IChurch · listed 1955Church of St John the BaptistPhoto: Owain.davies · CC BY 3.0
Church of St John the Baptist · Photo: Owain.davies · CC BY 3.0–Not graded
History of Lustleigh · Historic England
27 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Lustleigh’s built-up area, 975 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 26 of Lustleigh’s listed buildings. 35% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
27
975 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
35%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Lustleigh’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
27 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*26 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.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Lustleigh
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.
What’s protected
Most of Lustleigh’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas18
Walls, gates & bridges4
Churches, chapels & priories3
Inns, shops & warehouses2
18 entries (67%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
26 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 26 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn Abutting Church House on the South-EastBishop's Stone Set in the Garden Wall of Caseley Bungalow, About 15 Metres South-East of the Road to CaseleyBow CottageChurch HouseCleave HotelDartmoor CottageLantern on Churchyard Wall of Church of St John About 6 Metres East of LychgateLinhay About 10 Metres to South-West of Middle WreylandLittleholm Pound CottagesLower WreylandLychgate and Perimeter Wall of Churchyard of Church of St JohnLynnfieldMiddle WreylandMoorlandsOld VestryPair of Cottages on the East Side of the Green About 22 Metres South-West of Cleave HotelPair of Lodges and Gate at West Corner of Road to CaseleyPethybridge CottagePound CottagesRock CottagesRudge FarmhouseSouther WreylandStable House Gallery, Spring Cottage and Stable HouseThe Barn HouseThe Tallet HouseWreyland Manor
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 20% of Lustleigh
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Lustleigh 19738 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 42 ha inside the built-up area.
21 of the 27 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
More than half of Lustleigh’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 191955 · 8
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 8 entries were listed in 1955, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 19 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
35% of Lustleigh’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
30%
Before 1900
3.9%
1900–18
6.5%
1919–29
6.5%
1930s
2.6%
1945–54
6.5%
1955–64
7.7%
1965–72
1.3%
1973–82
6.5%
1983–92
10%
1993–99
3.9%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
14%
2016–25
LustleighEngland & Wales
30% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 14% 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 (2 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Lustleigh
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lustleigh | 277 | 27 | 1 | — |
| Bovey Tracey | 6,241 | 65 | 1 | A− |
| Moretonhampstead | 1,334 | 66 | 2 | A+ |
| Coldeast | 1,186 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Heathfield | 1,496 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Chudleigh Knighton | 1,168 | 11 | 0 | B+ |
| Chudleigh | 4,372 | 49 | 1 | A− |
| Chagford | 1,107 | 50 | 1 | A+ |
In brief
Lustleigh in brief
Old houses are part of Lustleigh’s character: 35% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 27 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 67%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1986, when 19 of the 27 went on the list.
Questions about Lustleigh’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Lustleigh?
Historic England lists 27 buildings inside Lustleigh’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 26 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Lustleigh?
One: Church of St John the Baptist.
How many conservation areas are there in Lustleigh?
1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Lustleigh.
When were Lustleigh’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 19, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Lustleigh?
35% of homes were built before 1919 and 48% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Lustleigh has no History Grade.
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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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