This is a list of Registered Buildings and Conservation Areas of the Isle of Man. It includes buildings and structures in the
Isle of Man
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designated by
Isle of Man's Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture (DEFA) "as having special architectural or historical interest". Over 250 buildings and structures are listed, and 275 more have been identified as having potential for listing.
It also lists the 21 Conservation Areas,
historic districts
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from cer ...
" which protect "period"-type architecture, quality of building materials, relationships of enclosures and open spaces, and other aspects of the look and feel of historic buildings and areas.
Ongoing enforcement and registration of buildings is administered by a Planning and Building Control Directorate, within DEFA, and is guided by a planning policy document on conservation of the historic environment.
DEFA notes that eight of the registered buildings have
thatched roofs
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge ('' Cladium mariscus''), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk o ...
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[ Thatching in the Isle of Man include a group of thatched houses at Cregneash Folk Museum, which are ]Manx National Heritage
Manx National Heritage ( gv, Eiraght Ashoonagh Vannin) is the national heritage organisation for the Isle of Man. The organisation manages a significant proportion of the island’s physical heritage assets including over 3,000 acres of coastlin ...
property, whose buildings and land are excluded from the register.
DEFA notes that ten are designed by noted architect Baillie Scott.[ A number are designed by, or associated with, architect Thomas Brine.][ Thomas Brine is associated with St Paul's, Ramsey, ]Old House of Keys
The Old House of Keys ( gv, Shenn-thie y Chiare as Feed) is the former meeting place of the House of Keys, the lower house of Tynwald, the Isle of Man's parliament. It is located across the street from Castle Rushen in Castletown, the former c ...
, the Herring Tower, and Westwood, The Crofts.
The Alliance for Building Conservation, a consortium of heritage groups on the Isle of Man, was organised in 2014–15 and has advocated for more preservation of buildings. It had concerns in 2015 about a backlog for registration of heritage buildings.Douglas
Douglas may refer to:
People
* Douglas (given name)
* Douglas (surname)
Animals
* Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking
*Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civi ...
, and swaths in towns of Peel, Castletown, and Ramsey
Ramsey may refer to:
Geography British Isles
* Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, a small market town in England
* Ramsey, Essex, a village near Harwich, England
** Ramsey and Parkeston, a civil parish formerly called just "Ramsey"
* Ramsey, Isle of Man, t ...
, and sections in nine village centers or other areas. Most of these include numerous individual Registered Buildings plus all surrounding properties.
Registered Buildings
The Registered Buildings are:
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Conservation Areas
See also
* List of churches on the Isle of Man
* Windmills in the Isle of Man
Notes
References
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Protected areas of the Isle of Man
Lists of buildings and structures in the Isle of Man
Thatched buildings in the Isle of Man
Monuments and memorials in the Isle of Man