54 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St Martin and St MeriadocusGrade I listedOld Council OfficesGrade II listedTrevithick Memorial Statue on Pavement in Front of LibraryGrade II listedTrevu HouseGrade II listedCross in forecourt of Methodist Chapel, Chapel StreetScheduled monument+6See 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.

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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 7 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 37 came in 1989, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 have been added in the last 15 years.

World Heritage

4 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.

Cross in forecourt of Methodist Chapel, Chapel Street

Wayside cross and cross-base immediately north east of the Donald Thomas Daycare Centre, 180m east of St Meriadoc and St Martin's Church

Wayside cross and cross-base in Camborne churchyard, 10m south west of the church

Wayside cross in Camborne churchyard, 10m west of the church

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.

33% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 12% 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 (49 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

James Trevenen

Arthur Woolf

Francis Rule

Henry Vivian Moyle

Edward Blewett

Thomas B. Dunstan

Josiah Thomas

Albert Ernest Thomas

Charles Provis

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AW

Arthur Woolf1766–1837 · Cornish engineer

Josiah Thomas1863–1933 · Miner and politician in New South Wales, Australia (1863-1933)

Thomas B. Dunstan1850–1902 · American politician

JT

James Trevenen1760–1790 · Officer in the Royal Navy and the Imperial Russian Navy (1760-1790)

CP

Charles Provis1885– · English cricketer (1885-?)

FR

Francis Rule1835–1925 · (1835-1925)

HM

Henry Vivian Moyle1841–1925 · South Australian politician (1841–1925)

EB

Edward Blewett1848–1929 · (1848-1929)

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

Old houses are part of Camborne’s character: 35% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 54 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Martin and St Meriadocus. Only 101 of the 465 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1995.

Of the whole list, 52% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 9 people born here before 1900, the best known include Arthur Woolf (1766), Josiah Thomas (1863) and Thomas B. Dunstan (1850). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1989: 37 of 54. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 4 scheduled monuments.