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History of Sidbury · Historic England

56 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Historic England counts them inside Sidbury’s built-up area, 1,273 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Sidbury, 55 are Grade II. 37% of its homes were built before 1919.

1Grade I 5on Chapel Street

Listed buildings

1,273 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

37%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Sidbury

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Church of St Giles and St PeterGrade I listed

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 Sidbury’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Grade I

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

56 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I0 Grade II*55 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 Sidbury

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.

Church · listed 1951Church of St Giles and St PeterPhoto: Sarah Charlesworth · CC BY-SA 2.0

Historic streets

Chapel Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

Chapel Street5 listed

Church Street3 listed

Fore Street3 listed

Of the 56 entries, 13 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Sidbury’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas48

Public & civic buildings3

Churches, chapels & priories2

Walls, gates & bridges1

Inns, shops & warehouses1

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

48 entries (86%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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

55 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 55 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Bourne Cottage Bramble Cottage Buckley Dairy Farmhouse Outbuilding to Buckley Dairy Farmhouse Buckley Hill Cottage Buckley House Bundles Cherry Tree Cottage and The Cherry Tree Cafe Churchyard Wall of Congregational Chapel, Including Piers, Gates and Railings Congregational Chapel Court Hall and outhouse adjoining Court Hall to west Deepway Cottage Deepway Farmhouse Including Outhouse Greenhead Cottage Lilac Cottage Hamlyn Cottage Harvest Cottage Hawthorns Lavinia Cottage Little Thatch Moore Hall Myrtle Farmhouse Oakbridge Cottages Old Bakery Rivulet Bakery Old Clock House Red Lion Inn Old Oak House and Old Coach House Old Orchard Outbuildings of Ridgway Farmhouse Outhouse at East and of Nos 1 to 9 Ridgway Cottages Ridgway Farmhouse Riverside Deepway Rivulet Cottage Rivulet Terrace White Jays Rosehill School House Sidbury Post Office Sidbury House Sidbury War Memorial Stream Cottage The Chalet The Retreat Village Pound Vine Cottage Woodvale Cottage 103, Fore Street 104, Fore Street 105 and 106, Fore Street 13 and 14, Cotford Road 15 and 16, Cotford Road 34-36, Church Street 37 and 38, Church Street 39-43, Church Street 4 and 5, Chapel Street 71-74, Chapel Street 75, Chapel Street 76-79, Chapel Street 80 and 81, Chapel Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 34% of Sidbury

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Sidbury 19709 ha

9 hain conservation areas, of 27 ha inside the built-up area.

48 of the 56 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 Sidbury’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1973

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1973 · 471951 · 8

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 8 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 47 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

37% of Sidbury’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

32%

Before 1900

4.3%

1900–18

11%

1919–29

6.5%

1930s

6.5%

1945–54

6.5%

1955–64

3.4%

1965–72

8.2%

1973–82

9.9%

1983–92

2.6%

1993–99

5.6%

2000–08

3.4%

2009–15

2016–25

SidburyEngland & Wales

32% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1919–29, which added 11% 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 (5 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Sidbury

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Sidbury	440	56	1	—
Sidmouth	13,258	233	2	A
Ottery St Mary	6,043	49	1	A⁻
Newton Poppleford	1,918	24	0	B⁺
West Hill	2,109	2	0	C⁻
Honiton	12,155	107	0	B⁺
Feniton	1,725	0	0	D⁻
Beer	1,280	21	0	A⁻

In brief

Sidbury in brief

Old houses are part of Sidbury’s character: 37% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 56 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Of the whole list, 86% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1973: 47 of 56. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: William Hayman Cummings (1831) and Louisa Parsons (1855) were born here before 1900.

Questions about Sidbury’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Sidbury?

Historic England lists 56 buildings inside Sidbury’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 55 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Sidbury?

One: Church of St Giles and St Peter.

Which street in Sidbury has the most listed buildings?

Chapel Street (5), Church Street (3) and Fore Street (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Sidbury?

1, covering about 9 hectares of the town. The largest is Sidbury.

When were Sidbury’s buildings listed?

The first in 1951; the most, 47, in 1973.

How old are the homes in Sidbury?

37% of homes were built before 1919 and 54% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Sidbury 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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