122 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade II*

27, Polkirt HillGrade II* listedChurch of St PeterGrade II* listedHarbour Piers and QuaysGrade II* listedLawn HouseGrade II* listed+2See 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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c. 1940

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.

Cliff Street16 listed

The Cliff15 listed

Polkirt Hill13 listed · 1 II*

Church Street10 listed

Fore Street9 listed

Tregony Hill6 listed

Myrtle Court4 listed

Mount Street3 listed

Of the 122 entries, 87 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 5 entries were listed in 1950. 112 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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 1983–92, which added 11% 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.

John Tremayne

Andrew Pears

Henry Rowe Hocking Kenner

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Andrew Pears1766–1845 · British barber and soap innovator

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John Tremayne1647–1694 · English lawyer and politician

Henry Rowe Hocking Kenner1867–1944 · Canadian teacher

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

For its size, Mevagissey has more listed heritage than 94% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 122 listed buildings. Of its homes, 35% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. On Cliff Street alone there are 16 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 89%, are houses, terraces and villas. Andrew Pears (1766), John Tremayne (1647) and Henry Rowe Hocking Kenner (1867) were all born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building.