Photo: Rarb · CC BY 3.0Port Isaac: 44% of homes built before 1919
Against 15% in the typical town, Port Isaac has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 102 buildings inside Port Isaac’s built-up area, 2,036 for every 10,000 residents.
Port Isaac in old photos
1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1914Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
Where Port Isaac’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.
Fore Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Of the 102 entries, 25 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
Most of Port Isaac’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
87 entries (85%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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.
102 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 102 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 31% of Port Isaac
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
96 of the 102 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 Port Isaac’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 47 entries were listed in 1969. 53 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
44% of Port Isaac’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
42% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 9.3% 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.
Listed buildings in the places around Port Isaac
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Isaac | 501 | 102 | 0 | — |
| Rock | 1,156 | 15 | 0 | B |
| Delabole | 1,779 | 4 | 0 | B− |
| Egloshayle | 1,185 | 25 | 1 | A− |
| Wadebridge | 5,626 | 26 | 0 | B |
| Padstow | 2,351 | 132 | 2 | A+ |
| Camelford | 2,983 | 23 | 0 | B+ |
| St Merryn | 1,344 | 8 | 0 | C+ |
Port Isaac in brief
More of Port Isaac’s homes are old than in most places: 44% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 102 listed buildings. Fore Street alone has 10 listed buildings.
A conservation area has protected part of it since 1974. Of the whole list, 85% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1987: 53 of 102.
Questions about Port Isaac’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Port Isaac?
Historic England lists 102 buildings inside Port Isaac’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 102 Grade II.
Which street in Port Isaac has the most listed buildings?
Fore Street (10), Dolphin Street (5) and Middle Street (4) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
How many conservation areas are there in Port Isaac?
1, covering about 11 hectares of the town. The largest is Port Isaac.
When were Port Isaac’s buildings listed?
The first in 1969; the most, 53, in 1987.
Are there old photos of Port Isaac?
Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1914 to 1914, all on this page.
How old are the homes in Port Isaac?
44% of homes were built before 1919 and 51% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Port Isaac 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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