diff --git a/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Controller/SearchController.php b/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Controller/SearchController.php
index 4e01a3c..6b93a77 100644
--- a/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Controller/SearchController.php
+++ b/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Controller/SearchController.php
@@ -109,7 +109,22 @@ public function view(Request $request, $plugin_id = NULL, $keys = NULL) {
     }
     // The form may be altered based on whether the search was run.
     $build['search_form'] = drupal_get_form(SearchForm::create($this->container()), $plugin);
-    $build['search_results'] = $results;
+
+    $build['search_results'] = array(
+      '#theme' => array('item_list__search_results__' . $plugin_id, 'item_list__search_results'),
+      '#items' => $results,
+      '#empty' => array(
+        // @todo Revisit where this help text is added.
+        '#markup' => '<h3>' . $this->t('Your search yielded no results.') . '</h3>' . search_help('search#noresults', drupal_help_arg()),
+      ),
+      '#title' => $this->t('Search Results'),
+      '#list_type' => 'ol',
+    );
+
+    $build['pager'] = array(
+      '#theme' => 'pager',
+    );
+
     return $build;
   }
 
diff --git a/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Plugin/SearchInterface.php b/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Plugin/SearchInterface.php
index 21478fe..ea36358 100644
--- a/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Plugin/SearchInterface.php
+++ b/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Plugin/SearchInterface.php
@@ -74,10 +74,10 @@ public function isSearchExecutable();
   public function execute();
 
   /**
-   * Executes the search and builds a render array.
+   * Executes the search and builds render arrays for the result items.
    *
    * @return array
-   *   The search results in a renderable array.
+   *   An array of search_result render arrays.
    */
   public function buildResults();
 
diff --git a/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Plugin/SearchPluginBase.php b/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Plugin/SearchPluginBase.php
index 7f534d5..f5c3100 100644
--- a/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Plugin/SearchPluginBase.php
+++ b/core/modules/search/lib/Drupal/search/Plugin/SearchPluginBase.php
@@ -80,11 +80,17 @@ public function isSearchExecutable() {
    */
   public function buildResults() {
     $results = $this->execute();
-    return array(
-      '#theme' => 'search_results',
-      '#results' => $results,
-      '#plugin_id' => $this->getPluginId(),
-    );
+
+    $built = array();
+    foreach ($results as $result) {
+      $built[] = array(
+        '#theme' => 'search_result',
+        '#result' => $result,
+        '#plugin_id' => $this->getPluginId(),
+      );
+    }
+
+    return $built;
   }
 
  /**
diff --git a/core/modules/search/search.module b/core/modules/search/search.module
index 3fc2953..e6ee130 100644
--- a/core/modules/search/search.module
+++ b/core/modules/search/search.module
@@ -111,11 +111,6 @@ function search_theme() {
       'file' => 'search.pages.inc',
       'template' => 'search-result',
     ),
-    'search_results' => array(
-      'variables' => array('results' => NULL, 'plugin_id' => NULL),
-      'file' => 'search.pages.inc',
-      'template' => 'search-results',
-    ),
   );
 }
 
diff --git a/core/modules/search/search.pages.inc b/core/modules/search/search.pages.inc
index 023a825..ec71855 100644
--- a/core/modules/search/search.pages.inc
+++ b/core/modules/search/search.pages.inc
@@ -6,35 +6,6 @@
  */
 
 use Drupal\Core\Language\Language;
-use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse;
-
-/**
- * Prepares variables for search results templates.
- *
- * Default template: search-results.html.twig.
- *
- * @param array $variables
- *   An array with the following elements:
- *   - results: Search results array.
- *   - plugin_id: Plugin the search results came from.
- */
-function template_preprocess_search_results(&$variables) {
-  $variables['search_results'] = '';
-  if (!empty($variables['plugin_id'])) {
-    $variables['plugin_id'] = check_plain($variables['plugin_id']);
-  }
-  foreach ($variables['results'] as $result) {
-    $variables['search_results'][] = array(
-      '#theme' => 'search_result',
-      '#result' => $result,
-      '#plugin_id' => $variables['plugin_id'],
-    );
-  }
-  $variables['pager'] = array('#theme' => 'pager');
-  // @todo Revisit where this help text is added, see also
-  //   http://drupal.org/node/1918856.
-  $variables['help'] = search_help('search#noresults', drupal_help_arg());
-}
 
 /**
  * Implements hook_theme_suggestions_HOOK().
diff --git a/core/modules/search/templates/search-result.html.twig b/core/modules/search/templates/search-result.html.twig
index 281f8b1..aa1bcfd 100644
--- a/core/modules/search/templates/search-result.html.twig
+++ b/core/modules/search/templates/search-result.html.twig
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@
  * @file
  * Default theme implementation for displaying a single search result.
  *
- * This template renders a single search result and is collected into
- * search-results.html.twig. This and the parent template are
- * dependent to one another sharing the markup for ordered lists.
+ * This template renders a single search result.
  *
  * Available variables:
  * - url: URL of the result.
@@ -57,18 +55,16 @@
  * @ingroup themeable
  */
 #}
-<li {{ attributes }}>
-  {{ title_prefix }}
-  <h3 class="title"{{ title_attributes }}>
-    <a href="{{ url }}">{{ title }}</a>
-  </h3>
-  {{ title_suffix }}
-  <div class="search-snippet-info">
-    {% if snippet %}
-      <p class="search-snippet"{{ content_attributes }}>{{ snippet }}</p>
-    {% endif %}
-    {% if info %}
-      <p class="search-info">{{ info }}</p>
-    {% endif %}
-  </div>
-</li>
+{{ title_prefix }}
+<h3 class="title"{{ title_attributes }}>
+  <a href="{{ url }}">{{ title }}</a>
+</h3>
+{{ title_suffix }}
+<div class="search-snippet-info">
+  {% if snippet %}
+    <p class="search-snippet"{{ content_attributes }}>{{ snippet }}</p>
+  {% endif %}
+  {% if info %}
+    <p class="search-info">{{ info }}</p>
+  {% endif %}
+</div>
diff --git a/core/modules/search/templates/search-results.html.twig b/core/modules/search/templates/search-results.html.twig
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c14be7..0000000
--- a/core/modules/search/templates/search-results.html.twig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-{#
-/**
- * @file
- * Default theme implementation for displaying search results.
- *
- * This template collects each invocation of theme_search_result(). This and
- * the child template are dependent to one another sharing the markup for
- * definition lists.
- *
- * Note that modules may implement their own search type and theme function
- * completely bypassing this template.
- *
- * Available variables:
- * - search_results: All results as it is rendered through
- *   search-result.html.twig.
- * - plugin_id: The machine-readable name of the plugin being executed, such
- *   as 'node_search' or 'user_search'.
- * - pager: The pager next/prev links to display, if any.
- * - help: HTML for help text to display when no results are found.
- *
- * @see template_preprocess_search_results()
- *
- * @ingroup themeable
- */
-#}
-{% if search_results %}
-  <h2>{{ 'Search results'|t }}</h2>
-  <ol class="search-results {{ plugin_id }}-results">
-    {{ search_results }}
-  </ol>
-  {{ pager }}
-{% else %}
-  <h2>{{ 'Your search yielded no results'|t }}</h2>
-  {{ help }}
-{% endif %}