Photo: Stefan Czapski · CC BY-SA 2.023 listed buildings
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Taplow’s built-up area, 924 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 26% of its homes were built before 1919.
Where Taplow’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.
The largest group of Taplow’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
10 entries (43%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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.
23 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 23 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 69% of Taplow
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
23 of the 23 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 Taplow’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 3 entries were listed in 1955. 17 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
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.
2 registered parks and gardens
26% of Taplow’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
20% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 26% 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 (1 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Taplow
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taplow | 249 | 23 | 0 | — |
| Maidenhead | 67,391 | 72 | 5 | B− |
| Cookham | 5,216 | 54 | 0 | A |
| Bourne End | 7,166 | 43 | 0 | B |
| Eton Wick | 2,121 | 3 | 0 | C− |
| Farnham Common and Farnham Royal | 6,711 | 19 | 0 | C+ |
| Slough | 166,868 | 155 | 7 | C+ |
| Eton | 2,461 | 86 | 1 | A+ |
Taplow in brief
More of Taplow’s homes are old than in most places: 26% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 23 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1975. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1985: 17 of 23. Beyond that, Phyllis Barron (1890) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Taplow’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Taplow?
Historic England lists 23 buildings inside Taplow’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 23 Grade II.
Are there scheduled monuments in Taplow?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Saxon barrow, church and cemeteries in the old churchyard at Taplow Court.
How many conservation areas are there in Taplow?
1, covering about 21 hectares of the town. The largest is Taplow.
When were Taplow’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 17, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Taplow?
26% of homes were built before 1919 and 33% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Taplow 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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