange | Conservation area | Eighteenth to twentieth century |
| HR 0005 | Northgate Relay Tower | Northgate Relay | Scheduled monument | Early twentieth century |
| HR 0006 | Northgate Ramparts | Northgate Relay | Scheduled monument | Medieval |
| HR 0007 | Old Signal House | Northgate Relay | Listed building, Grade II | Nineteenth century |
| HR 0008 | Southbank Terminal Building | Southbank Terminal | Listed building, Grade I | Nineteenth century |
| HR 0009 | Ferry Steps | Southbank Terminal | Listed building, Grade II | Eighteenth century |
| HR 0010 | Riverside Crane No. 3 | Southbank Terminal | Scheduled monument | Early twentieth century |
| HR 0011 | Southbank Warehouse Quarter | Southbank Terminal | Conservation area | Nineteenth century |
| HR 0012 | Eastfield Quadrangle | Eastfield Campus | Listed building, Grade II | Mid twentieth century |
| HR 0013 | Eastfield Observatory Mound | Eastfield Campus | Scheduled monument | Prehistoric |
| HR 0014 | Westbrook Mill Race and Weir | Westbrook Distribution Site | Scheduled monument | Medieval |
| HR 0015 | Westbrook Goods Shed | Westbrook Distribution Site | Listed building, Grade II | Nineteenth century |
| HR 0016 | Westbrook Village | Westbrook Distribution Site | Conservation area | Seventeenth to nineteenth century |
| HR 0017 | Meridian Court Gardens | Meridian Court | Registered landscape | Eighteenth century |
| HR 0018 | Meridian Line Boundary Stones | Meridian Court | Scheduled monument | Eighteenth century |
Four of the eighteen entries lie within the principal site of Central Exchange, the oldest settled part of the Network, and four at Southbank Terminal. The two Grade I listed buildings, the Central Exchange Hall and the Southbank Terminal Building, are the buildings from which the Network's two founding member organisations were first administered. The Eastfield Observatory Mound is the only prehistoric entry and the Meridian Line Boundary Stones, a line of eleven marker stones, the only entry made up of separate objects.
Entries held for assessment. Of the thirty-one entries the Office reviewed from the lists of member organisations, nine were held rather than confirmed. In each case the Office was satisfied that the site was likely to merit protection but could not confirm the entry without further work. These sites are not protected while they are held, but the Office has asked the responsible organisations to notify it before any works are carried out. Decisions are expected by the end of December 2026.
| Site | Location | Proposed designation | Reason held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exchange Underpass Murals | Central Exchange | Listed building | Authorship and date to be established |
| Northgate Cable Hut | Northgate Relay | Listed building | Extent of surviving original fabric to be verified |
| Southbank Pilot Station | Southbank Terminal | Listed building | Ownership to be confirmed before consultation |
| Terminal Approach Railings | Southbank Terminal | Listed building | Group value with the Terminal Building under assessment |
| Eastfield Chapel | Eastfield Campus | Listed building | Interior to be inspected |
| Eastfield Boundary Bank | Eastfield Campus | Scheduled monument | Archaeological evaluation required |
| Westbrook Toll House | Westbrook Distribution Site | Listed building | Later alterations to be assessed |
| Westbrook Bridge | Westbrook Distribution Site | Scheduled monument | Structural survey outstanding |
| Meridian Court Ice House | Meridian Court | Listed building | Condition to be assessed following partial collapse |
Four further entries were declined, chiefly on grounds of survival: too little of the original fabric remained for the site to be understood. The organisations that had listed them have been given the reasons in writing and may make a fresh proposal if new evidence comes to light.
Enquiries about the Register, including requests for the statement of reasons or the map of a particular entry, and notice of any error in an entry, may be sent to contact@heritage.gov.vin. For the condition of entries on the Register, see Heritage at Risk; for the categories of building and monument the Office records, see Buildings and Monuments; for figures on the Register by site and designation, see Statistics.