II*Public · listed 1969Wokingham Town HallOn the list as The Town HallPhoto: Tom Bastin from Reading, UK · CC BY 2.0
The Town Hall · Photo: Tom Bastin from Reading, UK · CC BY 2.0B−History Grade
History of Wokingham · Historic England
170 listed buildings, 17 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Wokingham’s built-up area, 34 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 6.3% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 14 of its listed buildings and 1 old view of the town. Wokingham grades B− for history: #15 of 30 in Berkshire.
Listed buildings
170
34 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
17
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
6.3%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Wokingham in 14 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Red Lion Public HouseGrade II* listed
Tudor HouseGrade II* listed
Footbridge Immediately South of Wokingham StationGrade II listed
Westcott Infant SchoolGrade II listed
Wokingham Baptist ChurchGrade II listed+9See all photosPhotos 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.
Through time
Wokingham in old photos
1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
c. 1901Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where Wokingham’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade II*Scheduled monumentPark or garden
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 30neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 38% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
170 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I17 Grade II*153 Grade II
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).
Grade II*
The 17 Grade II* listed buildings in Wokingham
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 11 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*Inns & shops · listed 1969Red Lion Public HousePhoto: Tom Bastin from Reading, UK · CC BY 2.0
II*House · listed 1951Tudor HousePhoto: Motacilla · CC BY-SA 3.0
II*Church · listed 1951Church of All SaintsPhoto: Michael FORD · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Church · listed 1951Church of St PaulPhoto: Michael FORD · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Walls & gates · listed 1951Montague House and Attached Garden WallsPhoto: Motacilla · CC BY-SA 3.0
II*House · listed 1951The ElmsPhoto: Hut 8.5 · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*House · listed 195133, Rose StreetPhoto: Tom Bastin from Reading, UK · CC BY 2.0
House · listed 195137, Rose StreetPhoto: Tom Bastin from Reading, UK · CC BY 2.0
II*House · listed 19516, Market PlacePhoto: Tom Bastin from Reading, UK · CC BY 2.0
II*House · listed 19516, Shute EndPhoto: Tom Bastin from Reading, UK · CC BY 2.0
House · listed 1951Ashridge Farmhouse
Show the other 5
House · listed 1951Shute End House
House · listed 1951W.a.D.E. Day Centre
House · listed 195135 and 35A, Rose Street
House · listed 195139, Rose Street
House · listed 196980, Rose Street
Historic streets
Rose Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Rose Street23 listed · 5 II*
Denmark Street9 listed
The Terrace9 listed
Broad Street8 listed
Market Place7 listed · 1 II*
Shute End7 listed · 1 II*
Milton Road3 listed
Peach Street3 listed
Of the 170 entries, 72 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Wokingham’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas129
Public & civic buildings11
Inns, shops & warehouses10
Walls, gates & bridges8
Street furniture7
Churches, chapels & priories5
129 entries (76%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 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.
Grade II
153 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.
The first 150 of 153 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Admiral HouseAshridge CottageAstwood HouseBarford House and Front RailingsBarn Approximately 15 Metres South West of Hutt's FarmhouseBarn Approximately 20 Metres North West of Beanoak FarmhouseBarn Approximately 22 Metres North West of Blagrove FarmhouseBarn Approximately 30 Metres North of Blagrove FarmhouseBarn Approximately 8 Metres North East of Blagrove FarmhouseBarn at Ashridge Farm, South East of FarmhouseBeanoak FarmhouseBeaver Tomb, Approximately 11 Metres West of North Aisle, Church of All SaintsBlagrove FarmhouseBoundary Marker at South West Corner of No 6 Wiltshire RoadBurcott HouseCattle Shed at Ashridge Farm, North of FarmhouseCattle Shelter, Approximately 10 Metres East of Hutt's FarmhouseColburn HouseCottage Adjoining Stables at Glebelands the CottageCottage Approximately 4 Metres North of Beanoak FarmhouseCottage in Garden Adjoining No 40 Reading Road on South WestDolphins the CottageDowlesgreen FarmhouseDrinking Fountain, Approximately One Metre from North East Corner of the Town HallDwarf Garden Wall and Gate Piers to Nos 2-10 (Police Station)Endon Cottage Virginia CottageFolly FarmFootbridge Immediately South of Wokingham StationFormer Police StationFostersGarden Wall to Road at No 40 Reading RoadGlebelandsHope and Anchor Public HouseHutt's FarmhouseK6 Telephone Kiosk Next to Entrance to Town HallKeeper's CottageKeephatch FarmhouseKing's LodgeLuckley House SchoolLych Gate to the Church of St PaulMarkham House and Front RailingsMilestone Adjoining North West Corner of the Post OfficeMilestone in the Garden of Ashridge Farmhouse, Approximately 3 Metres South of Entrance PorchMollony Tomb, Approximately 14 Metres North of Tower, Church of All SaintsNo 12 and Front RailingsNo 24 and Front RailingsNos 3 and 5 and the Southern Section of the Victoria Arms Public HouseNos 35 and 37 and Front RailingsNos. 