Pines · Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0

History of Beaminster · Historic England

151 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Historic England counts them inside Beaminster’s built-up area, 504 for every 10,000 residents. 140 of Beaminster’s listed buildings are Grade II. 23% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 7 of its listed buildings. Beaminster grades A+ for history: #5 of 30 in Dorset.

1Grade I 10Grade II*17on Hogshill Street

Listed buildings

151

504 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

2 registered parks & gardens

Homes built before 1919

23%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Beaminster in 7 photos

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Church of St MaryGrade I listed

Barton End, And Attached Walls at RearGrade II* listed

Eight Bells InnGrade II listed

Wesleyan ChapelGrade II listed

Bridge HouseGrade II listed+2See 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.

The map

Where Beaminster’s history is

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

Grade IGrade II*Park or garden

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

151 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I10 Grade II*140 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 Beaminster

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 1966Church of St MaryPhoto: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The 10 Grade II* listed buildings in Beaminster

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 3 are photographed.

House · listed 1953PinesPhoto: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0

Walls & gates · listed 1983Barton End, And Attached Walls at RearPhoto: Martin Bodman · CC BY-SA 2.0

Walls & gates · listed 1953Champions with Front Wall 30 Metres to SouthPhoto: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1953Devonia

House · listed 1953Farrs

Walls & gates · listed 1953Hitts House and Front Walls, Wagon Stones and Continuations to East and West

Inns & shops · listed 1953Midland Bank

House · listed 1983Stable Block 25 Metres East of the Manor House

House · listed 1953The Manor House and Stable Block

House · listed 1983The Yews

Historic streets

Hogshill 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.

Hogshill Street17 listed

Fleet Street15 listed

Church Street10 listed

North Street8 listed

East Street6 listed

St Mary Well Street5 listed

Shadrack Street4 listed

Of the 151 entries, 69 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Beaminster’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas115

Walls, gates & bridges18

Inns, shops & warehouses10

Churches, chapels & priories3

Street furniture2

Public & civic buildings2

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

115 entries (76%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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

140 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 140 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Aplin and Barrett Technical Services Beaminster Auto Bodies Beaminster Youth Centre Bridge House Bridge Immediately East of No 15 Brook Cottage Brook House with Attached Railings Chemists and Grocers Churchyard Wall with Attached Gate Piers and Ramp, 10 Metres North East of Church Colsons Congregational Chapel and attached stone wall along road to north east Cottage, Immediately North West of Hitts House County Library with Flat Above Croft Cottage Daniels House Antiques East Cottage Edgeley Cottage Eight Bells Inn Elsa Chapman Flax Mill Cottage Gargoyles Gate Piers and Wall at Entrance to Manor House Gate Piers to Granary Cottage Gateway Building Society Gething and Bowditch Glebe Cottage Good Hope Antiques Grey Cottage Greyhound Inn Hams Plot Hogshill Stores K6 Telephone Kiosk Next to the Bridge House Restaurant, Prout Hill Kitchen Garden Walls and Entrance Gate Circa 100 Metres East of Manor House Knowle Cottage, And Attached Walls and Gate Piers Lawrence Estate Agents London House London House and Lawrence Estate Agents Lloyds Bank Mainly Men Minster View Myrtle Cottage No 12, And Attached House (At Left Hand)No 24, Including Railings Along Front Wall No 7, Including Railings Along Street Front Nos 12 and 14 and Attached Rubble Stone Wall Number 1 Higher Green Number 62 the Green Numbers 64 and 66 the Green Old School Room Pickwicks Inn Royal Oak Inn Rw Trocian Sandford Cottage Satyrs Strode Room The Beaminster Institute The Cellar The Chimes The Lodge The Old Vicarage The Robinson Memorial The Walnuts Wall West of No 62, Along the Street Walls and Gate Piers Between Barton End and No 48 Walls and Gate Piers, To No 36 Warehouse 10 Metres West of Pines Washeteria Wesleyan Chapel Whatley Mill Whatleys Farmhouse White Hart Hotel Woodlands Wynford and Front Garden Wall 1 and 3, Fleet Street 1, Church Street 1, East Street 1, Hogshill Street 10, Fleet Street 11 and 13, Hogshill Street 11, East Street 12 and 14, Fleet Street 12, Church Street 14, Church Street 15 and 17 Hogshill Street 15 and 17, East Street 15 and 17, Shadrack Street 16, North Street 16, St Mary Well Street 17, North Street 17, The Square 18 and 20, Hogshill Street 18, Church Street 18, Fleet Street 18, St Mary Well Street 19 and 21, North Street 1A, North Street 2, Shorts Lane 2-14, St Mary Well Street 20 and 22, Church Street 20, 22 and 22A, Fleet Street 20, North Street 21 and 22, The Square 21 and 23, Hogshill Street 22 and 26, Hogshill Street 22, St Mary Well Street 23 and 25, North Street 25 and 27, Fleet Street 26, Fleet Street 27 and 29, North Street 28 30 32, Church Street 29, Fleet Street 3, East Street 32 34 36 and 38, Fleet Street 32, Hogshill Street 34 and 36, Church Street 4 and 6, Hogshill Street 4, Church Street 4, Fleet Street 4, North Street 4, Shadrack Street 40, 42 and 46, Hogshill Street 45, Fleet Street 46, Fleet Street 47 51 and 53, Fleet Street 5 and 9, St Mary Well Street 50 and 54 Hogshill Street 52, Fleet Street 56, Hogshill Street 57, Hogshill Street 58 and 60, Hogshill Street 59, Hogshill Street 6, Church Street 6, East Street 6, Shadrack Street 61 and 63, Hogshill Street 62, Hogshill Street 7 Table Tombs in St Marys Churchyard 7 and 9, East Street 7 and 9, Hogshill Street 8, Church Street 9 and 11, Fleet Street 9 and 11, Shadrack Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 28% of Beaminster

