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History of Coverack · Historic England

2 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Coverack’s built-up area, 66 for every 10,000 residents. Coverack’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 42% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
2
66 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
42%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Coverack’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.

2 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*2 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.

Grade II

2 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 2 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 5.3% of Coverack

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

Coverack 19781 ha
1 hain conservation areas, of 20 ha inside the built-up area.

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.

Homes by age

42% of Coverack’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
0.6%
1900–18
2.4%
1919–29
4.2%
1930s
3.6%
1945–54
7.8%
1955–64
5.4%
1965–72
9.6%
1973–82
7.8%
1983–92
3.6%
1993–99
3.6%
2000–08
6%
2009–15
5.4%
2016–25
CoverackEngland & Wales

40% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 9.6% 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 (2 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Coverack

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Coverack30120—
Lizard1,046151A−
Mawnan Smith1,001100B+
Mullion2,148101B−
Falmouth24,0662090A
Helston11,3662092A
Penryn11,1942100A
Porthleven3,118280A−
In brief

Coverack in brief

Old houses are part of Coverack’s character: 42% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 2 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1978. Beyond that, all its entries went on the list in 1984.

Questions about Coverack’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Coverack?

Historic England lists 2 buildings inside Coverack’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 2 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Coverack?

1, covering about 1 hectares of the town. The largest is Coverack.

How old are the homes in Coverack?

42% of homes were built before 1919 and 49% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Coverack 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.