IChurch · listed 1951Church of St GregoryPhoto: Pengannel · CC BY 2.0
Church of St Gregory · Photo: Pengannel · CC BY 2.0C+History Grade
History of Seaton · Historic England
15 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Seaton’s built-up area, 20 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 15% of its homes were built before 1919. Seaton grades C+ for history: #41 of 47 in Devon.
Listed buildings
15
20 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
15%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Seaton in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Cliff Castle and St ElmoGrade II listed
Bridge CottageGrade II listed
No 11 and Premises of the Women's InstituteGrade II listed
Premises of Neils and Nos 27 and 31Grade II listed
1-10 Delapole Court (Former Pole Arms Hotel)Grade II listed+1See 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 Seaton’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IScheduled monument
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 5neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 37% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
15 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*14 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 Grade I listed building in Seaton
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
14 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 14 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Belmont HouseBridge CottageCheck HouseCliff Castle and St ElmoJasmine CottageManor House Home for the ElderlyNo 11 and Premises of the Women's InstitutePremises of Neils and Nos 27 and 31Ryall's CourtWestcliff Terrace1-10 Delapole Court (Former Pole Arms Hotel)33, Fore Street6, Fore Street72 and 74, Fore Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 4.8% of Seaton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Seaton 198111 ha
11 hain conservation areas, of 238 ha inside the built-up area.
9 of the 15 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
7 of Seaton’s 15 listed buildings were added in 1983
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1983 · 7
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The first 4 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 7 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have 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
Seaton grades C+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (19 points, 26 per 10,000 residents)More than 44% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (15%)More than 46% 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.
Towns its size
Seaton has the 88th most Grade I buildings of 790 towns its size
Places of 4,000–12,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
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#448 of 790for listed buildings per resident (20 per 10,000). Brecon, Rye and Dartmouth lead.
87 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Seaton
In brief
Seaton in brief
The official list counts 15 listed buildings in Seaton, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Gregory. Only 87 of the 790 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1981. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; M. J. Coldwell (1888) and Nellie Marcia Lane Foster (1897) were born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Seaton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Seaton?
Historic England lists 15 buildings inside Seaton’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 14 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Seaton?
One: Church of St Gregory.
Are there scheduled monuments in Seaton?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Roman and earlier settlement at Honeyditches.
How many conservation areas are there in Seaton?
1, covering about 11 hectares of the town. The largest is Seaton.
When were Seaton’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 7, in 1983.
How old are the homes in Seaton?
15% of homes were built before 1919 and 26% 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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