85 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

Church of St BartholomewGrade I listedPalace Printers the Old PalaceGrade II* listedFormer Carriage Works and Locomotive Shed at Lostwithiel Railway StationGrade II listedThe King's Arms HotelGrade II listedBridge HouseGrade II listed+7See all photos

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1913

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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.

Of the 85 entries, 32 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 14 entries were listed in 1949, 2 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 65 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 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.

Lantern cross and grave slab immediately south of St Bartholomew's Church

1 registered battlefield

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.

38% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 9.7% 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.

Old houses are part of Lostwithiel’s character: 40% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 85 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I, including St Bartholomew's Church. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 89% of UK towns. Only 43 of the 1,203 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

Fore Street alone has 16 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969. Of the whole list, 59% are houses, terraces and villas. Beyond that, Charles Staniforth Hext (1815) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.