115 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

The Old Grammar SchoolGrade II* listedThe ShamblesGrade II* listedNos 9 and 11 and Attached WarehouseGrade II listedHermitage BarGrade II listedKing of Prussia InnGrade II listed+3See 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 12 entries were listed in 1949, 2 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 99 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 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.

23% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, 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.

William Cookworthy

John Wolcot

John Scoble

Courtenay Ilbert

James Trinnick

William R. Cornish

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John Wolcot1738–1819 · British satirist and physician; his pseudonym was Peter Pindar

William Cookworthy1705–1780 · British pharmacist

John Scoble1799–1877 · Canadian politician

Courtenay Ilbert1841–1924 · British barrister, and olonial administrator; active in India

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James Trinnick1853–1928 · Cricketer (1853-1928)

WC

William R. Cornish1890–1969 · Canadian politician (1890-1969)

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

More of Kingsbridge’s homes are old than in most places: 24% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 115 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I, including Church of St Edmund. For its size, it has more listed heritage than 88% of UK towns. Only 46 of the 910 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

On Fore Street alone there are 61 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 78%, are houses, terraces and villas.