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History of Colyford · Historic England

22 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Colyford’s built-up area, 377 for every 10,000 residents. All of Colyford’s listed buildings are Grade II. 30% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
22
377 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
30%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Colyford’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.

22 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*22 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.

What’s protected

Most of Colyford’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas15
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Public & civic buildings2
Churches, chapels & priories1
Street furniture1

15 entries (68%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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

22 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 22 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 20% of Colyford

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

Colyford 197613 ha
13 hain conservation areas, of 62 ha inside the built-up area.

17 of the 22 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

9 of Colyford’s 22 listed buildings were added in 1984

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

1984 · 91967 · 6
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 1 entry was listed in 1951. 9 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

30% of Colyford’s homes were built before 1919

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

28%
Before 1900
2.1%
1900–18
4.5%
1919–29
4.5%
1930s
2.1%
1945–54
4.5%
1955–64
10%
1965–72
12%
1973–82
12%
1983–92
8.7%
1993–99
4.5%
2000–08
5.6%
2009–15
1%
2016–25
ColyfordEngland & Wales

28% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 12% 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.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Colyford

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Colyford583220—
Colyton1,938651A
Seaton7,429151C+
Beer1,280210A−
Uplyme1,053160A−
Axminster6,094530B+
Lyme Regis3,7412095A+
Honiton12,1551070B+
In brief

Colyford in brief

Old houses are part of Colyford’s character: 30% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 22 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976. Most entries on the list, 68%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Questions about Colyford’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Colyford?

Historic England lists 22 buildings inside Colyford’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 22 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Colyford?

1, covering about 13 hectares of the town. The largest is Colyford.

When were Colyford’s buildings listed?

The first in 1951; the most, 9, in 1984.

How old are the homes in Colyford?

30% of homes were built before 1919 and 39% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Colyford 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.