167 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

Marlow BridgeGrade I listedCrown HotelGrade II* listedSt Peter's Old Church HallGrade II listedThe Dial HouseGrade II listedObeliskGrade II listed+17See 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.

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).

West Street34 listed · 3 II*

High Street19 listed · 2 II*

Chapel Street6 listed

Spittal Street3 listed

St Peter's Street3 listed

Of the 167 entries, 75 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 54 entries were listed in 1949, 2 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 97 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 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.

Rice Owen Clark

Josiah Latimer Clark

Baron Bliss

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Josiah Latimer Clark1822–1898 · British electrical engineer (1822–1898)

Baron Bliss1869–1926 · British philanthropist (1869–1926)

Rice Owen Clark1816–1896 · 19th century English settler in New Zealand

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

Per resident, Marlow has more listed heritage than 85% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 167 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I, including Marlow Bridge. Only 52 of the 557 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. West Street alone has 34 listed buildings.

Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1969. Of the whole list, 74% are houses, terraces and villas. Josiah Latimer Clark (1822), Baron Bliss (1869) and Rice Owen Clark (1816) were all born here before 1900. Beyond that, 11% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.