II*Church · listed 1958Church of All SaintsPhoto: Sealman · Public domain
Photo: Mark Percy · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Coleshill · Historic England
17 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Coleshill’s built-up area, 407 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 16 of Coleshill’s listed buildings. 35% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
17
407 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
35%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Coleshill
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Coleshill’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
17 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*16 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.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Coleshill
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
16 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 16 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Coleshill Church of England Primary School (Original Building Only)Coleshill CottageColeshill HouseColeshill War Memorial, BuckinghamshireColeshill WindmillDell HillForge House and Forge CottageFriars VaneLittlelandsNumbers 1 and 3 Red Lion CottagesPond CottageStock CottageStock PlaceStonypath Cottage and Parkend CottageThe RosaryThe Rosary Cottage
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 8% of Coleshill
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Coleshill Village 19924 ha
4 hain conservation areas, of 47 ha inside the built-up area.
8 of the 17 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
More than half of Coleshill’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 11
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The first 4 entries were listed in 1958. 11 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
35% of Coleshill’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
30%
Before 1900
4.8%
1900–18
6.5%
1919–29
9.5%
1930s
14%
1945–54
11%
1955–64
3%
1965–72
3%
1973–82
3%
1983–92
3%
1993–99
7.7%
2000–08
1.8%
2009–15
1.8%
2016–25
ColeshillEngland & Wales
30% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 14% 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 (5 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Coleshill
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coleshill | 418 | 17 | 0 | — |
| Seer Green | 2,582 | 20 | 1 | C+ |
| Amersham | 17,377 | 200 | 1 | B+ |
| Chalfont St Giles | 4,707 | 44 | 2 | B |
| Beaconsfield | 14,142 | 153 | 0 | B+ |
| Hyde Heath | 1,048 | 3 | 0 | C |
| Little Chalfont | 6,506 | 17 | 0 | C− |
| Hazlemere | 20,006 | 60 | 1 | C+ |
In brief
Coleshill in brief
Old houses are part of Coleshill’s character: 35% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 17 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1992. The big year was 1984, when 11 of the 17 went on the list.
Questions about Coleshill’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Coleshill?
Historic England lists 17 buildings inside Coleshill’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 16 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Coleshill?
1, covering about 4 hectares of the town. The largest is Coleshill Village.
When were Coleshill’s buildings listed?
The first in 1958; the most, 11, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Coleshill?
35% of homes were built before 1919 and 51% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Coleshill has no History Grade.
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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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