IChurch · listed 1959Parish Church of Saint NicholasPhoto: Wulfrunian1 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Parish Church of Saint Nicholas · Photo: Wulfrunian1 · CC BY-SA 3.0–Not graded
History of Worth Matravers · Historic England
20 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Worth Matravers’s built-up area, 769 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Worth Matravers, 19 are Grade II. 27% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
20
769 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
27%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Worth Matravers’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.
20 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*19 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 Worth Matravers
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 Worth Matravers’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas12
Walls, gates & bridges4
Churches, chapels & priories3
Public & civic buildings1
12 entries (60%) 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
19 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 19 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barton Cottage and Rose CottageBoundary Wall and Gatepiers to Churchyard, Church of St NicholasBoundary Walls to West, South and East of Worth House, Including Gazebo in South-West CornerChurch CottageGullivers, Including Attached Outbuildings at RearHill ViewHoneysuckle CottageIvy CottageLobster CottageLondon RowPond ViewStone Coffin in the Churchyard Immediately East of the Gates to the Church of St NicholasStone HouseStoneleigh, Including Front Boundary WallsThe Square and CompassTwo Headstones to Benjamin and Elizabeth Jesty. 12 M North of Church of Saint NicholasWorth Farmhouse and Worth CottageWorth HouseWorth Matravers Post Office and Village Store
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 21% of Worth Matravers
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Worth Matravers 19754 ha
4 hain conservation areas, of 21 ha inside the built-up area.
18 of the 20 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 Worth Matravers’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 131959 · 7
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The first 7 entries were listed in 1959, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 13 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
27% of Worth Matravers’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
24%
Before 1900
1.9%
1900–18
3.2%
1919–29
7.7%
1930s
9.7%
1945–54
9.7%
1955–64
5.2%
1965–72
6.5%
1973–82
9.7%
1983–92
6.5%
1993–99
3.2%
2000–08
5.2%
2009–15
7.7%
2016–25
Worth MatraversEngland & Wales
24% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 9.7% 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 (7 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Worth Matravers
In brief
Worth Matravers in brief
More of Worth Matravers’s homes are old than in most places: 27% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 20 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1975. Most entries on the list, 60%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1984, when 13 of the 20 went on the list.
Questions about Worth Matravers’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Worth Matravers?
Historic England lists 20 buildings inside Worth Matravers’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 19 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Worth Matravers?
One: Parish Church of Saint Nicholas.
How many conservation areas are there in Worth Matravers?
1, covering about 4 hectares of the town. The largest is Worth Matravers.
When were Worth Matravers’s buildings listed?
The first in 1959; the most, 13, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Worth Matravers?
27% of homes were built before 1919 and 38% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Worth Matravers 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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