Waverley borough councillor Christiaan Hesse said the house, as a heritage site, could be extremely important to the village.
Public interest, awareness and pressure forced the government to move swiftly to protect a heritage site once the evidence was widely known.
To become a World Heritage Site, a site must be put forward for nomination by its government and demonstrate that it meets one or more of ten criteria laid down by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
And while Battir is a reasonable candidate for World Heritage Site status, it is first and foremost a Jewish heritage site.
Being recognised as a World Heritage site is a fitting accolade for this bridge which has played such an important part in the lives of Scots for 125 years.
The Blue Mountains national park is a World Heritage site and covers a million hectares, with huge cliffs, deep rainforest gulleys, sandstone canyons and waterfalls.
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This month, the United Nations approved Cambodia's application to have the temple listed as a World Heritage Site -- a place the U.N. says has outstanding universal value.
One casualty in the battle for Timbuktu is the city's library, which was designated a world heritage site because of a treasure of rare books and manuscripts about precolonial Africa, a South Africa professor told CNN on Monday.
Once inscribed as a World Heritage Site, the site must then be preserved, maintained and presented in accordance with a management plan.
UNESCO, which has designated Butrint a World Heritage site, turned the sparsely inhabited land around it into a national park.
The World Heritage in Danger list is thus another way in which a World Heritage Site may be protected and preserved for future generations.
In the UK, most World Heritage Sites are complex and involve many local stakeholders and management plans are often drawn up by a World Heritage Site Management Plan Steering Group.
The catacombs of Malta are designated as a World Heritage Site for their role in Paleochristian history.
The population increase is also expected to damage Lamu's status as a world heritage site.
Aleppo, in northern Syrian near Turkey, is the country's commercial capital and a World Heritage site.
Nine were destroyed, seven in a part of the town designated as a World Heritage Site.
The Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin has been designated a World Heritage site by the U.N.
On the strength of its halqa performances, Unesco has named Djemaa el-Fna a World Heritage site for culture.
The tombs, a 15th century shrine to Muslim saints, are part of a World Heritage site in Timbuktu.
In 2008 UNESCO listed the temple as a World Heritage site, to the delight of Cambodia's tourist industry.
About 40 minutes away is Himeji Castle, a World Heritage Site built from the 14th to 17th centuries.
The Bath Preservation Trust said the gasometer was not one of the reasons Bath was a World Heritage Site.
Hampi had been designated a world heritage site by UNESCO, the UN agency concerned with preservation of historic sites.
Read more about the process of becoming a World Heritage Site here.
The Giant's Causeway was declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1986.
The Serengeti National Park is listed as a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
The way to promote Macau was changed when Unesco recognized the historic center as a World Heritage site in 2005.
Ethiopia has some of the word's oldest churches, including rock-hewn churches, which are a World Heritage Site, in Lalibella in northern Ethiopia.
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Maritime Greenwich was designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997 and is recognised for its cultural heritage and scientific accomplishments.
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The Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland's top tourist attraction with 750, 000 visitors a year, was declared a World Heritage site by Unesco in 1986.
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