IChurch · listed 1965Church of St Cyriac and St JulittaPhoto: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: David Gearing · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Newton St Cyres · Historic England
Newton St Cyres: 44% of homes built before 1919
For Newton St Cyres, that is 3 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Historic England lists 27 buildings inside Newton St Cyres’s built-up area, 402 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
27
402 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
44%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Newton St Cyres
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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 Newton St Cyres’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
27 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*25 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 Newton St Cyres
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.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Newton St Cyres
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
House · listed 1965East Holme East Holme Cottage
What’s protected
Most of Newton St Cyres’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas19
Walls, gates & bridges4
Churches, chapels & priories3
Street furniture1
19 entries (70%) 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
25 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 25 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn and Stables Adjoining to North East of HalsesChest Tomb of John Godfrey Approximately 12 Metres West of Tower of Church of St Cyriac and St JulittaCoburgDeer's Leap Deer's Leap CottageElm CottageForgeGate Posts Approximately 40 Metres East of Glebe HouseGlebe HouseGuerinsHalses and Front Garden Wall to EastLittle BeamsLittle PickwicksNew Shuttern BridgeOld BeamsOld Shuttern BridgePump CottageShapland's CottageShuttern CottageStone Cross Above Crossroads Approximately 30 Metres North East of Church of St Cyriac and St JulittaStore Approximately 15 Metres South of Elm CottageYe Olde Cottage1 and 2194, 5 and 651, 52 and 53
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Newton St Cyres
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
No data available for publication by HE23 ha
23 hain conservation areas, of 23 ha inside the built-up area.
27 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 Newton St Cyres’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 151965 · 12
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 12 entries were listed in 1965, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 15 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
44% of Newton St Cyres’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
42%
Before 1900
2.6%
1900–18
0%
1919–29
5.6%
1930s
4.3%
1945–54
5.6%
1955–64
14%
1965–72
5.6%
1973–82
5.6%
1983–92
2.6%
1993–99
4.3%
2000–08
2.6%
2009–15
5.6%
2016–25
Newton St CyresEngland & Wales
42% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Newton St Cyres
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newton St Cyres | 672 | 27 | 1 | — |
| Crediton | 7,971 | 186 | 1 | A |
| Exeter | 126,181 | 762 | 22 | A− |
| Silverton | 1,501 | 43 | 1 | A |
| West Clyst | 2,683 | 2 | 0 | D− |
| Clyst Honiton | 1,030 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Broadclyst | 1,549 | 43 | 1 | A |
| Copplestone | 1,475 | 12 | 1 | A− |
In brief
Newton St Cyres in brief
Old houses are part of Newton St Cyres’s character: 44% 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 protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 70%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1984, when 15 of the 27 went on the list.
Questions about Newton St Cyres’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Newton St Cyres?
Historic England lists 27 buildings inside Newton St Cyres’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 25 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Newton St Cyres?
One: Church of St Cyriac and St Julitta.
How many conservation areas are there in Newton St Cyres?
1, covering about 23 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Newton St Cyres’s buildings listed?
The first in 1965; the most, 15, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Newton St Cyres?
44% of homes were built before 1919 and 50% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Newton St Cyres 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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