IHouse · listed 1949Forde HousePhoto: Lobsterthermidor · Public domain
Forde House · Photo: Lobsterthermidor · Public domainA−History Grade
History of Newton Abbot · Historic England
144 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Newton Abbot’s built-up area, 49 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 24% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 8 of its listed buildings. Newton Abbot grades A− for history: #22 of 47 in Devon.
Listed buildings
144
49 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
3
exceptional interest
Grade II*
3
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
24%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Newton Abbot in 8 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Parish Church of St Mary the VirginGrade I listed
Parish Church of All SaintsGrade I listed
Mackrells AlmshousesGrade II listed
Seymour House Tower HouseGrade II listed
Wolborough InnGrade II listed+3See all photosPhotos 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 Newton Abbot’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
5 of 21neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 93% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
144 listed buildings by grade
3 Grade I3 Grade II*138 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. 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).
Grade I
The 3 Grade I listed buildings in Newton Abbot
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.
IChurch · listed 1949Parish Church of St Mary the VirginPhoto: Paul Hutchinson · CC BY-SA 2.0
IChurch · listed 1949Parish Church of All SaintsPhoto: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0
Grade II*
The 3 Grade II* listed buildings in Newton Abbot
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 2 are photographed.
II*Church · listed 1949Church of St Mary AbbotsburyPhoto: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Church · listed 1949Church of St PaulPhoto: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1949St Leonards Tower
Historic streets
The Courtenay Park Road and Wolborough Street have the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Courtenay Park Road10 listed
Wolborough Street10 listed
East Street7 listed
Queen Street5 listed
Devon Square4 listed
Of the 144 entries, 53 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Newton Abbot’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas84
Walls, gates & bridges26
Churches, chapels & priories13
Public & civic buildings9
Inns, shops & warehouses9
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Street furniture1
84 entries (58%) are houses, terraces and villas. 13 are churches, chapels and priories, including 2 of the 3 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
138 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 138 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Adult Education Centre and LibraryAlexandra Theatre and Market Hall to the RearAltar Tomb Approximately 30 Metres South of South East Corner of Parish Church of All SaintsAustinsBarchington HouseBase of Old Market Cross Approximately 8 Metres North East of St Leonards TowerBeech CottageBeech ParkBelmont ClintonBlanche House and Attached Wall to the RightBradley Manor LodgeBushel HouseCastle Dyke Farm and Attached Outbuilding and Rubblestone WallChest Tomb Approximately 30 Metres South East of Chancel of Parish Church of St Mary the VirginChest Tomb Approximately 8 Metres South East of Chancel of Parish Church of St MaryChurch HouseChurch of St Joseph and Adjoining PresbyteryChurch of St LeonardChurch of St LukeChurch of St MaryChurchyard Walls and Gate Piers to Church of St Mary AbbotsburyClay CellarDevon Lodge and Forecourt Plinth and PiersDevon Villa and Attached Walls and Gate PiersForecourt Wall Gates and Gate Piers to Mackrells AlmshousesFormer Church of England Primary School Attached Wall Piers and RailingsGate Piers Gates and Railings to North East of Bradley Manor LodgeGate Piers and Gates to South East of Number 10Greenwood CottageHeadstone Approximately 2 Metres to East of Parish Church of All SaintsHele Park and Attached Walls and PiersHigh Castle Dyke FarmHighweek War MemorialLiberal ClubLloyds BankLocomotive InnLongmead and Attached Walls and Gate PiersLych Gate Approximately 20 Metres West of Chancel of Parish Church of St Mary the VirginMackrells AlmshousesManor HouseNewton Abbot Hospital Central Entrance Block Attached Walls and PiersNewton Abbot Hospital Templer HouseNewton Abbot War Memorial, including the surrounding stepped stone base, and railingsNumber 18 and Attached Rubblestone Wall to the RightNumber 2 and Attached Steps Walls and GateNumber 2 and Attached WallNumber 83 and Attached Walls and RailingsNumbers 1 and 3 and Attached Forecourt RailingsNumbers 1-8 and 8B and Attached Walls and Gate PiersNumbers 109-115 and Attached Walls and Gate PiersNumbers 117-123 Including Ropewalk to the LeftNumbers 133-147 and Attached Walls and GatepiersNumbers 23 and 24 and Attached Walls and Gate PiersNumbers 27-33 and Attached Plinths and PiersNumbers 28 and 30 and Attached WallNumbers 34, 35 and 36 and Attached Walls and Gate PiersNumbers 37, 38 and 39 and Attached Walls and Gate PiersOld Post OfficePark CottageRaised Pavement with Railings in Front of Church of St Mary and St Marys HallRooklands (Cul de Sac)Sandford OrleighSeymourSeymour House Tower HouseSomerset LodgeSt Marys CottageSt Marys HallThe Dartmouth InnThe Jolly Abbot Public HouseThe Newton