Photo: Mick Knapton · CC BY-SA 3.0103 listed buildings
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Polperro’s built-up area, 1,794 for every 10,000 residents. All of Polperro’s listed buildings are Grade II. 32% of its homes were built before 1919.
Polperro from 1905 to 1920
2 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1905
c. 1920Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
Where Polperro’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.
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.
Most of Polperro’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
79 entries (77%) 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.
103 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 103 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 66% of Polperro
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
103 of the 103 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.
More than half of Polperro’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1964
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 1 entry was listed in 1952. 57 came in 1964. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
32% of Polperro’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
32% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 17% 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 (3 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Polperro
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polperro | 574 | 103 | 0 | — |
| Pelynt | 1,144 | 21 | 1 | A− |
| Looe | 5,314 | 102 | 0 | A |
| Fowey | 2,027 | 103 | 2 | A+ |
| Tywardreath | 2,589 | 18 | 0 | A− |
| Lostwithiel | 3,067 | 85 | 2 | A+ |
| Dobwalls | 1,683 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Liskeard | 10,901 | 167 | 0 | A |
Polperro in brief
More of Polperro’s homes are old than in most places: 32% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 103 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969.
Most entries on the list, 77%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1964, when 57 of the 103 went on the list. The rest is about typical: Jonathan Couch (1789) and Richard Quiller Couch (1816) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Polperro’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Polperro?
Historic England lists 103 buildings inside Polperro’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 103 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Polperro?
1, covering about 25 hectares of the town. The largest is Polperro.
When were Polperro’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 57, in 1964.
Are there old photos of Polperro?
Yes: 2 public-domain photos and postcards from 1905 to 1920, all on this page.
How old are the homes in Polperro?
32% of homes were built before 1919 and 40% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Polperro has no History Grade.
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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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