Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.020 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Upper Lambourn’s built-up area, 482 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Upper Lambourn is Grade II. 19% of its homes were built before 1919.
Where Upper Lambourn’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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.
Most of Upper Lambourn’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
14 entries (70%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
20 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 20 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 20% of Upper Lambourn
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
18 of the 20 listed buildings stand in one.
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.
More than half of Upper Lambourn’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 1 entry was listed in 1951. 17 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Listed buildings in the places around Upper Lambourn
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Lambourn | 415 | 20 | 0 | — |
| Lambourn | 3,141 | 59 | 1 | A |
| Aldbourne | 1,686 | 84 | 1 | A+ |
| Ramsbury | 1,541 | 54 | 1 | A |
| East Challow | 1,031 | 11 | 0 | B |
| Wanborough | 1,737 | 23 | 1 | B+ |
| Shrivenham and Watchfield | 5,353 | 46 | 2 | B |
| Wantage | 13,100 | 122 | 1 | B+ |
Upper Lambourn in brief
The official list counts 20 listed buildings in Upper Lambourn. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 70%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1983, when 17 of the 20 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: 19% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Upper Lambourn’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Upper Lambourn?
Historic England lists 20 buildings inside Upper Lambourn’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 20 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Upper Lambourn?
1, covering about 7 hectares of the town. The largest is Upper Lambourn.
When were Upper Lambourn’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 17, in 1983.
How old are the homes in Upper Lambourn?
19% of homes were built before 1919 and 22% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Upper Lambourn has no History Grade.
© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.
Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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