IChurch · listed 1950Holy Trinity ChurchPhoto: Adrian Read · CC BY-SA 3.0
Holy Trinity Church · Photo: Adrian Read · CC BY-SA 3.0B+History Grade
History of St Austell · Historic England
103 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside St Austell’s built-up area, 42 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 9 of its listed buildings and 4 old views of the town. 16% of its homes were built before 1919. St Austell grades B+ for history: #23 of 35 in Cornwall.
Listed buildings
103
42 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
6
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
16%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
St Austell in 15 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Market HouseGrade II* listed
Charlestown Harbour, comprising the inner dock and quays; outer basin and piers; eastern breakwater; and the eastern wallGrade II* listed
Former Warehouse and Net LoftGrade II listed
Commercial HotelGrade II listed
Old BridgeGrade II listed+10See all photosPhotos 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.
Through time
St Austell from 1915 to 1929
An old map and 4 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1915
c. 1918
1929
Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where St Austell’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 15neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 44% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
103 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I6 Grade II*96 Grade II
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).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in St Austell
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The 6 Grade II* listed buildings in St Austell
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 5 are photographed.
II*Public · listed 1974Market HousePhoto: CornishYosser · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*Walls & gates · listed 1974Harbour Piers and Quays including Inner BasinOn the list as Charlestown Harbour, comprising the inner dock and quays; outer basin and piers; eastern breakwater; and the eastern wallPhoto: Amj2264 · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*Church · listed 1950Church of St John (Methodist)Photo: Ashley Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*House · listed 1950The Old Manor HousePhoto: CornishYosser · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*Church · listed 1974Wesleyan Chapel and Attached SchoolroomsPhoto: Amj2264 · CC BY-SA 4.0
House · listed 1974Long Stone
Historic streets
Charlestown Road 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.
Charlestown Road18 listed
Quay Road12 listed
North Street4 listed
Of the 103 entries, 53 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of St Austell’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas71
Inns, shops & warehouses10
Memorials, crosses & tombs5
Walls, gates & bridges5
Churches, chapels & priories5
Public & civic buildings4
Street furniture3
71 entries (69%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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.
Grade II
96 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 96 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Annas WorkshopBay ViewCaptain Thomas Agar-Robartes MemorialCask banksChimney at Lovering's China Clay Dry, CharlestownChurch of St PaulChurchyard Wall and RailingsCommercial HotelCorn MillDrinking FountainElm TerraceElm TerraceElm TerraceElm TerraceElm TerraceFormer General Wolfe Public HouseFormer Granary at Sx 0362 5188Former Gun Shed and Attached Lime KilnsFormer Smithy with Victorian Letterbox Right of Number 167Former Warehouse and Net LoftFormer copper-ore storage floor and boundary wallsFriends' Meeting HouseMasonic hall, and steps and railings to frontMemorial Water TroughMilestone Adjacent to No.11Milestone at SX 01840 52396 on Alexandra RoadMilestone on Holmbush RoadOld BridgePolmear FarmhousePondhu HouseQueen's Head HotelRashleigh Arms HotelRoad Bridge over RiverSt Austell Branch LibrarySt Austell War MemorialStone Cross in ChurchyardThe BoatshedThe Old WeighbridgeThe Pier House Hotel, Harbourside Inn and Attached OutbuildingsThe Red BankThe Stag InnTrevarrick HallWhite Hart Hotel1 and 3, Victoria Place1, Church Lane1, Market Street10, Quay Road103, Charlestown Road105, Charlestown Road107 and 109, Charlestown Road111 and 113 Charlestown Road12 to 17, QUAY ROAD12A and 12B, Fore Street13 and 15, Truro Road143, Charlestown Road15, High Cross Street15, North Street151, Charlestown Road17, North Street19, North Street2 and 6, Duporth Road2, Quay Road21, Charlestown Road21, North Street23 and 24, Quay Road25, Quay Road27, Quay Road3 and 4, Quay Road3, Vicarage Hill3-7, Fore Street30 and 32, Eastbourne Road33, 34 and 35, Quay Road4, Blowinghouse Hill4, Riverwalk45 and 45A, Charlestown Road5, High Cross Street5, Quay Road5, Riverwalk51, Charlestown Road6 and 7, Church Street6, Quay Road6-12, Victoria Place62 and 64, Charlestown Road67, Charlestown Road69, Charlestown Road7, Quay Road70, Charlestown Road72 and 74, Bodmin Road72 and 74, Charlestown Road76-80, Charlestown Road8 and 8A, Quay Road82, Charlestown Road9, Grove Road9, Quay Road93-97, Charlestown Road99, Charlestown Road
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 9.4% of St Austell
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
St Austell 196844 ha
Charlestown 196719 ha
63 hain conservation areas, of 675 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Charlestown, was designated in 1967; the newest, St Austell, in 1968. 93 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.
