IChurch · listed 1960St Mary the Virgin, Gillingham, DorsetOn the list as Church of St MaryPhoto: John Barrett · CC BY-SA 2.0
Wyke Brewery · Photo: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 4.0B−History Grade
History of Gillingham · Historic England
41 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Gillingham’s built-up area, 37 for every 10,000 residents. 40 of Gillingham’s listed buildings are Grade II. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 12% of its homes were built before 1919. Gillingham grades B− for history: #18 of 30 in Dorset.
Listed buildings
41
37 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
12%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Gillingham in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St MaryGrade I listed
The Red LionGrade II listed
Town BridgeGrade II listed
Lock-UpGrade II listed
Vicarage School Room and The Parish OfficeGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos 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 Gillingham’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade I
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 6neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
41 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*40 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. 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).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Gillingham
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
The largest group of Gillingham’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas18
Churches, chapels & priories10
Inns, shops & warehouses6
Walls, gates & bridges5
Public & civic buildings1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
18 entries (44%) are houses, terraces and villas. 10 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
40 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 40 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Blackmore Vale HouseBrewery House and Front FenceBridge Carrying Wyke Street over the River StourBroadhayesChantry CottageChantry FordChurch CottageFormer National Westminster BankFormer VicarageKnapp HouseLaurel Cottage and No.1 Church CloseLime Tree HouseLittle ChantryLock-UpLodborne FarmhouseLodden Bridge FarmhouseMill HouseNo 1 (Church Home) and No 2Old Toll HousePark FarmhousePlank House and River GatePurns Mill HouseQueens Head and Queens Head CottageSpring CornerStone HouseStour HouseStour MotorsThe BartonThe LaurelsThe Phoenix HotelThe Red LionTown BridgeUnidentified Table Tomb 14 Metres South of Porch of St Mary's ChurchUnidentified Table Tomb 3M South of Chapel of St Mary's ChurchUnidentified Table Tomb 7 Metres South of Chancel of St Mary's ChurchVicarage School Room and The Parish OfficeWar MemorialWyke Brewery1 (Ivy Cottage) and 2, Church Walk5, High Street
Conservation areas
3 conservation areas cover 7.2% of Gillingham
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Wyke 201210 ha
Gillingham 19958 ha
Colesbrook 20176 ha
23 hain conservation areas, of 326 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Gillingham, was designated in 1995; the newest, Colesbrook, in 2017. 33 of the 41 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
19 of Gillingham’s 41 listed buildings were added in 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1985 · 191960 · 18
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 18 entries were listed in 1960, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 19 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Gillingham grades B− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (43 points, 39 per 10,000 residents)More than 59% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (12%)More than 34% 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.
Towns its size
Gillingham has the 103rd most Grade I buildings of 653 towns its size
Places of 7,000–18,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Gillingham1
#249 of 653for listed buildings per resident (37 per 10,000). Brecon, Malmesbury and Ludlow lead.
102 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Gillingham
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gillingham | 11,009 | 41 | 1 | B− |
| Motcombe | 1,366 | 19 | 0 | A− |
| Mere | 2,808 | 71 | 1 | A+ |
| Shaftesbury | 9,163 | 271 | 2 | A |
| Marnhull | 1,466 | 36 | 1 | A |
| Wincanton | 6,744 | 113 | 1 | A− |
| Templecombe | 1,657 | 15 | 0 | B+ |
| Henstridge | 1,579 | 16 | 0 | B+ |
In brief
Gillingham in brief
Gillingham has 41 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Mary the Virgin, Gillingham, Dorset. Only 102 of the 653 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1995. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Gillingham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Gillingham?
Historic England lists 41 buildings inside Gillingham’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 40 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Gillingham?
One: Church of St Mary.
How many conservation areas are there in Gillingham?
3, covering about 23 hectares of the town. The largest are Wyke and Gillingham.
When were Gillingham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1960; the most, 19, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Gillingham?
12% of homes were built before 1919 and 16% 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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