Photo: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0Old homes in New Quay: 48% built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: New Quay has 3 times the share. Cadw lists 89 buildings inside New Quay’s built-up area, 851 for every 10,000 residents. New Quay grades A+ for history.
Where New Quay’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
The High Terrace and Lewis Terrace have the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Of the 89 entries, 25 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
Most of New Quay’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
79 entries (89%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 are churches, chapels and priories.
Buildings are sorted by Cadw’s broad class for each building, else by words in its name; an entry named only by its address counts as a house.
89 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 89 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 10% of New Quay
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
81 of the 89 listed buildings stand in one.
Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
More than half of New Quay’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1994
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 5 entries were listed in 1961. 81 came in 1994. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
New Quay grades A+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
48% of New Quay’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
46% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2000–08, which added 9.2% 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 (3 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
4 notable people born in New Quay before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in New Quay → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Listed buildings in the places around New Quay
New Quay in brief
For its size, New Quay has more listed heritage than 92% of UK towns. In all there are 89 listed buildings. Of its homes, 48% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969.
Of the whole list, 89% are houses, terraces and villas. Josiah Towyn Jones (1858), Margaret Jane Gordon (1880) and Dewi Emrys (1881) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1994: 81 of 89.
Questions about New Quay’s history
How many listed buildings are there in New Quay?
Cadw lists 89 buildings inside New Quay’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 89 Grade II.
Which street in New Quay has the most listed buildings?
High Terrace (5), Lewis Terrace (5) and Rock Street (5) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
How many conservation areas are there in New Quay?
1, covering about 10 hectares of the town. The largest is New Quay.
When were New Quay’s buildings listed?
The first in 1961; the most, 81, in 1994.
Who was born in New Quay?
Among people born before 1900: Josiah Towyn Jones (1858), Margaret Jane Gordon (1880), Dewi Emrys (1881) and Florrie Evans (1884).
How old are the homes in New Quay?
48% of homes were built before 1919 and 51% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and historic parks and gardens: Cadw, © Crown copyright, via DataMapWales.
Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, 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 · Cadw conservation areas via DataMapWales (October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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