41 listed buildings

Church of St Michael and St Mary MagdeleneGrade II listedSouth Hill ParkGrade II listedBull InnGrade II listedOld Manor House HotelGrade II listedThe Red Lion InnGrade II listed+2See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

c. 1895

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 5 entries were listed in 1951. 24 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

1 registered park or garden

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

0.6% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 19% of today’s homes.

Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (126 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

William Trumbull

Stephen Lushington

Katharine Adams

Claudius Charles Davies

John Mansfield

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Stephen Lushington1782–1873 · British judge and Member of Parliament (1782-1873)

William Trumbull1639–1716 · English diplomat and politician (1639-1716)

KA

Katharine Adams1862–1952 · Bookbinder (1862–1952)

CD

Claudius Charles Davies1879–1936 · Canadian politician

John Mansfield1893–1949 · English naval officer

Everyone born in Bracknell → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Bracknell has 41 listed buildings, including The Horse and Groom Public House. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1996. Most entries on the list, 59%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 5 people born here before 1900, the best known include Stephen Lushington (1782), William Trumbull (1639) and Katharine Adams (1862).

Its homes are mostly newer: 0.8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1972, when 24 of the 41 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.