Listed buildingsand permitted development

Listed building consent is separate

Listed building consent covers any works that affect the building's character as a building of special interest — including internal walls, fireplaces, windows and doors. It's needed even where planning permission isn't, and there's no fee.

Grade I, II* and II are all protected the same way in law; the grade affects how closely the council and Historic England look at the application.

Which permitted development rights are lost

• —Outbuildings and garden rooms within the grounds (Class E).
• —Solar panels and heat pumps on the building or in its grounds, in most cases.
• —Fences, walls and gates around it.
• —Everything else still needs listed building consent even where the planning right survives.

Curtilage listing

Buildings and walls within the grounds that pre-date July 1948 can be treated as part of the listing — an old garden wall or coach house, for example — even if the list entry doesn't mention them.