I am not sure what guidelines you are quoting but can i suggest that you
have a look at the English Heritage website
@http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ where you will find a more up to date
and more detailed definition of both scheduling and listing, including
definitions of what the listing grades actually mean.
Both listing and scheduling are systems of protection for "sites" deemed
important. Both have different origins and use different judgment criteria
and give different types of protection. It is wrong to think that buildings
or structures cannot be scheduled, they can.
To quote the EH website:
"Scheduling is applied only to sites of national importance, and even then
only if it is the best means of protection. Only deliberately created
structures, features and remains can be scheduled.
When buildings are listed they are placed on statutory lists of buildings of
'special architectural or historic interest' . Buildings and standing
structures of historic interest, especially if they are or can be made
usable, are generally best protected by listing, where the emphasis is on
continuing active use."
Scheduling aims to broadly preserve a site as it is, whereas listing allows
for changes and alterations but aims to preserve the character of the
building or structure.
As with any general discussion the situation with individual cases can be
more complex. There is currently a major review going which aims to simplify
the whole system and will see the merging of the scheduling and listing
systems.
Martin Roe
President, Northern Mine Research Society,nmrs.co.uk
Conservation Officer NAMHO, National Association of Mining History
Organisations, http://www.namho.org
Lead Mining in the Yorkshire Dales,
http://www.martinroe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Meerstone Archaeological Consultancy
http://www.martinroe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/meerstone.htm
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