216 listed buildings, 16 of them Grade II*

Broadway HouseGrade II* listedClara PlaceGrade II* listedWarehouse Between Nos 3 and 4Grade II listedPassage InnGrade II listedRailway StationGrade II listed+14See 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.

Fore Street46 listed

The Strand29 listed · 4 II*

Monmouth Street15 listed

Ferry Road8 listed

High Street7 listed

White Street6 listed

Higher Shapter Street5 listed

Lower Shapter Street4 listed

Monmouth Hill4 listed

Exe Street3 listed

Majorfield Road3 listed

Victoria Road3 listed

Of the 216 entries, 136 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 47 entries were listed in 1952. 152 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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.

24% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 17% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

William Webb Follett

Philip Melvill

George Warren

Anne Ward

Gilbert Thomas Carter

Dick Pym

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Dick Pym1893–1988 · English footballer (1893-1988)

Gilbert Thomas Carter1848–1927 · Administrator of the Government of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago,…

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Anne Ward1825–1896 · New Zealand activist

William Webb Follett1796–1845 · English lawyer and politician

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Philip Melvill1796–1882 · British Bengal Army officer

George Warren1801–1884 · General

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

For its size, Topsham has more listed heritage than 96% of UK towns. In all there are 216 listed buildings, including St Margaret's Church. Of its homes, 25% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. On Fore Street alone there are 46 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1967. Of the whole list, 81% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 6 people born here before 1900, the best known include Dick Pym (1893), Gilbert Thomas Carter (1848) and Anne Ward (1825). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building.