IChurch · listed 1960Church of St MaryPhoto: Trish Steel · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Iwerne Minster · Historic England
Old homes in Iwerne Minster: 46% built before 1919
For Iwerne Minster, that is 3 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Historic England lists 39 buildings inside Iwerne Minster’s built-up area, 418 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
39
418 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
46%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Iwerne Minster
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 Iwerne Minster’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
39 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*37 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 Iwerne Minster
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.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Iwerne Minster
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Church · listed 1960The ChantryPhoto: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Iwerne Minster’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas24
Public & civic buildings5
Churches, chapels & priories3
Street furniture3
Inns, shops & warehouses2
Walls, gates & bridges1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
24 entries (62%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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
37 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 37 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Abingdon Memorial HallApple Tree, Yew Tree and Sunny HolmApplegarth and Tymps CottageApproximately 25M of Churchyard Wall to the West and South of St Mary's ChurchBow Cottage and Hill ViewBowhayBreken CottageBrook CottageBrookman's FarmhouseChurch View and the CottageClayesmore SchoolCow Parsley Cottage and Sparrow CottageDevine HouseDwell Deep and Dip WellHeddle HouseHome Farm Barn.Iwerne LodgeK6 Telephone KioskNoel CottageOak HousePair of Cottages Approximately 5 M East of SunnysidePreston HousePrimary SchoolPump Approximately 5M South of TillhayesRidgeway Cottage and Miles CottageRolls Cottage and KwetuSpring CottageStable Court Approximately 175M South-East of Clayesmore SchoolSunnyside CottageSunnyside and Attached ShopTalbot ArmsThe Memorial CrossThe Old CottageThe War OfficeTillhaysVillage Pump and Pumphouse1-4, Church Path
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 37% of Iwerne Minster
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Iwerne Minster 197625 ha
25 hain conservation areas, of 66 ha inside the built-up area.
34 of the 39 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 Iwerne Minster’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1985 · 231960 · 14
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The first 14 entries were listed in 1960, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 23 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
46% of Iwerne Minster’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
44%
Before 1900
1.6%
1900–18
1.6%
1919–29
1.6%
1930s
5%
1945–54
5%
1955–64
5%
1965–72
15%
1973–82
1.6%
1983–92
3.4%
1993–99
10%
2000–08
1.6%
2009–15
5%
2016–25
Iwerne MinsterEngland & Wales
44% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 15% 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 (19 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Iwerne Minster
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iwerne Minster | 934 | 39 | 1 | — |
| Child Okeford | 1,159 | 18 | 0 | A− |
| Shillingstone | 1,165 | 23 | 1 | A− |
| Sturminster Newton | 3,565 | 98 | 1 | A |
| Blandford Forum | 11,805 | 212 | 8 | A |
| Pimperne | 2,770 | 10 | 0 | B |
| Shaftesbury | 9,163 | 271 | 2 | A |
| Marnhull | 1,466 | 36 | 1 | A |
In brief
Iwerne Minster in brief
More of Iwerne Minster’s homes are old than in most places: 46% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 39 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976.
Most entries on the list, 62%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1985, when 23 of the 39 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: James Charles Dale (1791) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Iwerne Minster’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Iwerne Minster?
Historic England lists 39 buildings inside Iwerne Minster’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 37 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Iwerne Minster?
One: Church of St Mary.
How many conservation areas are there in Iwerne Minster?
1, covering about 25 hectares of the town. The largest is Iwerne Minster.
When were Iwerne Minster’s buildings listed?
The first in 1960; the most, 23, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Iwerne Minster?
46% of homes were built before 1919 and 49% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Iwerne Minster 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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