IChurch · listed 1967Church of St MichaelPhoto: Sealman · Public domain
Church of St Michael · Photo: Sealman · Public domain–Not graded
History of Musbury · Historic England
23 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Musbury’s built-up area, 410 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 22 of Musbury’s listed buildings. 33% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
23
410 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
33%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Musbury’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.
23 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*22 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 Musbury
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 Musbury’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas20
Churches, chapels & priories1
Public & civic buildings1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
20 entries (87%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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
22 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 22 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn and Stable Range Immediately South West of Musbury Farm HouseBundelsCob Cottage Little ThatchCrosswaysHope Cottage LittlemeadLaurel CottageMalvern HouseMay CottageMay HouseMonmouth HouseMountfield Including Terrace Balustrade Immediately WestMusbury Farm HouseMusbury Stores and Post OfficeMusbury War MemorialMyrtle CottageSomervilleStable Range Immediately West of the Old CottageThe Old CottageViolet CottageYew Tree CottageYew Tree HouseYonda Mount Cottage
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 27% of Musbury
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Musbury 19946 ha
6 hain conservation areas, of 21 ha inside the built-up area.
17 of the 23 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 Musbury’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 19
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1967, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 19 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
33% of Musbury’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
32%
Before 1900
1.9%
1900–18
1.9%
1919–29
9.1%
1930s
9.1%
1945–54
5.3%
1955–64
14%
1965–72
11%
1973–82
3.4%
1983–92
3.4%
1993–99
9.1%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
MusburyEngland & Wales
32% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Musbury
In brief
Musbury in brief
Old houses are part of Musbury’s character: 33% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 23 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1994. Most entries on the list, 87%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1984, when 19 of the 23 went on the list.
Questions about Musbury’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Musbury?
Historic England lists 23 buildings inside Musbury’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 22 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Musbury?
One: Church of St Michael.
How many conservation areas are there in Musbury?
1, covering about 6 hectares of the town. The largest is Musbury.
When were Musbury’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 19, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Musbury?
33% of homes were built before 1919 and 44% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Musbury 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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