IWalls & gates · listed 1985Church of Our Lady of the AnnunciationOn the list as Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation, boundary walls and railingsPhoto: ChurchCrawler · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bannut Tree Chapel · Photo: OrangeStarling1997 · CC BY-SA 4.0A+History Grade
History of Nailsworth · Historic England
136 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Nailsworth’s built-up area, 240 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Nailsworth, 124 are Grade II. 27% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 8 of its listed buildings. Nailsworth grades A+ for history: #4 of 48 in Gloucestershire.
Listed buildings
136
240 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
11
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
27%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Nailsworth in 8 photos
Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Egypt MillGrade II* listed
Stokes CroftGrade II* listed
Britannia InnGrade II listed
Church of St GeorgeGrade II listed
Nailsworth War Memorial Clock TowerGrade II listed+3See 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 Nailsworth’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
1 of 4neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 55% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
136 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I11 Grade II*124 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 Nailsworth
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 11 Grade II* listed buildings in Nailsworth
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 4 are photographed.
II*Inns & shops · listed 1980Egypt MillPhoto: Bob Tinley · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Church · listed 1951Bannut Tree ChapelPhoto: OrangeStarling1997 · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*House · listed 1951Stokes CroftPhoto: OrangeStarling1997 · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*Walls & gates · listed 1951Friends Meeting HouseOn the list as Nailsworth Quaker Meeting House and attached boundary walls and gatewayPhoto: OrangeStarling1997 · CC BY-SA 4.0
House · listed 1951Bannut Tree House
House · listed 1951Dunkirk Manor
House · listed 1980Egypt House
House · listed 1977L Shaped Range of Buildings to Dunkirk Mills
Public · listed 1951Spring Hill Court
House · listed 1951Spring Hill House
House · listed 1979The Oaklands Farmhouse
What’s protected
Most of Nailsworth’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas90
Inns, shops & warehouses16
Walls, gates & bridges12
Memorials, crosses & tombs6
Churches, chapels & priories5
Public & civic buildings5
Street furniture2
90 entries (66%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 are churches, chapels and priories.
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
124 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 124 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Approximately 80 Yards of Garden Wall to South West of the Deverells Running to South East from Corner with Fewster RoadAshlar House Valley ViewAvening CottageBarn CloseBazaarBerwyn HeimatBotley CottageBoundary Wall and Spring Head to High Beeches Fronting RoadBritannia InnCalder CottageChest Tomb in Cemetery About 10 to 15 Yards West of EntranceChesterhill HouseChestnut Hill HouseChimney at Holcombe MillChrist Church (Baptist Methodist United Reform Church)Church of All SaintsChurch of St GeorgeClematis CottageCorner Cottage, Barn CloseCottage Immediately to West of Egypt MillCottage Occupied by Mrs Creed Isthmus Lock CottageCottage at Hilliers Bacon Curing Company LimitedCourt HouseDamery HouseDauncey and the Laurels, Wall and Archway to South Fronting Watledge Road and Turning Into Station RoadDunkirk Manor Cottage and Attached BarnEvergreen CottageFairview HouseField View and Adjoining Cottage Occupied by Mr SmartFinchs FieldForecourt Walls, Gate Piers and Gates to Numbers 1, 2, And 3 Brook VillasGlendale Holcombe HouseGlendower and Railings to FrontGlenholmHencotesHigh BeechesHill ViewHillcrestHillside, Jasmine and Adjoining Pair of CottagesHouse to South East of the CottageInchbrook HouseInglenook Main Building of Premises of Albert Rigby LimitedKaringalLaburnam CottageLaurel CottageLondon HouseMerton CottagesMill Adjoining Oaklands Farmhouse to SouthMill House at North West End of Workshops at Holcombe MillMillbottom MillMillbrook HouseMilton Rill CottageMyrtle CottageNailsworth Railway Station HouseNailsworth War Memorial Clock TowerNailsworth War Memorial CrossNewmans Wool Warehouse the Wool LoftNumber 1 Brook Villas and Adjoining WorkshopNumber 6 (Northfields) and Garden RailingsNumbers 1, 2 and Bank Side (Number 3) MillbottomNumbers 2 and 3 Brook VillasOffice Building at Merrett's Mill (Cameron Gardner Ltd)Old Barn Close, Gate Piers and Railings to South WestOrnamental Garden Feature with Seat to South of Bannut Tree ChapelOutbuilding to North West of