Corfe Castle and Greyhound Inn Dorset England

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History of Corfe Castle · Historic England

127 listed buildings, 5 of them Grade II*

Historic England counts them inside Corfe Castle’s built-up area, 1,427 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 41% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings.

5Grade II*1scheduled monument 28on East Street

Listed buildings

127

1,427 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

41%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Corfe Castle in 5 photos

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Furzeman's HouseGrade II* listed

Morton's House Including Attached Outbuildings and Front Boundary WallGrade II* listed

Parish Church of Saint EdwardGrade II* listed

The Old Town HallGrade II* listed

The Town HouseGrade II* listed

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 Corfe Castle’s history is

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

Grade II*Scheduled monument

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

127 listed buildings by grade

0 Grade I5 Grade II*122 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 5 Grade II* listed buildings in Corfe Castle

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

House · listed 1959Furzeman's HousePhoto: Jo and Steve Turner · CC BY-SA 2.0

Walls & gates · listed 1959Mortons House HotelOn the list as Morton's House Including Attached Outbuildings and Front Boundary WallPhoto: Bill Nicholls · CC BY-SA 2.0

Church · listed 1959Parish Church of Saint EdwardPhoto: Andrew Mathewson · CC BY-SA 2.0

Public · listed 1959The Old Town HallPhoto: Chris Downer · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1959The Town HousePhoto: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0

What’s protected

Most of Corfe Castle’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas90

Walls, gates & bridges13

Inns, shops & warehouses10

Public & civic buildings8

Churches, chapels & priories4

Street furniture1

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

90 entries (71%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 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

122 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 122 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Alpha Barn Immediately South of the Village Pound Bartholomews Boar Mill Boundary Wall and Entrance Gateway to Cemetery, Incorporating War Memorial Bridge Cottage Brook Cottage Brightside British Legion House Including Boundary Wall and Railings Building to the north of No. 17 East Street Castle Cottage Castle Tea Room and Garden Including Attached Outbuildings Challows Cottage Chapel Cottage Church Cottage Clealls Stores Cooper's Stores Corfe Castle Evangelical Congregational Church, including boundary railings on north.Corfe Castle Post Office Corfe Castle Railway Station Cotters Pound Cromwell Cottage Denderra Down End Cottage Drury's Including Pump at Rear Garden Wall Surrounding Herons, And Extending South Along the Rear of the Rectory Garden, North to the North Boundary of Thatch, And Running Along the North Side of Thatch's Garden (Ending at Garage)Garden Walls to East and South of Morton's House Hatchards Antiques Hollands Shop Jubilee House K6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Post Office, West Street Lytel Woning Messrs T R and P D Clews Shop and Store Including Attached Outbuildings Morton's Cottage Including Boundary Wall National Trust Shop No 116, Including Attached Outbuilding on Right No 162 Including Boundary Wall to Road No 164 Including Boundary Wall to Road No 166 Including Boundary Walls at Front and Side No 65 Including Attached Outbuilding on South Nos 40 and 42 Including Garden Wall South of No 42 Number 25 and Cooper's Shop Ottaway's Pottery Shop and Adjoining House Outbuilding Immediately South West of No 65 Penny Cottage Purbeck House Richard Taylor Monument, In the Churchyard, 16 Metres South of Chancel of the Parish Church of Saint Edward Rose Cottage and St George's Cottage Spinning Dale Stone Cott Including Front Boundary Walls Stone Lodge The Bankes Arms Hotel The Buron The Castle Inn The Fox Inn The Gift Shop and Lloyds Bank The Greyhound Inn The Knapp The Old Curatage The Old Forge The Old Saddlery The Village Pound Town House Annexe Village Cross, Including Pump Wall and Steps to Raised Pavement Adjoining the Gift Shop and Lloyds Bank, Extending Into East Street, A Total Length of 35 Metres Wayfaring Cottage, 47 West Street and, 49, West Street Westcott Wissett Cottage 10, West Street 102, East Street 106, West Street 108, East Street 112, East Street 114, East Street 118, East Street 12, West Street 13 and 15, West Street 14, East Street 15, East Street 158, East Street 160, East Street 17 and 19, West Street 18, East Street 20, West Street 21 and 23, West Street 22, West Street 27, East Street 28, West Street 29, 31 and 33, East Street 30 and 32A, West Street 32, West Street 33-35, West Street 35 and 37, East Street 37 and 39, West Street 39, East Street 4 and 6, East Street 4 and 6, West Street 41, West Street including attached outbuilding 48, West Street 48A, West Street 50 and 50A, West Street 51 East Street, including pump and boundary wall 52 West Street 62, East Street 64 and 66, East Street 67, West Street 69, East Street 72 and 74, East Street 73, East Street 73, West Street 75 and 77, East Street 76, East Street 78, East Street 8, East Street 82 and 84, East Street 87 and 89, West Street 9 and 11, West Street 90 West Street including attached outbuilding on left 90 and 92, East Street 92 West Street including attached outbuilding on right 94 and 96, East Street 94, 96 and 98, West Street 98 and 100, East Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 54% of Corfe Castle

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

Corfe Castle 197128 ha

28 hain conservation areas, of 51 ha inside the built-up area.

121 of the 127 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 Corfe Castle’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1959

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

1959 · 971986 · 27

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 97 entries were listed in 1959. 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.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Corfe Castle: a large enclosure castle, and 18th century Vineyard Bridge

Homes by age

41% of Corfe Castle’s homes were built before 1919

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

36%

Before 1900

4.1%

1900–18

3.1%

1919–29

7.2%

1930s

10%

1945–54

7.2%

1955–64

5.1%

1965–72

9.2%

1973–82

8.2%

1983–92

3.1%

1993–99

3.1%

2000–08

2009–15

3.1%

2016–25

Corfe CastleEngland & Wales

36% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 10% 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 (21 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Corfe Castle

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Corfe Castle	890	127	0	—
Swanage	9,115	146	0	A
Wareham	5,876	189	4	A
Sandford	2,004	3	0	D
Upton	8,401	4	0	D⁻
Poole	141,009	214	3	B⁻
Wool	5,044	39	0	B⁻
Lytchett Matravers	3,455	9	0	C

In brief

Corfe Castle in brief

Old houses are part of Corfe Castle’s character: 41% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 127 listed buildings. East Street alone has 28 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1971.

Of the whole list, 71% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1959: 97 of 127. Beyond that, it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Corfe Castle’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Corfe Castle?

Historic England lists 127 buildings inside Corfe Castle’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 5 Grade II* and 122 Grade II.

Are there scheduled monuments in Corfe Castle?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Corfe Castle: a large enclosure castle, and 18th century Vineyard Bridge.

How many conservation areas are there in Corfe Castle?

1, covering about 28 hectares of the town. The largest is Corfe Castle.

When were Corfe Castle’s buildings listed?

The first in 1959; the most, 97, in 1959.

How old are the homes in Corfe Castle?

41% of homes were built before 1919 and 52% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Corfe Castle has no History Grade.

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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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