111 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St PetrocGrade I listedRuins of the Chapel of St Thomas BecketGrade II* listedShire HallGrade II* listedThe White Hart InnGrade II listedClock Tower and Turret HouseGrade II listed+12See 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.

c. 1780

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1918

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).

Of the 111 entries, 42 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 16 entries were listed in 1949, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 54 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Berrycombe Cross, on the north side of Berrycombe Road at its junction with Cardell Road

MedievalMedieval chapel of St Thomas Becket 45m east of the church, Priory Road in Bodmin

Wayside cross 120m north west of Callywith

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.

John Cornelius

John Arnold

John Eyre

Sir Walter Gilbert, 1st Baronet

Elizabeth George

John Coode

Fred W. P. Jago

Joseph Osbertus Hamley

Henry Dennis

Charlie Frith

E. A. Wallis Budge

Frederick Buscombe

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Elizabeth Hurdon

H. Stanley Allen

Charles Edward-Collins

Frederick Edward-Collins

H. C. McNeile

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E. A. Wallis Budge1857–1934 · British academic (1857–1934)

Arthur Quiller-Couch1863–1944 · British writer and literary critic (1863–1944)

H. C. McNeile1888–1937 · British soldier and author (1888–1937)

John Arnold1736–1799 · English watchmaker and inventor

John Cornelius1557–1594 · English Jesuit priest and martyr

Sir Walter Gilbert, 1st Baronet1785–1853 · British East India Company army officer; (1786-1853)

FJ

Fred W. P. Jago1817–1911 · Cornish-language scholar

CF

Charlie Frith1854–1919 · New Zealand cricketer

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

Measured per resident, Bodmin has more listed heritage than 76% of UK towns. In all there are 111 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Petroc's Parish Church. Only 100 of the 515 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On Fore Street alone there are 21 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1991. Most entries on the list, 62%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 18 people born here before 1900, the best known include E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863) and H. C. McNeile (1888). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 3 scheduled monuments; and 15% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.