24 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

Windermere Hotel (Excluding Modern Additions)Grade II listedChurch of St MaryGrade II listedCalgarth ParkGrade II listedYe Olde Bath HouseGrade II listedThe PrioryGrade II listed+9See 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.

1890s

c. 1890

c. 1890

c. 1890

1903

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1905

c. 1912

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.

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 4 entries were listed in 1950. 14 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

26% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 14% 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 (23 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Edward Barrow Forrest

Arthur Somervell

Leonard Hall

Edwin Stephenson

John Cridland Latham

G. M. B. Dobson

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G. M. B. Dobson1889–1976 · British physicist (1889–1976)

Arthur Somervell1863–1937 · British composer and art song writer (1863–1937)

Edward Barrow Forrest1838–1914 · Australian businessman and politician

John Cridland Latham1888–1975 · United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

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Leonard Hall1866–1916 · English journalist, trade unionist and socialit activist

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Edwin Stephenson1871–1922 · British organist

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

Old houses are part of Windermere’s character: 31% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 24 listed buildings, including Windermere Hotel (Excluding Modern Additions). A conservation area has protected part of it since 2011. Most entries on the list, 75%, are houses, terraces and villas.

G. M. B. Dobson (1889), Arthur Somervell (1863) and Edward Barrow Forrest (1838) are among the 6 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1973, when 14 of the 24 went on the list. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.