IChurch · listed 1960St Michael & All Angels ChurchOn the list as Church of St Michael and All AngelsPhoto: Tfennell (Tim Fennell) at en · Public domain
Cleeveway Hotel · Photo: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0C+History Grade
History of Bishop's Cleeve · Historic England
47 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Bishop's Cleeve’s built-up area, 29 for every 10,000 residents. 44 of Bishop's Cleeve’s listed buildings are Grade II. 2.9% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. Bishop's Cleeve grades C+ for history: #34 of 48 in Gloucestershire.
Listed buildings
47
29 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
2.9%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Bishop's Cleeve in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St Michael and All AngelsGrade I listed
Cleeve HallGrade II* listed
St Michael's CottageGrade II listed
23, Station RoadGrade II listed
Owl's EndGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos 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 Bishop's Cleeve’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 11neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
47 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I2 Grade II*44 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. 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).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Bishop's Cleeve
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 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Bishop's Cleeve
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed.
II*Public · listed 1960Cleeve HallPhoto: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1960The Manor Farmhouse (Two Occupations)
What’s protected
Most of Bishop's Cleeve’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas39
Churches, chapels & priories5
Public & civic buildings1
Inns, shops & warehouses1
Walls, gates & bridges1
39 entries (83%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 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
44 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 44 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn/Stable Circa 5 Metres South East of Yewtree FarmhouseBrook CottageChurch CottageCleeveway HotelCountess of Huntingdon's ChapelEversfieldFieldgate HouseGable EndGothic CottageGreyholmeHome FarmhouseJasmine CottageJohn Barnes Monument in the Churchyard of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Circa 45 Metres South of the South PorchKing's FarmhouseLaburnumLittle CroftLittle PriorsNewenauldNumber 18 Cleeveland CottageNumber 19 and the King's HeadNumber 20 Cleeveland CottageOld FarmhouseOwl's EndPear Tree CottagePigeon HousePoplar FarmhouseRose CottageRose CottageRose FarmhouseSt Michael's CottageThe CottageThe DovecoteThe GrangeThe Old CottageThe Old Thatched CottageThe Old Tithe Barn and Attached Boundary WallThe PrioryThe Royal OakThe WooltonsWillow CottageWoodbine CottageWoodmancote Farmhouse23, Station Road25, Station Road
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 2.2% of Bishop's Cleeve
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Woodmancote 19795 ha
Bishop's Cleeve 19794 ha
10 hain conservation areas, of 438 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Woodmancote and Bishop's Cleeve, were designated in 1979; the newest, Bishop's Cleeve, in 1979. 20 of the 47 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 Bishop's Cleeve’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1987 · 321960 · 14
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 14 entries were listed in 1960, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 32 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Bishop's Cleeve grades C+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (51 points, 31 per 10,000 residents)More than 59% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (2.9%)More than 5% of 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.
Homes by age
2.9% of Bishop's Cleeve’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
2.7%
Before 1900
0.2%
1900–18
0.5%
1919–29
1.1%
1930s
7.3%
1945–54
16%
1955–64
3.5%
1965–72
6.6%
1973–82
20%
1983–92
12%
1993–99
7%
2000–08
6.5%
2009–15
17%
2016–25
Bishop's CleeveEngland & Wales
2.7% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 20% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Bishop's Cleeve has the 103rd most Grade I buildings of 517 towns its size
Places of 10,000–26,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Bishop's Cleeve1
#218 of 517for listed buildings per resident (29 per 10,000). Ludlow, Bridport and Monmouth lead.
102 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bishop's Cleeve
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop's Cleeve | 16,323 | 47 | 1 | C+ |
| Gotherington | 1,131 | 17 | 0 | B |
| Prestbury | 4,078 | 66 | 0 | B+ |
| Cheltenham | 115,941 | 1,036 | 5 | A |
| Ashchurch | 1,102 | 5 | 0 | C− |
| Winchcombe | 4,339 | 178 | 1 | A+ |
| Tewkesbury | 14,387 | 366 | 7 | A |
| Northway | 4,858 | 2 | 0 | D− |
In brief
Bishop's Cleeve in brief
The official list counts 47 listed buildings in Bishop's Cleeve, 1 of them Grade I, including St Michael & All Angels Church. Only 102 of the 517 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1979. Most entries on the list, 83%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Its homes are mostly newer: 2.9% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1987, when 32 of the 47 went on the list. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Eleanor Catharine Price (1847) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Bishop's Cleeve’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bishop's Cleeve?
Historic England lists 47 buildings inside Bishop's Cleeve’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 44 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Bishop's Cleeve?
One: Church of St Michael and All Angels.
How many conservation areas are there in Bishop's Cleeve?
2, covering about 10 hectares of the town. The largest are Woodmancote and Bishop's Cleeve.
When were Bishop's Cleeve’s buildings listed?
The first in 1960; the most, 32, in 1987.
How old are the homes in Bishop's Cleeve?
2.9% of homes were built before 1919 and 4.4% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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