II*Inns & shops · listed 1952Queen's Armes HotelPhoto: Robin Lucas · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Charmouth · Historic England
35 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Charmouth’s built-up area, 262 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Charmouth, 34 are Grade II. 26% of its homes were built before 1919. Charmouth grades A for history.
Listed buildings
35
262 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
26%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Charmouth
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 Charmouth’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
35 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*34 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 II*
The Grade II* listed building in Charmouth
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Charmouth’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas22
Street furniture4
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Churches, chapels & priories2
Walls, gates & bridges2
Public & civic buildings1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
22 entries (63%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories.
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
34 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 34 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Arcadia, with front garden railingsBadgers Badgers and Foxley Cottage Foxley CottageBeech HouseBow HouseCarram HouseCharmouth House HotelCharmouth LodgeCharmouth Parish Church (St Andrew)Churchyard Wall 15 Metres North of the Church and Gate PiersCoach house and stable 10 metres north of ArcadiaCongregational ChapelGrange HouseHill ViewHillside with Front Garden RailingsLittle Hurst and Attached Coach HouseLittlecoteMonk's RestPrimrose CottageStow HouseThatched CottageThe Cottage and Front Area RailingsThe Court Hotel and Attached RailingsThe George HotelThe LilacsThe Lookout at Sy 36409305The Manor HouseThe Old Rectory with Attached Coach House to NorthThe Royal OakThe Stone House and Front Area RailingsThe White HouseToll House, 100 Metres East of Charmouth Bridge. on A35War MemorialWinton House5 Table Tombs Circa 5 Metres North of Church
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 23% of Charmouth
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Charmouth17 ha
17 hain conservation areas, of 75 ha inside the built-up area.
33 of the 35 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 Charmouth’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 221960 · 8
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1952. 22 came in 1984, 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.
World Heritage
| Dorset and East Devon CoastUNESCO World Heritage Site: the town touches its mapped area, which can include a buffer zone |
History Grade
Charmouth 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 (36 points, 269 per 10,000 residents)More than 79% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (26%)More than 77% 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
26% of Charmouth’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
25%
Before 1900
1.9%
1900–18
2.9%
1919–29
7.6%
1930s
5.7%
1945–54
5.7%
1955–64
12%
1965–72
9.5%
1973–82
7.6%
1983–92
14%
1993–99
3.9%
2000–08
1.9%
2009–15
1.9%
2016–25
CharmouthEngland & Wales
25% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1993–99, which added 14% 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 (8 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Charmouth
In brief
Charmouth in brief
More of Charmouth’s homes are old than in most places: 26% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 35 listed buildings. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 79% of UK towns. A conservation area protects part of it.
Most entries on the list, 63%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1984, when 22 of the 35 went on the list. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building.
Questions about Charmouth’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Charmouth?
Historic England lists 35 buildings inside Charmouth’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 34 Grade II.
Is Charmouth a World Heritage Site?
Part of Charmouth lies within the area Historic England maps for Dorset and East Devon Coast, which can include a buffer zone around the site itself.
How many conservation areas are there in Charmouth?
1, covering about 17 hectares of the town. The largest is Charmouth.
When were Charmouth’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 22, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Charmouth?
26% of homes were built before 1919 and 37% 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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