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History of Chardstock · Historic England

23 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Chardstock’s built-up area, 801 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Chardstock, 21 are Grade II. 31% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
23
801 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
31%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Chardstock

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

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.

The map

Where Chardstock’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Church of St Andrew, Grade II*The George Public House Including Outbuilding Adjoining North East, Grade II*
Grade II*

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

23 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*21 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 II*

The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Chardstock

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Inns & shops · listed 1967The George InnOn the list as The George Public House Including Outbuilding Adjoining North EastPhoto: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected

Most of Chardstock’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas13
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Churches, chapels & priories2
Walls, gates & bridges2
Public & civic buildings2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

13 entries (57%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories.

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

21 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 21 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 26% of Chardstock

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Chardstock 19738 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 31 ha inside the built-up area.

20 of the 23 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 Chardstock’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1984 · 17
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The first 4 entries were listed in 1967. 17 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

31% of Chardstock’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

33%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
4%
1919–29
6.4%
1930s
12%
1945–54
12%
1955–64
4%
1965–72
2.4%
1973–82
6.4%
1983–92
16%
1993–99
4%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
ChardstockEngland & Wales

33% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1993–99, which added 16% 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 (5 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Chardstock

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Chardstock287230—
Tatworth2,287140B
Chard14,2871562B+
Axminster6,094530B+
Horton and Broadway1,212120B+
Ilminster5,9611441A
Uplyme1,053160A−
Charmouth1,337350A
In brief

Chardstock in brief

More of Chardstock’s homes are old than in most places: 31% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 23 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Of the whole list, 57% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1984: 17 of 23.

Questions about Chardstock’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Chardstock?

Historic England lists 23 buildings inside Chardstock’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 21 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Chardstock?

1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Chardstock.

When were Chardstock’s buildings listed?

The first in 1967; the most, 17, in 1984.

How old are the homes in Chardstock?

31% of homes were built before 1919 and 41% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Chardstock 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.