How the list grew
51 of St Austell’s 103 listed buildings were added in 1974
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1974 · 511999 · 181950 · 10
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The first 10 entries were listed in 1950, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 51 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 8 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
World Heritage
| Cornwall and West Devon Mining LandscapeUNESCO World Heritage Site: the town touches its mapped area, which can include a buffer zone |
2 scheduled monuments
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
History Grade
St Austell grades B+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (115 points, 47 per 10,000 residents)More than 70% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (16%)More than 48% of UK towns
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.
Born here
6 notable people born in St Austell before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
William Hennah
Charles Geach
John Colenso
William Lamerton
John Martin
Hester Parnall
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John Colenso1814–1883 · British bishop and mathematician (1814-1883)
JM
John Martin1867–1942 · (1867-1942) cricketer
CG
Charles Geach1808–1854 · English banker, founder of Midland Bank
WH
William Hennah1768–1832 · Royal Navy officer
WL
William Lamerton1843–1918 · Australian politician (1843–1918)
HP
Hester Parnall1868–1939 · Businesswoman in brewing industry, director of St Austell Brewery Com…
Everyone born in St Austell → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
St Austell has the 94th most Grade I buildings of 408 towns its size
Places of 15,000–39,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
St Austell1
#112 of 408for listed buildings per resident (42 per 10,000). Lewes, Llandudno and Stamford lead.
93 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around St Austell
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Austell | 24,361 | 103 | 1 | B+ |
| Carlyon Bay | 1,174 | 1 | 0 | D− |
| Trewoon | 1,246 | 1 | 0 | C |
| Penwithick | 1,706 | 0 | 0 | C− |
| Polgooth | 1,096 | 5 | 0 | C+ |
| St Blazey | 6,569 | 24 | 0 | B |
| Tywardreath | 2,589 | 18 | 0 | A− |
| Foxhole | 1,526 | 0 | 0 | C− |
In brief
St Austell in brief
St Austell has 103 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Holy Trinity Church. Only 93 of the 408 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On Charlestown Road alone there are 18 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1967.
Of the whole list, 69% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 6 people born here before 1900, the best known include John Colenso (1814), John Martin (1867) and Charles Geach (1808). Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has 2 scheduled monuments; and 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about St Austell’s history
How many listed buildings are there in St Austell?
Historic England lists 103 buildings inside St Austell’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 6 Grade II* and 96 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in St Austell?
One: Holy Trinity Church.
Which street in St Austell has the most listed buildings?
Charlestown Road (18), Quay Road (12) and North Street (4) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in St Austell?
Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Standing stone called the 'Long Stone' in the grounds of Penrice School and Wayside cross in Holy Trinity Church churchyard.
Is St Austell a World Heritage Site?
Part of St Austell lies within the area Historic England maps for Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, which can include a buffer zone around the site itself.
How many conservation areas are there in St Austell?
2, covering about 63 hectares of the town. The largest are St Austell and Charlestown.
When were St Austell’s buildings listed?
The first in 1950; the most, 51, in 1974.
Are there old photos of St Austell?
Yes: 4 public-domain photos and postcards from 1915 to 1929, and an old map from 1918, all on this page.
Who was born in St Austell?
Among people born before 1900: John Colenso (1814), John Martin (1867), Charles Geach (1808), William Hennah (1768) and William Lamerton (1843).
How old are the homes in St Austell?
16% of homes were built before 1919 and 25% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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