22 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Chapel of St JamesGrade II* listedBrock's AlmshousesGrade II listedTown MillGrade II listedWhite Hart HotelGrade II listedOkehampton Roman fort, fortlet and associated enclosuresScheduled monument+5See 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.

c. 1890

c. 1890

c. 1890

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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).

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 1952. 11 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

RomanOkehampton Roman fort, fortlet and associated enclosures

1 registered park or garden

Simmons ParkGrade II

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.

Hugh de Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon

James Meadows Rendel

William Paltridge

James Churchward

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James Churchward1851–1936 · British occult writer (1851–1936)

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Hugh de Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon1276–1340 · English noble

James Meadows Rendel1799–1856 · British civil engineer (1799–1856)

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William Paltridge1834–1890 · South Australian politician (1834–1890)

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

Okehampton has 22 listed buildings, including Town Hall. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1990. Of the 4 people born here before 1900, the best known include James Churchward (1851), Hugh de Courtenay, 9th Earl of Devon (1276) and James Meadows Rendel (1799). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.