107 listed buildings, 6 of them Grade II*

Church of St Michael and All Angels and lych gateGrade II* listed39 and 41, New StreetGrade II* listedTown MillGrade II listedCopper Castle GatesGrade II listedNo 33 Star Hotel and No 35Grade II listed+2See 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.

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).

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 26 entries were listed in 1949. 73 came in 1972, 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.

George Blagdon Westcott

William Harris Murch

William Salter

Charles William Bowerman

Bertram Kirwan

Hubert Isacke

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William Salter1804–1875 · British portrait painter (1804-1875)

Charles William Bowerman1851–1947 · British trade unionist and politician (1851-1947)

George Blagdon Westcott1753–1798 · British Royal Navy officer (1753-1798)

William Harris Murch1784–1859 · Baptist teacher

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Bertram Kirwan1871–1960 · British general

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Hubert Isacke1872–1943 · British Army officer

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

Per resident, Honiton has more listed heritage than 78% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 107 listed buildings, including Manor House. On High Street alone there are 49 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1972.

Of the whole list, 78% are houses, terraces and villas. William Salter (1804), Charles William Bowerman (1851) and George Blagdon Westcott (1753) are among the 6 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1972: 73 of 107. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and 11% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.