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

Beaminster37 ha

37 hain conservation areas, of 131 ha inside the built-up area.

143 of the 151 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 Beaminster’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983

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

1983 · 1021953 · 40

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The first 40 entries were listed in 1953. 102 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.

2 registered parks and gardens

Beaminster ManorGrade II

Parnham HouseGrade II*

History Grade

Beaminster grades A+ for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (166 points, 554 per 10,000 residents)More than 95% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (23%)More than 70% 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.

Homes by age

23% of Beaminster’s homes were built before 1919

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

23%

Before 1900

0.6%

1900–18

1.2%

1919–29

1930s

10%

1945–54

4.2%

1955–64

12%

1965–72

7.8%

1973–82

21%

1983–92

4.2%

1993–99

4.8%

2000–08

2009–15

4.8%

2016–25

BeaminsterEngland & Wales

23% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 21% 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 (20 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Born here

3 notable people born in Beaminster before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Thomas Sprat

James Shiner Bond

Theodore Robinson

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Thomas Sprat1635–1713 · English churchman and writer (1635–1713)

Theodore Robinson1866–1959 · Cricketer (1866-1959)

James Shiner Bond1858–1922 · Printer, newspaper owner, and mayor

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

Towns its size

Beaminster has the 96th most Grade I buildings of 1,219 towns its size

Places of 2,000–5,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Appleby-in-Westmorland6

Beaminster1

#31 of 1,219for listed buildings per resident (504 per 10,000). Painswick, Sandwich and Chipping Campden lead.

95 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Beaminster

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Beaminster	2,995	151	1	A⁺
Bradpole	1,257	9	0	C⁺
Misterton	1,037	14	0	B
Bridport	12,294	474	3	A⁺
Crewkerne	7,067	165	1	A
Merriott	2,068	58	0	A
Maiden Newton	1,128	20	1	A
Charmouth	1,337	35	0	A

In brief

Beaminster in brief

For its size, Beaminster has more listed heritage than 95% of UK towns. In all there are 151 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Mary. Of its homes, 23% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 95 of the 1,219 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

Hogshill Street alone has 17 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 76% are houses, terraces and villas.

Questions about Beaminster’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Beaminster?

Historic England lists 151 buildings inside Beaminster’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 10 Grade II* and 140 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Beaminster?

One: Church of St Mary.

Which street in Beaminster has the most listed buildings?

Hogshill Street (17), Fleet Street (15) and Church Street (10) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Beaminster?

1, covering about 37 hectares of the town. The largest is Beaminster.

When were Beaminster’s buildings listed?

The first in 1953; the most, 102, in 1983.

Who was born in Beaminster?

Among people born before 1900: Thomas Sprat (1635), Theodore Robinson (1866) and James Shiner Bond (1858).

How old are the homes in Beaminster?

23% of homes were built before 1919 and 27% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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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