II*Church · listed 1961Parish Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin MaryPhoto: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Ray Girvan · CC BY-SA 2.0A+History Grade
History of Lympstone · Historic England
67 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Lympstone’s built-up area, 365 for every 10,000 residents. 66 of Lympstone’s listed buildings are Grade II. 31% of its homes were built before 1919. Lympstone grades A+ for history.
Listed buildings
67
365 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
31%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Lympstone
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Lympstone’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
67 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*66 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 II*
The Grade II* listed building in Lympstone
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Lympstone’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas52
Walls, gates & bridges8
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Street furniture2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Churches, chapels & priories1
52 entries (78%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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
66 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 66 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Alwyne Smeath's CottagesBaker's CottagesBellhangersBerry CottageBridge CottagesBridge CottagesBridge Cottages and Adjacent Shop (Hodge the Baker)Bridgethorpe and Front Wall to GardenBronte HouseClay's CottageClay's CottageCliffe CottageCrook's Corner and Olde HollowDinglesEleanorsElmside, Bass's Orchard and Lavender CottageFerndaleFigginsGreenhill and Higher GreenhillGreenhouse and Rear Garden Walls to the East of GreenhillHaresHaveringHayes Raleigh HouseHaymore Thatch and Town Dairy CottageHoneysuckle and Morton CottageHope Cottage and Fern CottageJessamine CottageK6 Telephone KioskKilrushLaureldaleLimeburning Kilns Below Rear Garden of Limekiln HouseLimeburning Kilns Immediately East of Lympstone HarbourLimekiln House Slipway CottageLittle Cot and Rose CottageLower Harefield Lodge and Railings and GatepiersLympstone War MemorialMerrylandsMetherellsOak CottageOld Orchard and Malt CottageOsborne HousePax CottagePeter's TowerQueen Anne House and Front Wall to GardenRogue's RoostSawden CottageShepherd'sSouth Lodge with Gates, Gate Piers and Section of Wall Immediately South WestSoutherleighSowden FarmhouseSowden HouseStrand HouseThe BelvedereThe Corner House and ClaremontThe ManorThe MillThe Redwing Public HouseThe Sanctuary and SunnybankThe Swan InnThornbury and Little ThornburyUnderhill HouseVarnesVentnor Cottage and Endsleigh CottageVine CottageWall Adjoining Southerleigh and Extending East on the South Side of Church Road4,5,6,7, Strand
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 20% of Lympstone
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Lympstone 197317 ha
17 hain conservation areas, of 85 ha inside the built-up area.
54 of the 67 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 Lympstone’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 351952 · 131977 · 12
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 13 entries were listed in 1952. 35 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Lympstone grades A+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (68 points, 370 per 10,000 residents)More than 87% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (31%)More than 85% 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
31% of Lympstone’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
29%
Before 1900
2.3%
1900–18
1.1%
1919–29
5.7%
1930s
13%
1945–54
14%
1955–64
10%
1965–72
4.6%
1973–82
1.1%
1983–92
1.1%
1993–99
9.2%
2000–08
2.3%
2009–15
6.9%
2016–25
LympstoneEngland & Wales
29% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, 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 (10 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Lympstone
In brief
Lympstone in brief
Old houses are part of Lympstone’s character: 31% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 67 listed buildings. For its size, it has more listed heritage than 87% of UK towns. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973.
Most entries on the list, 78%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1986, when 35 of the 67 went on the list. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and John Nutt (1599) and Arthur Bartholomew (1846) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Lympstone’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Lympstone?
Historic England lists 67 buildings inside Lympstone’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 66 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Lympstone?
1, covering about 17 hectares of the town. The largest is Lympstone.
When were Lympstone’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 35, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Lympstone?
31% of homes were built before 1919 and 38% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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