155 listed buildings, 7 of them Grade I

Church of St MaryGrade I listedMontem Mound: a motte at Salt Hill, Upton-cum ChalveyScheduled monumentSlough Station booking hall, booking office and travel centreGrade II listedThe Harrow Public HouseGrade II listedDitton ParkGrade II park or garden+14See 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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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 15 entries were listed in 1950, 5 of the 7 Grade I buildings among them. 60 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 have 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.

Moated site at Cippenham Court

Montem Mound: a motte at Salt Hill, Upton-cum Chalvey

4 registered parks and gardens

Ditton ParkGrade II

Huntercombe ManorGrade II

Stoke ParkGrade II

Stoke PlaceGrade 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.

3.3% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 18% 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 (607 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

John Frederick William Herschel

William Thomas Thornton

John Evans

Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet

Godfrey Brown (Hawaii)

Thomas George Tucker

Arthur C. Forbes

Cecil Aldin

Thomas Case

Ralph George Hawtrey

C. H. Masterman

Reg Whitcombe

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John Frederick William Herschel1792–1871 · English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and ph…

John Evans1823–1908 · English archaeologist and geologist (1823–1908)

Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet1833–1917 · British forensic scientist (1833-1917)

Ralph George Hawtrey1879–1975 · British economist (1879–1975)

Cecil Aldin1870–1935 · British painter and illustrator (1870-1935)

Thomas George Tucker1859–1946 · Anglo-Australian academic (1859–1946)

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William Thomas Thornton1813–1880 · British economist, civil servant and author (1813-1880)

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Reg Whitcombe1898–1957 · Professional golfer (1898-1957)

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

The official list counts 155 listed buildings in Slough, 7 of them Grade I, including St Mary the Virgin Church, Langley. On High Street alone there are 22 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 10 conservation areas, the first designated in 1977.

John Frederick William Herschel (1792), John Evans (1823) and Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet (1833) are among the 12 people born here before 1900. Its homes are mostly newer: 5.7% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Beyond that, it has 7 Grade I buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 4); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.