215 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade I

Tiverton CastleGrade I listedChurch of St GeorgeGrade I listedSlee's AlmshousesGrade II listedThe Town HallGrade II listedLime Kiln CottageGrade II listed+7See 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. 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).

Of the 215 entries, 115 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 39 entries were listed in 1952, 4 of the 4 Grade I buildings among them. 111 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Long barrow immediately north of Blenheim House, 310m south west of Putson Cross

The Great House, Peter Street

Tiverton Castle (uninhabited buildings)

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.

Thomas Glass

Richard Cosway

Hannah Cowley

Richard Pitt

John Taylor Coleridge

William Romaine Govett

Edward Capern

William Oxenham

Charles Rossiter Forwood

Francis Bertie Boyce

Frank R. Gooding

Rhoda Anstey

William John Morrell

Dick Hellings

Thomas Henry Sage

Ronald Squire

George Jennings

Tom Jennings

Harry Mitchell

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Richard Cosway1742–1821 · British artist (1742-1821)

Harry Mitchell1898–1983 · Boxer

Hannah Cowley1743–1809 · English writer, dramatist, poet (1743-1809)

Frank R. Gooding1859–1928 · American politician (1859-1928)

RS

Ronald Squire1886–1958 · British actor (1886-1958)

John Taylor Coleridge1790–1876 · English judge (1790-1876)

GJ

George Jennings1895–1959 · English cricketer (1895-1959)

TJ

Tom Jennings1896–1972 · English cricketer (1896-1972)

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

Per resident, Tiverton has more listed heritage than 85% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 215 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade I, including Tiverton Castle. Only 24 of the 476 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On St Peter Street alone there are 26 listed buildings.

A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 70% are houses, terraces and villas. Richard Cosway (1742), Harry Mitchell (1898) and Hannah Cowley (1743) are among the 19 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, it also has 3 scheduled monuments; and 19% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.