IChurch · listed 1961Parish Church of St NicholasPhoto: BishopHerman · Public domain
Parish Church of St Nicholas · Photo: BishopHerman · Public domain–Not graded
History of Nether Compton · Historic England
Nether Compton: 45% of homes built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Nether Compton has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 24 buildings inside Nether Compton’s built-up area, 597 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
24
597 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
45%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Nether Compton’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
24 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*23 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 Nether Compton
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
Most of Nether Compton’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas18
Walls, gates & bridges3
Churches, chapels & priories1
Street furniture1
Public & civic buildings1
18 entries (75%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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
23 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 23 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn 20 Metres East of Lower Dairy FarmhouseBridge PlaceBrooksideBuckler's Farmhouse and Attached BarnFormer stable block 15 metres north of Lower FarmhouseGate Piers and Flanking Walls and Piers About 180 Metres South of the Old RectoryGate-Piers 40 Metres South-West of Memorial HallGateway and Walling of Congregational Burial Ground Opposite the Old ForgeHill CottageLower Dairy FarmhouseLower FarmhouseMiddle FarmhouseMiddle House and Attached StableStable Immediately West of the Griffin's HeadStavordale HouseThe Griffin's HeadThe Old Pump HouseThe Old RectoryThe Old SchoolThe Thatched HouseThe West HouseVine House1 and 2, The Green
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 44% of Nether Compton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Nether Compton15 ha
15 hain conservation areas, of 34 ha inside the built-up area.
21 of the 24 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 Nether Compton’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 131951 · 5
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 5 entries were listed in 1951. 13 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
45% of Nether Compton’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
45%
Before 1900
2.2%
1900–18
2.2%
1919–29
3.4%
1930s
8.4%
1945–54
6.1%
1955–64
6.1%
1965–72
8.4%
1973–82
8.4%
1983–92
4.5%
1993–99
2.2%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
3.4%
2016–25
Nether ComptonEngland & Wales
45% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 8.4% 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 (2 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Nether Compton
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nether Compton | 402 | 24 | 1 | — |
| Sherborne | 10,359 | 377 | 12 | A+ |
| Yeovil | 50,170 | 131 | 3 | B− |
| Barwick and Stoford | 1,095 | 15 | 0 | B |
| Milborne Port | 3,207 | 69 | 1 | A |
| Ilchester | 2,062 | 48 | 0 | B+ |
| Templecombe | 1,657 | 15 | 0 | B+ |
| Stoke sub Hamdon | 1,360 | 37 | 1 | A+ |
In brief
Nether Compton in brief
Old houses are part of Nether Compton’s character: 45% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 24 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 75%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1986, when 13 of the 24 went on the list.
Questions about Nether Compton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Nether Compton?
Historic England lists 24 buildings inside Nether Compton’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 23 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Nether Compton?
One: Parish Church of St Nicholas.
How many conservation areas are there in Nether Compton?
1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is Nether Compton.
When were Nether Compton’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 13, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Nether Compton?
45% of homes were built before 1919 and 50% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Nether Compton 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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