IHouse · listed 1949A la RondePhoto: Becks · CC BY 2.0
A la Ronde · Photo: Becks · CC BY 2.0B+History Grade
History of Exmouth · Historic England
117 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Exmouth’s built-up area, 33 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Exmouth, 113 are Grade II. We have photos of 7 of its listed buildings and 3 old views of the town. 22% of its homes were built before 1919. Exmouth grades B+ for history: #27 of 47 in Devon.
Listed buildings
117
33 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
3
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
22%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Exmouth in 10 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Parish Church of the Holy TrinityGrade II* listed
The BarnGrade II* listed
Manor HotelGrade II listed
The Jubilee Clock TowerGrade II listed
Premises Occupied by Temple Winds Antiques and GiftsGrade II listed+5See all photosPhotos 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.
Through time
Exmouth from 1850 to 1890
3 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1850
c. 1890
c. 1890Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where Exmouth’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Park or garden
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
4 of 21neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 70% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
117 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I3 Grade II*113 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. 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).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Exmouth
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The 3 Grade II* listed buildings in Exmouth
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Church · listed 1978Holy Trinity ChurchOn the list as Parish Church of the Holy TrinityPhoto: Sarah Charlesworth · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*House · listed 1972The BarnPhoto: Simon Cobb · CC0
II*Church · listed 1949St Margaret and St Andrew's Church, LittlehamOn the list as Parish Church of St Margaret and St AndrewPhoto: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0
Historic streets
Bicton Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Bicton Street11 listed
Bicton Place6 listed
The Beacon6 listed
The Strand6 listed
Clarence Road4 listed
North Street4 listed
Albion Terrace3 listed
Louisa Terrace3 listed
Of the 117 entries, 52 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Exmouth’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas86
Street furniture14
Churches, chapels & priories6
Walls, gates & bridges5
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Public & civic buildings1
86 entries (74%) are houses, terraces and villas. 6 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
113 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 113 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Alma HouseAthelstan CottageBassetts FarmhouseBeacon Hill HouseBoldbrook CottageBystock CourtChurch of St AndrewEldin HouseF Nightingale Ltd and Strand Corner Holiday FlatletsGarden Wall at the BarnGate Piers at Entrance to the BarnGaveney HouseGreengates CottagesKnappe CrossLamp Standard (Opposite Entrance to Unnamed Roadway Between the Beacon and Louisa TerraceLamp Standard (Opposite Premises of Exmouth Wine Company Ltd)Lychgate and Walls to St Andrews ChurchLychgate at Entrance to Churchyard of Parish Church of St Margaret and St AndrewManor CottageManor HotelMethodist ChurchMundy's Farmhouse and the Country CottageNo 10 and Area RailingsNo 12 and Area RailingsNo 16 and Area RailingsNo 17 and Area RailingsNo 18 and Area RailingsNo 19 (Byron Hotel), Railings to Steps and Area RailingsNo 20 and Area RailingsNo 21, Handrail and Area RailingsNo 22, Handrail and Area RailingsNo 23 (Royal Beacon Hotel) and Area RailingsNo 23 Japonica (Including Flat 2)No 5 and Area RailingsNo 6 and Area RailingsNos 3, 4 and Area RailingsNos 5 and 5A No 6 (Rozel)Nos 7, 8 and Area RailingsParish Church of St John, The EvangelistParrysPearson's GaragePilot LightsPorch CottagesPremises Occupied by Temple Winds Antiques and GiftsSea WallSouth Western Electricity BoardStrangfordSummerhouse at the BarnThe Bridgewater Building SocietyThe CottageThe Jubilee Clock TowerThe Old Manor HouseThe Old Vicarage and Attached Street Boundary WallThe Sail LoftThe TempleTravershesTravershes CottageTrinity Buoy StoreWar MemorialWithycombe HouseYe Olde Tithe Cottage Tea Rooms1 and 1A, The Beacon1 and 2, Albion Terrace1 and 3, Rolle Road1-27, Clarence Road10, Bicton Place11 and 13, Bicton Street11, The Beacon12, Bicton Street13, Bicton Place13, The Beacon14, Bicton Street14, The Beacon14-22, Montpellier Road15 and 15A, The Beacon15 and 17, Bicton Street15, North Street17, Chapel Hill17, North Street18, Bicton Street19, Bicton Street19, North Street2 Gatepiers at No 372 and 4, Montpellier Road2, Queen's Court2-6, Henrietta Road20-72, Bicton Street21, The Strand27, Bicton Street29, Bicton Street29, Clarence Road3 and 4, Albion Terrace3 and 4, Louisa Terrace31 and 33, Clarence Road31-41, North Street35, The Strand36 and 37, The Strand4, Bicton Place4-8, Clarence Road40, The Strand45, The Strand45-53, Bicton Street46, The Strand5 and 6, Louisa Terrace5, Bicton Place6, 6A and 7, Bicton Place7 and 8, Albion Terrace7 and 9, Bicton Street8-16, Windsor Square9 and 10, Louisa Terrace9, Bicton Place9, The Beacon9A, 9B and 9, Rolle Road
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 4% of Exmouth
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Exmouth 197339 ha
39 hain conservation areas, of 970 ha inside the built-up area.
