7 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

Chapel at Wellington College with Porch Colonnade and Gateway Adjoining West EndGrade II listedChurch of St John the Baptist with Churchyard Cross and Lych GateGrade II listed

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.

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.

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.

4.6% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 20% 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 (145 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

A. C. Benson

Vernon Barford

Olive Selden Attride Tattersall

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A. C. Benson1862–1925 · English essayist and poet, 1862–1925 (1862–1925)

Vernon Barford1876–1963 · British photographer and musician (1876-1963)

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Olive Selden Attride Tattersall1890–1978 · British carcinologist (1890-1978)

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

Crowthorne has 7 listed buildings, including Wellington College. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 2009. A. C. Benson (1862), Vernon Barford (1876) and Olive Selden Attride Tattersall (1890) were all born here before 1900.

Its homes are mostly newer: 8.9% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 22% of UK towns. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and the list grew between 1972 and 2009.