12A-14Ochiltree CottageOxford HousePair of K6 Telephone Kiosks Outside Numbers 13-15 and Number 16 (Head Post Office) Broad StreetParadise Cottage the Old BakeryParish RoomsQueen's Head Public HouseRailings in Front of No 6 Shute EndRichmond CottageRoebuck Public HouseRose CottageSouthbrookSt ClementsSt Crispin's SchoolStables, North West of GlebelandsThatch CottageThe Annexe at Westcott Infant SchoolThe Auction HouseThe Cottage Tudor CornerThe CourtyardThe Crispin Public HouseThe Duke's Head Public HouseThe GatehouseThe HoltThe Lodge at Glebelands and Adjoining WallThe Lord Raglan Public HouseThe Metropolitan Public HouseThe Old CottageThe Old HouseThe OverhangsThe Ship InnThe Small HouseThree Wall and Gate Piers to Wokingham Baptist ChurchWall Adjoining Nos 1 and 3 on the North EastWest LodgeWestcott Infant SchoolWiltshire FarmhouseWingmore LodgeWokingham Baptist ChurchYe Olde Rose Inne1 and 3, Rectory Road1, Shute End10, Denmark Street10A, Shute End11 and 13, Broad Street12 and 14, Rose Street12, Milton Road15, Market Place15, The Terrace16 and 18, Rose Street17, 19, 21 and 21A, The Terrace17, Market Place19, Broad Street2 and 4, Milton Road2, Denmark Street22, Broad Street22, Market Place23 and 24, Market Place25, Rose Street27 and 29, Rose Street28, Broad Street29 and 31, The Terrace29, Broad Street3 and 4, Market Place3 and 5, The Terrace3, Shute End30-36, Broad Street31 and 31A, Rose Street31 and 33, Denmark Street32, Rose Street34, Rose Street35, Denmark Street35, The Terrace36 and 38, Rose Street37 Market Place (The former Bush Hotel, including 1-10 Bush Walk)37 and 39, Denmark Street37, The Terrace39, The Terrace4 and 6, Denmark Street4, Rose Street4, Shute End40, 42, 44 and 44A, Rose Street41, The Terrace45, Peach Street46, 48 and 50, Rose Street47 and 49, Denmark Street48 and 50, Peach Street5, Market Place5, Shute End51 and 53, Denmark Street52, Peach Street6 and 8, Milton Road6, 8 and 10, Rose Street60, Rose Street62, Rose Street63, Rose Street7 and 9, The Terrace7, Broad Street7, South Drive78, Rose Street8 and 8A, Denmark Street8, Shute End
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Wokingham
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
No data available for publication by HE1,537 ha
1,537 hain conservation areas, of 1,537 ha inside the built-up area.
170 of the 170 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.
How the list grew
50 of Wokingham’s 170 listed buildings were added in 1951
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1951 · 501969 · 401987 · 35
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 50 entries were listed in 1951. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
1 registered park or garden
Bearwood CollegeGrade II*
History Grade
Wokingham grades B− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (191 points, 38 per 10,000 residents)More than 70% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (6.3%)More than 13% of UK towns
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.
Homes by age
6.3% of Wokingham’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
4%
Before 1900
2.3%
1900–18
2.3%
1919–29
2.1%
1930s
2.8%
1945–54
13%
1955–64
10%
1965–72
16%
1973–82
16%
1983–92
4.3%
1993–99
4.6%
2000–08
7.5%
2009–15
16%
2016–25
WokinghamEngland & Wales
4% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 16% 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 (332 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
6 notable people born in Wokingham before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Thomas Godwin
Thomas Morres
Harry Baldwin
John Rhodes
Hugh Morres
John George Walters Clark
1500165018001950
JR
John Rhodes1870–1947 · English competition sailor (1870–1947)
Harry Baldwin1860–1935 · English cricketer (1860-1935)
JC
John George Walters Clark1892–1948 · British Army general (1892–1948)
Thomas Godwin1517–1590 · Bishop of Bath and Wells; Dean of Canterbury
TM
Thomas Morres1829–1884 · Cricketer (1829-1884)
HM
Hugh Morres1876–1934 · (1876-1934)
Everyone born in Wokingham → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Wokingham
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wokingham | 50,320 | 170 | 0 | B− |
| Winnersh | 8,904 | 7 | 0 | D |
| Binfield | 4,851 | 48 | 0 | B |
| Arborfield Garrison | 4,311 | 7 | 0 | C− |
| Crowthorne | 15,196 | 7 | 0 | D |
| Hurst | 1,009 | 10 | 0 | B |
| Bracknell | 78,662 | 41 | 0 | C− |
| Woodley | 28,019 | 15 | 0 | D |
In brief
Wokingham in brief
Wokingham has 170 listed buildings, including Wokingham Town Hall. On Rose Street alone there are 23 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 76%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Of the 6 people born here before 1900, the best known include John Rhodes (1870), Harry Baldwin (1860) and John George Walters Clark (1892). Its homes are mostly newer: 6.3% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: 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 it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Wokingham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Wokingham?
Historic England lists 170 buildings inside Wokingham’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 17 Grade II* and 153 Grade II.
Which street in Wokingham has the most listed buildings?
Rose Street (23), Denmark Street (9) and The Terrace (9) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Wokingham?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Bell barrow 160m north-west of Warren Lodge.
How many conservation areas are there in Wokingham?
1, covering about 1,537 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Wokingham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 50, in 1951.
Are there old photos of Wokingham?
Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1901 to 1901, all on this page.
Who was born in Wokingham?
Among people born before 1900: John Rhodes (1870), Harry Baldwin (1860), John George Walters Clark (1892), Thomas Godwin (1517) and Thomas Morres (1829).
How old are the homes in Wokingham?
6.3% of homes were built before 1919 and 11% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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