474 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Town HallGrade I listedThe Castle (Museum and Art Gallery)Grade II* listedPriory Works Including GatesGrade II listedGreyhound HotelGrade II listedThe HarbourGrade II listed+16See 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.

c. 1865

1903

1910s

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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).

South Street50 listed

East Street35 listed · 1 II*

West Street28 listed · 1 II*

North Allington20 listed · 1 II*

Barrack Street17 listed

West Allington17 listed · 1 II*

West Bay Road12 listed

Saint Andrew's Road11 listed

Seymour Place6 listed

South Mill Lane6 listed

St Michael's Lane6 listed

Rax Lane5 listed

Of the 474 entries, 261 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 54 entries were listed in 1950, 2 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 366 came in 1975, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

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.

25% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 12% 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 (58 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

James Miller

Samuel Stephens

William Hounsell

Frederick Weld

Pearkes Gundry

Charles William Bartlett

Alice Jane Green

Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham

Arthur Male

Irene Rooke

Bert Lee

Sir Philip Colfox, 1st Baronet

Frederick Stratten Russell

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Frederick Weld1823–1891 · New Zealand politician and governor of various British colonies (1823…

Charles William Bartlett1860–1940 · English painter and printmaker (1860-1940)

Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham1868–1947 · British politician (1868-1947)

Irene Rooke1878–1958 · British actress (1878-1958)

Bert Lee1879–1958 · English professional footballer (1879-1958)

FR

Frederick Stratten Russell1897–1984 · English marine biologist (1897-1984)

JM

James Miller1703–1744 · English playwright, poet, librettist, and minister

WH

William Hounsell1820–1903 · English cricketer (1820-1903)

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

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Bridport: per resident it has more than 97% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 474 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I, including Parish Church of St Mary. Its housing is old: 27% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 35 of the 604 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

South Street alone has 50 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1972. Most entries on the list, 71%, are houses, terraces and villas.