Spring Hill CourtParkhill Cottage and CornerwaysParkview WoodsidePavilion immediately to north east of Dunkirk ManorPear Tree Cottage and Adjoining Stable to RearPenetecot and Copsewold CottagePensile HousePorch at Merrett's Mill (Cameron Gardner Ltd)Porthole Cottage and Former Machine ShopPremises Occupied by Lc Noble Weavers CottagePremises of Winterbotham Ball and Gadsen Solicitors and the Stroud Building SocietyPud HillQuoin CottageRadnor CottageRailway HotelRetaining Walls, Garden Walls and Gate Piers to Dunkirk Manor Fronting RoadRosariSable CottageSpring Hill CottageStephana and CornerwaysStone Built Block at Days Mill to Rear of Fountain Street FrontageStone CottageTalaton Moor the Carpet ShopThe CottageThe DeverellsThe FountainThe GablesThe GablesThe GazardsThe Haywain, Barn CloseThe Lot House and Garden GateThe MaltingsThe ManseThe MooringsThe MountThe MountThe NodesThe Old Shop Adjoining the SteppesThe Old VicarageThe RetreatThe ShearsThe SteppsThe SurgeryThree GablesUplandsUpper HouseWalkleywood CottagesWall (Approximately 75 Yards Long), Archway, Door and Gatepiers to Upper House Fronting RoadWatledge House, Gate Piers and Approximately 30 Yards of Wall to South East of House Fronting RoadWayside CottageWhite Croft Drinking FountainWhitehallWinslow HouseWinslow LodgeWorkshops to West of Chimney Shaft at Holcombe Mill1 and 2, QUAKERS CLOSE1-5, Old Bristol Road28, George Street3, Hayes Road4, George Street
Conservation areas
3 conservation areas cover 22% of Nailsworth
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Dunkirk and Watledge20 ha
Stroud Industrial Heritage20 ha
Nailsworth15 ha
55 hain conservation areas, of 251 ha inside the built-up area.
94 of the 136 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 Nailsworth’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1980
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1980 · 911951 · 29
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 29 entries were listed in 1951. 91 came in 1980, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Nailsworth grades A+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (149 points, 263 per 10,000 residents)More than 91% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (27%)More than 78% 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
27% of Nailsworth’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
25%
Before 1900
1.5%
1900–18
2.6%
1919–29
3.3%
1930s
5.4%
1945–54
7.6%
1955–64
13%
1965–72
11%
1973–82
7.1%
1983–92
4.8%
1993–99
14%
2000–08
2.2%
2009–15
1.6%
2016–25
NailsworthEngland & Wales
25% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2000–08, which added 14% 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 (25 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Nailsworth has the 88th most Grade I buildings of 910 towns its size
Places of 3,000–9,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Nailsworth1
#60 of 910for listed buildings per resident (240 per 10,000). Sandwich, Tenby and Brecon lead.
87 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Nailsworth
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nailsworth | 5,657 | 136 | 1 | A+ |
| Amberley | 1,300 | 31 | 0 | A |
| Minchinhampton | 3,412 | 110 | 1 | A+ |
| Brimscombe and Thrupp | 2,187 | 34 | 0 | A |
| Avening | 1,054 | 31 | 1 | A |
| Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley | 3,584 | 54 | 3 | A |
| Stroud | 26,073 | 396 | 2 | A |
| Chalford | 6,665 | 113 | 0 | A |
In brief
Nailsworth in brief
Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Nailsworth: per resident it has more than 91% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 136 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Egypt Mill. Its housing is old: 27% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 87 of the 910 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.
Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas. Most entries on the list, 66%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1980, when 91 of the 136 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Joseph Edkins (1823) and James Norton Smith (1846) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Nailsworth’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Nailsworth?
Historic England lists 136 buildings inside Nailsworth’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 11 Grade II* and 124 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Nailsworth?
One: Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation, boundary walls and railings.
How many conservation areas are there in Nailsworth?
3, covering about 55 hectares of the town. The largest are Dunkirk and Watledge and Stroud Industrial Heritage.
When were Nailsworth’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 91, in 1980.
How old are the homes in Nailsworth?
27% of homes were built before 1919 and 33% 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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