49 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

The Chanter's HouseGrade II* listedThe PrioryGrade II* listedTown Mill and Circular Weir to North WestGrade II listedKings ArmsGrade II listedSt Saviours BridgeGrade 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.

Of the 49 entries, 15 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 15 entries were listed in 1952, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 29 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have 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.

Isaac Heard

James Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

James Pulman

Edward Davy

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

Frederick Coleridge

Alice Coleridge

Hugh Whitby

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834 · English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1772–1834)

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge1820–1894 · British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician (1820-1894)

Edward Davy1806–1885 · British doctor and scientist (1806–1885)

Isaac Heard1730–1822 · Officer of Arms (1730-1822)

JC

James Coleridge1759–1836 · English soldier, older brother of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

JP

James Pulman1783–1859 · English officer of arms (1783-1859)

FC

Frederick Coleridge1826–1906 · (1826-1906)

AC

Alice Coleridge1846–1907 · British promoter of girls' schools (1846–1907)

Everyone born in Ottery St Mary → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

The official list counts 49 listed buildings in Ottery St Mary, 1 of them Grade I, including St Mary's Church. Only 87 of the 883 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 76%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772), John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820) and Edward Davy (1806) are among the 9 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1974, when 29 of the 49 went on the list. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 19% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.