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History of Cawsand and Kingsand · Historic England

82 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Cawsand and Kingsand’s built-up area, 1,434 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 40% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
82
1,434 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
40%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Cawsand and Kingsand’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Cawsand Fort, scheduled monument
Scheduled monument

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

82 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*82 Grade II

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.

What’s protected

Most of Cawsand and Kingsand’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas71
Inns, shops & warehouses4
Churches, chapels & priories2
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Walls, gates & bridges2
Street furniture1

71 entries (87%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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.

Grade II

82 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 82 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 50% of Cawsand and Kingsand

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Kingsand and Cawsand 197011 ha
11 hain conservation areas, of 23 ha inside the built-up area.

81 of the 82 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.

How the list grew

More than half of Cawsand and Kingsand’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1987 · 731968 · 7
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 7 entries were listed in 1968. 73 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

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.

Homes by age

40% of Cawsand and Kingsand’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

40%
Before 1900
0.7%
1900–18
3.2%
1919–29
18%
1930s
11%
1945–54
1.7%
1955–64
4%
1965–72
11%
1973–82
5%
1983–92
1.7%
1993–99
2.5%
2000–08
0.7%
2009–15
0.7%
2016–25
Cawsand and KingsandEngland & Wales

40% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 18% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Cawsand and Kingsand

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Cawsand and Kingsand572820—
Millbrook2,299150A−
Torpoint7,163110C+
Plymouth266,97073820A−
Saltash15,433523B
Wembury1,82841C−
Sherford1,31140C−
Landrake1,104161A−
In brief

Cawsand and Kingsand in brief

Old houses are part of Cawsand and Kingsand’s character: 40% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 82 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Most entries on the list, 87%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1987, when 73 of the 82 went on the list. The rest is about typical: Thomas Sulivan (1780) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Cawsand and Kingsand’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Cawsand and Kingsand?

Historic England lists 82 buildings inside Cawsand and Kingsand’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 82 Grade II.

Are there scheduled monuments in Cawsand and Kingsand?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Cawsand Fort.

How many conservation areas are there in Cawsand and Kingsand?

1, covering about 11 hectares of the town. The largest is Kingsand and Cawsand.

When were Cawsand and Kingsand’s buildings listed?

The first in 1968; the most, 73, in 1987.

How old are the homes in Cawsand and Kingsand?

40% of homes were built before 1919 and 60% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Cawsand and Kingsand 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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