84 of the 117 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
57 of Exmouth’s 117 listed buildings were added in 1978
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1978 · 571949 · 31
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 31 entries were listed in 1949, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 57 came in 1978, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
A la Ronde and The Point-in-ViewGrade II
History Grade
Exmouth grades B+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (123 points, 35 per 10,000 residents)More than 67% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (22%)More than 67% of UK towns
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.
Homes by age
22% of Exmouth’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
16%
Before 1900
6%
1900–18
3.6%
1919–29
6.7%
1930s
6.1%
1945–54
8.3%
1955–64
15%
1965–72
12%
1973–82
6.7%
1983–92
6.2%
1993–99
5.5%
2000–08
2.7%
2009–15
4.7%
2016–25
ExmouthEngland & Wales
16% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 15% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
6 notable people born in Exmouth before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Frederick Bond
Collett Leventhorpe
Charles Gifford
William Francis de Vismes Kane
Editha Knocker
James Grigg
1800182518501875190019251950
James Grigg1890–1964 · British politician (1890-1964)
Collett Leventhorpe1815–1889 · Confederate Army general (1815-1889)
William Francis de Vismes Kane1840–1918 · English entomologist (1840 – 1918)
Frederick Bond1811–1889 · English entomologist (1811-1889)
Charles Gifford1821–1896 · Canadian politician
Editha Knocker1869–1950 · English violinist, conductor, teacher and author (1869-1950)
Everyone born in Exmouth → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Exmouth
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exmouth | 35,502 | 117 | 1 | B+ |
| Lympstone | 1,838 | 67 | 0 | A+ |
| Starcross | 1,687 | 22 | 1 | B+ |
| Exton | 1,287 | 9 | 0 | B+ |
| Dawlish Warren | 1,191 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Budleigh Salterton | 5,237 | 37 | 0 | B+ |
| Woodbury | 1,749 | 45 | 1 | A |
| Dawlish | 11,800 | 87 | 0 | A− |
In brief
Exmouth in brief
Old houses are part of Exmouth’s character: 22% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 117 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including A la Ronde. On Bicton Street alone there are 11 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973.
Of the whole list, 74% are houses, terraces and villas. James Grigg (1890), Collett Leventhorpe (1815) and William Francis de Vismes Kane (1840) are among the 6 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Exmouth’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Exmouth?
Historic England lists 117 buildings inside Exmouth’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 113 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Exmouth?
One: A la Ronde.
Which street in Exmouth has the most listed buildings?
Bicton Street (11), Bicton Place (6) and The Beacon (6) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
How many conservation areas are there in Exmouth?
1, covering about 39 hectares of the town. The largest is Exmouth.
When were Exmouth’s buildings listed?
The first in 1949; the most, 57, in 1978.
Are there old photos of Exmouth?
Yes: 3 public-domain photos and postcards from 1850 to 1890, all on this page.
Who was born in Exmouth?
Among people born before 1900: James Grigg (1890), Collett Leventhorpe (1815), William Francis de Vismes Kane (1840), Frederick Bond (1811) and Charles Gifford (1821).
How old are the homes in Exmouth?
22% of homes were built before 1919 and 33% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
© 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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