Photo: Christine Johnstone · CC BY-SA 2.0Calstock is home to a World Heritage Site: Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
37% of Calstock’s homes were built before 1919. Historic England lists 34 buildings inside Calstock’s built-up area, 458 for every 10,000 residents.
Calstock in old photos
1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1904Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
Where Calstock’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.
Most of Calstock’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
27 entries (79%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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.
34 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 34 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 32% of Calstock
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
33 of the 34 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 Calstock’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 12 entries were listed in 1968. 19 came in 1987, 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.
World Heritage
| Cornwall and West Devon Mining LandscapeUNESCO World Heritage Site, partly or wholly inside the town |
37% of Calstock’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
35% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 20% 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 (5 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Calstock
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calstock | 742 | 34 | 0 | — |
| Bere Alston | 2,259 | 3 | 0 | C+ |
| Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel | 3,506 | 17 | 0 | B+ |
| Tavistock | 12,676 | 163 | 5 | A |
| Callington | 4,665 | 27 | 1 | B |
| Horrabridge | 1,875 | 6 | 1 | B− |
| Kelly Bray | 1,137 | 0 | 0 | D |
| Yelverton | 1,856 | 1 | 0 | C |
Calstock in brief
Calstock holds part of a World Heritage Site, Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape. In all there are 34 listed buildings. Its housing is old: 37% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
A conservation area has protected part of it since 1986. Of the whole list, 79% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1987: 19 of 34.
Questions about Calstock’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Calstock?
Historic England lists 34 buildings inside Calstock’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 34 Grade II.
Is Calstock a World Heritage Site?
Calstock is home to part or all of Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, inscribed by UNESCO.
How many conservation areas are there in Calstock?
1, covering about 17 hectares of the town. The largest is Calstock.
When were Calstock’s buildings listed?
The first in 1968; the most, 19, in 1987.
Are there old photos of Calstock?
Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1904 to 1904, all on this page.
How old are the homes in Calstock?
37% of homes were built before 1919 and 38% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Calstock has no History Grade.
© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.
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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