IChurch · listed 1959Parish Church of St John the BaptistPhoto: Chris Downer · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Bere Regis · Historic England
42 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Bere Regis’s built-up area, 318 for every 10,000 residents. 41 of Bere Regis’s listed buildings are Grade II. 23% of its homes were built before 1919. Bere Regis grades A for history.
Listed buildings
42
318 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
23%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Bere Regis
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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 Bere Regis’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.
42 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*41 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 Bere Regis
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.
What’s protected
Most of Bere Regis’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas31
Walls, gates & bridges4
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Public & civic buildings2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Churches, chapels & priories1
31 entries (74%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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
41 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 41 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Apple GarthBarn, Attached on South to Stables North-West of Shitterton Farm HouseBere Regis War MemorialBoundary Wall Attached to No 18, On EastBoundary Wall and Summer House, Adjoining Shitterton House, On WestCentral StoresDairy CottageHoneycombe CottageManor Farm HouseNo 12, ShittertonNo 17, ShittertonNo 26 (The Cedars,) Including Attached Boundary Walls on North WestNo 3, Including Boundary Wall to EastNo 4, ShittertonNo 91 and Adjoining ShopNos 85A (Post Office) and 85 (Jeeves, Butchers)Shitterton Farm HouseStables 20 Metres North West of Shitterton Farm HouseThe AcornThe BowerThe Drax Arms, Including the Attached Stable at RearThe Old School HouseThe Royal Oak Inn, Including Attached Stable Range on SouthTownsend Farm HouseWoodbury Cottage104 and 105, North Street14, North Street16, Blind Street17, North Street34, West Street40, West Street59 and 60, West Street6 and 7, North Street67, Butt Lane72, West Street75, West Street8, North Street83, West Street87, West Street89, West Street90, West Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 39% of Bere Regis
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Bere Regis 198120 ha
20 hain conservation areas, of 50 ha inside the built-up area.
41 of the 42 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
21 of Bere Regis’s 42 listed buildings were added in 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 211959 · 16
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The first 16 entries were listed in 1959, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 21 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Bere Regis 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 (44 points, 333 per 10,000 residents)More than 82% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (23%)More than 69% 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 Bere Regis’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
22%
Before 1900
1.1%
1900–18
3.3%
1919–29
1.1%
1930s
8.9%
1945–54
5.6%
1955–64
6.7%
1965–72
22%
1973–82
17%
1983–92
5.6%
1993–99
4.4%
2000–08
2.3%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
Bere RegisEngland & Wales
22% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 22% 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 (14 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Bere Regis has the 89th most Grade I buildings of 1,873 towns its size
Places of 1,000–2,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Bere Regis1
#245 of 1,873for listed buildings per resident (318 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.
88 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bere Regis
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bere Regis | 1,320 | 42 | 1 | A |
| Milborne St Andrew | 1,090 | 18 | 0 | B |
| Wool | 5,044 | 39 | 0 | B− |
| Puddletown | 1,193 | 43 | 1 | A |
| Wareham | 5,876 | 189 | 4 | A |
| Crossways | 2,494 | 0 | 0 | D |
| Lytchett Matravers | 3,455 | 9 | 0 | C |
| Sandford | 2,004 | 3 | 0 | D |
In brief
Bere Regis in brief
More of Bere Regis’s homes are old than in most places: 23% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 42 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 82% of UK towns. Only 88 of the 1,873 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.
West Street alone has 9 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1981. Of the whole list, 74% are houses, terraces and villas.
Questions about Bere Regis’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bere Regis?
Historic England lists 42 buildings inside Bere Regis’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 41 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Bere Regis?
One: Parish Church of St John the Baptist.
How many conservation areas are there in Bere Regis?
1, covering about 20 hectares of the town. The largest is Bere Regis.
When were Bere Regis’s buildings listed?
The first in 1959; the most, 21, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Bere Regis?
23% of homes were built before 1919 and 28% 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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