Curtilage of Listed Buildings

Changes in ownership, occupation or use after the listing date will not bring about the delisting of a building which formed part of the principal building at the time of listing. Ancillary buildings which served the purposes of the principal building at the time of listing or at a recent time before the building was listed, and are not historically independent of the principal building, are usually deemed to be within the curtilage. Where a self-contained building was fenced or walled off at the date of listing, regardless of the purpose for which it was built or its use at the time of listing, it is likely to be regarded as having a separate curtilage. To be within the curtilage, the structure or building must still form part of the land at the time of listing, and this normally means that there must be some degree of physical connection to the land i.e. the curtilage building was part and parcel of the main property when it was listed. As with fixtures however this guidance does not purport to be definitive and the Department will often need to consider the facts of each case.