33 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Former SchoolGrade II listedFairlea Residential HomeGrade II listedNortham War MemorialGrade II listedStone Tablet at Bloody Corner (Approximately 700 Yards East of St Margaret's Church)Grade II listed+1See all photos

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.

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.

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.

The first 7 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 20 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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.

Jack Rowe

Jack Oke

Josh Taylor

George Stapledon

Jack Taylor

18501875190019251950

GS

George Stapledon1882–1960 · British scientist

Jack Rowe1870–1962 · Golfer (1870-1962)

JO

Jack Oke1880–1950 · Golfer (1880-1950)

Josh Taylor1881–1957 · English professional golfer

JT

Jack Taylor1897–1971 · English professional golfer (1897–1971)

Everyone born in Northam → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

The official list counts 33 listed buildings in Northam, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Margaret. Only 80 of the 924 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas.

George Stapledon (1882), Jack Rowe (1870) and Jack Oke (1880) are among the 5 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1973, when 20 of the 33 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 18% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.