82 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St ColumbaGrade I listedThe Glebe HouseGrade II* listedTown MillsGrade II listedThe Red Lion HotelGrade II listedThe Post OfficeGrade II listed+1See 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.

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.

Of the 82 entries, 29 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 1 entry was listed in 1952. 75 came in 1988, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 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.

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.

Richard Bonython

William Hicks

Richard Bullock

Percy Bennett

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Richard Bonython1580–1650 · English soldier and planter in America

William Hicks1778–1874 · British naval officer (1778-1874)

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Richard Bullock1847–1921 · American gunman

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Percy Bennett1869–1936 · English rugby union player (1869–1936)

Everyone born in St Columb Major → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Per resident, St Columb Major has more listed heritage than 88% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 82 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Columba's Church. Only 95 of the 1,104 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Fore Street alone has 9 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976. Of the whole list, 63% are houses, terraces and villas. Richard Bonython (1580), William Hicks (1778) and Richard Bullock (1847) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 3 scheduled monuments; and 22% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.