72 listed buildings, 5 of them Grade I

Ockwells Manor and Wall Attached on the South EastGrade I listedChurch of All SaintsGrade I listedGardeners Arms Public HouseGrade II listedChapel LodgeGrade II listedMain building and two side wings of former Berkshire College of ArtGrade II listed+6See 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. 1890

c. 1890

1903

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 10 entries were listed in 1950. 34 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

George Etherege

Mary Ann Browne

Elizabeth Rous Comstock

Lydia Rous

Samuel Henry Drew

Arthur Doughty

James Blomfield

Hugh Lofting

Dorothy Elliott

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Hugh Lofting1886–1947 · British author (1886–1947)

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George Etherege1635–1691 · English writer 1635-1691

Arthur Doughty1860–1936 · Canadian civil servant (1860-1936)

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Mary Ann Browne1812–1845 · English poet (1812-1845)

Samuel Henry Drew1844–1901 · New Zealand jeweller, watchmaker and naturalist (1844–1901)

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Dorothy Elliott1896–1980 · Feminist and trade unionist (1896–1980)

Elizabeth Rous Comstock1815–1891 · British born US Quaker minister (1815-1891)

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James Blomfield1879–1951 · Canadian artist, designer, stained glass

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

The official list counts 72 listed buildings in Maidenhead, 5 of them Grade I, including Ockwells. Its Grade I buildings cluster together: 4 of them stand within 400 m of Barn at Ockwells Manor. Only 25 of the 166 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1999.

Most entries on the list, 57%, are houses, terraces and villas. Hugh Lofting (1886), George Etherege (1635) and Arthur Doughty (1860) are among the 9 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 13% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.