87 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Parish Church of St GregoryGrade II* listedStonelandsGrade II* listedTorbay MillsGrade II listedLamorna HotelGrade II listedJubilee BridgeGrade 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.

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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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Of the 87 entries, 30 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 27 entries were listed in 1951. 49 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

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.

Thomas Vowler Short

Robert James Shuttleworth

Robert John Dickson Burnie

Arthur George Hammond

Ludovic Charles Porter

Henry Singleton Pennell

Igerna Sollas

Frederick Holman

Aylward M. Blackman

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Frederick Holman1883–1913 · British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder

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Robert James Shuttleworth1810–1874 · English botanist and malacologist (1810-1874)

Thomas Vowler Short1790–1872 · Church of England bishop (1790-1872)

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Aylward M. Blackman1883–1956 · British egyptologist (1883-1956)

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Igerna Sollas1877–1965 · British naturalist

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Robert John Dickson Burnie1842–1908 · Politician (1842–1908)

Henry Singleton Pennell1874–1907 · English military officer (1874–1907); recipient of the Victoria Cross

Arthur George Hammond1843–1919 · English military officer (1843–1919); recipient of the Victoria Cross

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

The official list counts 87 listed buildings in Dawlish, including St Gregory's Church. Brunswick Place alone has 8 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 76% are houses, terraces and villas.

Frederick Holman (1883), Robert James Shuttleworth (1810) and Thomas Vowler Short (1790) are among the 9 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1985: 49 of 87. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 22% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.