79 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St LaurenceGrade II* listedKeach's Meeting House and Graveyard WallsGrade II* listedThe GeorgeGrade II listedWinslow War MemorialGrade II listedThe Nags HeadGrade II listed+1See 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.

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.

Of the 79 entries, 34 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 20 entries were listed in 1952. 41 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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.

Per resident, Winslow has more listed heritage than 82% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 79 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Winslow Hall. Only 81 of the 919 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On High Street alone there are 8 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969. Most entries on the list, 86%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1984, when 41 of the 79 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: William Lowndes (1652) and Joseph Dandridge (1665) were born here before 1900; and 14% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.