Listed Buildings and Scheduled Monuments
What is a Scheduled Monument?
'Scheduling' is the process through which the Government, with advice from English Heritage, gives legal protection to nationally important sites and monuments by adding them to a list or 'Schedule' as laid down in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act of 1979.
Most scheduled monuments are earthworks or unoccupied structures, often in a ruinous or semi-ruinous condition.
A scheduled monument is protected against disturbance because it is an offence to carry out works without the authority of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, afforded through Scheduled Monument Consent.
- For more information, visit the English Heritage website
