IChurch · listed 1968St German's PrioryOn the list as Church of St GermanusPhoto: Nilfanion · CC BY-SA 3.0
Church of St Germanus · Photo: Nilfanion · CC BY-SA 3.0–Not graded
History of St Germans · Historic England
St Germans: 52% of homes built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: St Germans has 4 times the share. Historic England lists 21 buildings inside St Germans’s built-up area, 400 for every 10,000 residents. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings.
Listed buildings
21
400 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
2
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
52%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of St Germans
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Port Eliot HouseGrade I listed
Orangery with Urn About 12 Metres to North and Busts Arranged to South, Port EliotGrade II* listed
Town LodgeGrade II* listed+1See 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.
The map
Where St Germans’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
21 listed buildings by grade
2 Grade I2 Grade II*17 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.
Grade I
The 2 Grade I listed buildings in St Germans
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.
IHouse · listed 1951Port EliotOn the list as Port Eliot HousePhoto: Rod Allday · CC BY-SA 2.0
Grade II*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in St Germans
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*House · listed 1968Orangery with Urn About 12 Metres to North and Busts Arranged to South, Port EliotPhoto: Mel Landells · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*House · listed 1968Town LodgePhoto: Nilfanion · CC BY-SA 3.0
What’s protected
Most of St Germans’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas12
Walls, gates & bridges5
Churches, chapels & priories2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Public & civic buildings1
12 entries (57%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 2 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
17 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 17 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Ferry CottageFountainGate Piers and Gate About 18 Metres North of the VicarageHawthorns Nut Tree CottageLychgate and Attached Railings About 30 Metres South of Church of St GermansOld Kitchen Garden Walls, Port EliotOld Police HousesRailings, Gateway and Wall Attached to South East of the Gardener's CottageRailway BridgeRoseland and House Attached to LeftSt Germans Church of England SchoolSt Germans Church of England School and the Gardener's Cottage with Attached WallsSt Germans Sailing Club BoathouseThe VicarageTripcony House1,2 and 3, Church Street1-4, Quay Road
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 46% of St Germans
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
St Germans 197615 ha
15 hain conservation areas, of 31 ha inside the built-up area.
21 of the 21 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
More than half of St Germans’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1987 · 17
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1951, 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 17 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 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.
1 registered park or garden
Port EliotGrade I
Homes by age
52% of St Germans’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
54%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
1.3%
1919–29
1.3%
1930s
7%
1945–54
2.2%
1955–64
10%
1965–72
15%
1973–82
3.5%
1983–92
1.3%
1993–99
2.2%
2000–08
1.3%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
St GermansEngland & Wales
54% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 15% 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.
Born here
6 notable people born in St Germans before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
John Eliot
John Eliot
Montfort Browne
John Eliot, 1st Earl of St Germans
Henry Furneaux
Bill Dempsey
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John Eliot1592–1632 · Member of Parliament, Statesman and Vice-Admiral of Devon (1592-1632)
JE
John Eliot1742–1769 · British Royal Navy captain (1742-1769)
JG
John Eliot, 1st Earl of St Germans1761–1823 · British politician
HF
Henry Furneaux1829–1900 · British classical scholar (1829-1900)
BD
Bill Dempsey1896–1967 · English footballer (1896-1967)
MB
Montfort Browne1760–1780 · Royal governor of West Florida and The Bahamas
Everyone born in St Germans → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around St Germans
In brief
St Germans in brief
More of St Germans’s homes are old than in most places: 52% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 21 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976.
Most entries on the list, 57%, are houses, terraces and villas. John Eliot (1592), John Eliot (1742) and John Eliot, 1st Earl of St Germans (1761) are among the 6 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1987, when 17 of the 21 went on the list.
Questions about St Germans’s history
How many listed buildings are there in St Germans?
Historic England lists 21 buildings inside St Germans’s built-up area: 2 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 17 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in St Germans?
2, including Church of St Germanus and Port Eliot House.
How many conservation areas are there in St Germans?
1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is St Germans.
When were St Germans’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 17, in 1987.
Who was born in St Germans?
Among people born before 1900: John Eliot (1592), John Eliot (1742), John Eliot, 1st Earl of St Germans (1761), Henry Furneaux (1829) and Bill Dempsey (1896).
How old are the homes in St Germans?
52% of homes were built before 1919 and 55% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
St Germans 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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