19 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

The Castle and walls to the north-west and south-eastGrade II listedCentral Methodist ChapelGrade II listedNanny Moore's BridgeGrade II listedLaundry CottageGrade II listedChurch of St Michael and All AngelsGrade II listed+10See 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. 1890

c. 1890

c. 1890

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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).

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 1 entry was listed in 1952. 14 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

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.

Hannah Maynard

Archie Jewell

George Mills

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Hannah Maynard1834–1918 · Canadian photographer of the 19th and early 20th-century (1834–1918)

Archie Jewell1888–1917 · Sailor who survived the sinking of the Titanic (1888–1917)

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George Mills1896–1972 · British schoolmaster and author of children's adventure stories

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

The official list counts 19 listed buildings in Bude, including Warehouse on the West Side of the Bude Canal About 40 Metres South of Lifeboat House. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1988. Hannah Maynard (1834), Archie Jewell (1888) and George Mills (1896) were all born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1985: 14 of 19. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.