83 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Town HallGrade II* listedRaglan HouseGrade II* listedTabernacle United Reformed ChurchGrade II listedBank House Old Bell HotelGrade II listedLloyds BankGrade II listed+2See 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.

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 83 entries, 43 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 23 entries were listed in 1952. 37 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

Edward Foxe

Dick King

Harold Freeman

Walter Rice, 7th Baron Dynevor

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EF

Edward Foxe1496–1538 · British bishop

Dick King1811–1871 · British businessman (1811-1871)

Walter Rice, 7th Baron Dynevor1873–1956 · British politician (1873-1956)

HF

Harold Freeman1850–1916 · English rugby union player (1850-1916)

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

Per resident, Dursley has more listed heritage than 79% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 83 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St James. Only 91 of the 757 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Long Street alone has 17 listed buildings.

Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1989. Of the whole list, 72% are houses, terraces and villas. Edward Foxe (1496), Dick King (1811) and Walter Rice, 7th Baron Dynevor (1873) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, 14% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.