571 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Gloucester Lodge with the Cork and Bottle Public HouseGrade II* listedBelfield HouseGrade II* listedWarehouseGrade II listedRafa ClubGrade II listedOld Harbour HouseGrade II listed+26See all photos

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.

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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).

Of the 571 entries, 241 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Search the rest on Historic England’s list →

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.

The first 80 entries were listed in 1953, 3 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 303 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 have been added in the last 15 years.

World Heritage

4 scheduled monuments

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

Humpty Dumpty Field, Radipole

MedievalMulti-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields

RomanPreston Roman villa

RomanRomano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill

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.

21% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 12% 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 (221 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

James Thornhill

Margaret Saunders

Mariot Arbuthnot

Joseph Spear

Thomas Love Peacock

William Allen

Robert Damon

Mary Caroline Gray

Henry Kearney Boldero

George Talbot

Francis Marindin

Henry Scherren

John J. Jenkins

Harry Collingwood

Mary Pope (vegetarian)

Charles Coote

Theodore Stephenson

Frederick Rutland

Henry Moseley

George Symons

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Henry Moseley1887–1915 · English physicist

Thomas Love Peacock1785–1866 · English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company (1785–…

James Thornhill1675–1734 · British painter (1675-1734)

Mariot Arbuthnot1711–1794 · British admiral (1711-1794)

Francis Marindin1838–1900 · English footballer, and British Army officer (1838-1900)

William Allen1792–1864 · British Royal Navy officer (1792-1864)

Theodore Stephenson1856–1928 · British Army general (1856–1928)

George Symons1888–1950 · RMS Titanic survivor

Everyone born in Weymouth → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Old houses are part of Weymouth’s character: 24% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 571 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I, including Church of All Saints. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 86% of UK towns. Only 31 of the 201 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

On St Thomas Street alone there are 25 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 11 conservation areas, the first designated in 1972. Of the whole list, 70% are houses, terraces and villas. Beyond that, it also has 4 scheduled monuments.