Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.02 listed buildings
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside The Towans’s built-up area, 77 for every 10,000 residents. The Towans’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 42% of its homes were built before 1919.
Where The Towans’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.
2 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 2 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 14% of The Towans
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
2 of the 2 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.
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 |
42% of The Towans’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 1983–92, which added 10% 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 (1 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around The Towans
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Towans | 259 | 2 | 0 | — |
| Hayle | 9,040 | 101 | 0 | A |
| Carbis Bay | 3,967 | 6 | 0 | C |
| St Erth | 1,128 | 31 | 1 | A |
| Connor Downs | 1,482 | 2 | 0 | C− |
| St Ives | 5,413 | 180 | 1 | A+ |
| Reawla | 1,117 | 12 | 0 | A− |
| Crowlas | 1,054 | 3 | 0 | B− |
The Towans in brief
More of The Towans’s homes are old than in most places: 42% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 2 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1986. Beyond that, the list grew between 1986 and 2018.
Questions about The Towans’s history
How many listed buildings are there in The Towans?
Historic England lists 2 buildings inside The Towans’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 2 Grade II.
Is The Towans a World Heritage Site?
Part of The Towans 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 The Towans?
1, covering about 6 hectares of the town. The largest is Hayle.
How old are the homes in The Towans?
42% of homes were built before 1919 and 51% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
The Towans 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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