52 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Church of St StephenGrade I listedParish Church of St Nicholas and St FaithGrade I listedThe Boatman InnGrade II listedSaltash LibraryGrade II listedWar memorial in the churchyard of the Church of St StephenGrade II listed+3See 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.

1906

1937

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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

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 9 entries were listed in 1952, 2 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 35 came in 1982, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 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.

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.

Evan Nepean

Richard Darton Thomas

Ann Glanville

Philip Santo

Sarah Allen Olney

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Evan Nepean1751–1822 · British Naval officer and administrator

Richard Darton Thomas1777–1857 · British Royal Navy admiral (1777-1857)

Ann Glanville1796–1880 · British rower

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Sarah Allen Olney1842–1915 · British headmistress (1842–1915)

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Philip Santo1818–1889 · Politician and businessman in South Australia (1818–1889)

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

The official list counts 52 listed buildings in Saltash, 3 of them Grade I, including Church of St Stephen. Only 32 of the 531 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1978. Of the whole list, 56% are houses, terraces and villas.

Evan Nepean (1751), Richard Darton Thomas (1777) and Ann Glanville (1796) are among the 5 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1982: 35 of 52. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has a scheduled monument; and 15% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.