GalleryThe Olde Cider BarThe Swan InnTuckers MaltingsTudor HouseTurnpike StoneTwelve TwentyTwo Cannons Approximately One Metre to the North East of St Leonards TowerUnion BridgeUnion InnWall with Arch Adjoining Union BridgeWest End Cottage and Attached Wall to the WestWhite Hart Inn and StablesWhitehill End Whitehill HouseWolborough Inn1 and 3, Wolborough Street1, Courtenay Park Road1, Highweek Street10, 12 and 12A, East Street10, Highweek Road100, Queen Street11, Torquay Road11, Wolborough Street12 and 13, Courtenay Park Road12 and 14, Courtenay Street131 and attached wall and pier East Street14 and 15, Courtenay Park Road14-24, Devon Square16 and 17, Courtenay Park Road16, Highweek Road16-34, Queen Street19 and 20, Courtenay Park Road1A Courtenay Park2 and 4, Courtenay Street21 and 22, Courtenay Park Road25 and 26, Devon Square25 and 27, East Street25-29, Courtenay Park Road3, Courtenay Park Road31, Highweek Village4, 5 and 6, Courtenay Park Road4, Bank Street4-12, St Pauls Road44, Devon Square45, Devon Square45, Wolborough Street46-62, Queen Street5 and 7, Wolborough Street52, East Street53, East Street54 and 56, East Street55, East Street57 and 61, Halcyon Road57, East Street57, Queen Street60 and 62, Ashburton Road62 and 64, Seymour Road65, Wolborough Street67, Wolborough Street69 and 71, Wolborough Street7 and 9, Bank Street7, 8 and 8A, Courtenay Park Road79 and 79A, Wolborough Street8 and 10, Courtlands Road81 and 81A, Wolborough Street84-94, Queen Street85 and 87, Wolborough Street9 and 11, Market Street9-13 Devon Square (No 9 former Town Hall)
Conservation areas
4 conservation areas cover 6.1% of Newton Abbot
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Wolborough Hill20 ha
Forde Park 197414 ha
Courtenay Park and Devon Square 197610 ha
Newton Abbot, Wolborough Street 20103 ha
45 hain conservation areas, of 742 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Forde Park, was designated in 1974; the newest, Newton Abbot, Wolborough Street, in 2010. 59 of the 144 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
55 of Newton Abbot’s 144 listed buildings were added in 1983
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1983 · 551996 · 281949 · 20
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 20 entries were listed in 1949, 3 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 55 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
History Grade
Newton Abbot 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 (155 points, 52 per 10,000 residents)More than 73% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (24%)More than 72% 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
24% of Newton Abbot’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
20%
Before 1900
3.9%
1900–18
3.7%
1919–29
4.2%
1930s
5.1%
1945–54
9.6%
1955–64
8.7%
1965–72
7.9%
1973–82
13%
1983–92
3.3%
1993–99
4.8%
2000–08
7.2%
2009–15
8.4%
2016–25
Newton AbbotEngland & Wales
20% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 13% 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 (11 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Newton Abbot has the 36th most Grade I buildings of 341 towns its size
Places of 18,000–47,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Newton Abbot3
#73 of 341for listed buildings per resident (49 per 10,000). Stamford, Bury St Edmunds and Devizes lead.
35 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Newton Abbot
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Abbot | 29,650 | 144 | 3 | A− |
| Abbotskerswell | 1,182 | 28 | 0 | B+ |
| Kingsteignton | 11,945 | 45 | 0 | B− |
| Kingskerswell | 3,761 | 27 | 0 | B |
| Denbury | 1,482 | 15 | 1 | A− |
| Ipplepen | 2,150 | 30 | 1 | A− |
| Heathfield | 1,496 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Bishopsteignton | 2,271 | 53 | 1 | A |
In brief
Newton Abbot in brief
More of Newton Abbot’s homes are old than in most places: 24% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 144 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I, including Forde House. Only 35 of the 341 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On Courtenay Park Road alone there are 10 listed buildings.
Its older streets lie in 4 conservation areas, the first designated in 1974. Of the whole list, 58% are houses, terraces and villas. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Henry Kitson (1877) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Newton Abbot’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Newton Abbot?
Historic England lists 144 buildings inside Newton Abbot’s built-up area: 3 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 138 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Newton Abbot?
3, including Forde House, Parish Church of All Saints and Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin.
Which street in Newton Abbot has the most listed buildings?
Courtenay Park Road (10), Wolborough Street (10) and East Street (7) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Newton Abbot?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Castle Dyke.
How many conservation areas are there in Newton Abbot?
4, covering about 45 hectares of the town. The largest are Wolborough Hill and Forde Park.
When were Newton Abbot’s buildings listed?
The first in 1949; the most, 55, in 1983.
How old are the homes in Newton Abbot?
24% of homes were built before 1919 and 32% 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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