72 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Old Grove HouseGrade II* listedCaversham ParkGrade II park or gardenThe Red Cow Public HouseGrade II listedCaversham Baptist Free ChurchGrade II listedCaversham Court StablesGrade II listed+5See 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.

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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 2 entries were listed in 1951. 43 came in 1978, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

2 registered parks and gardens

Caversham CourtGrade II

Caversham ParkGrade II

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.

Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick

Frank Fletcher

Ralph Williams

Frank Ransley

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Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick1426–1492 · English countess

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Ralph Williams1879–1958 · English cricketer (1879-1958)

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Frank Fletcher1874–1936 · (1874-1936)

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Frank Ransley1897–1992 · WWI Flying Ace

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

The official list counts 72 listed buildings in Caversham, including St Peter's Church. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1988. Most entries on the list, 71%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick (1426), Ralph Williams (1879) and Frank Fletcher (1874) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1978, when 43 of the 72 went on the list. The rest is about typical: it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 18% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.