396 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

Town HallGrade II* listedArchway, Formerly to Farm Hill ParkGrade II* listedThe Duke of York Public HouseGrade II listedLodgemoor MillsGrade II listedBridge CottageGrade II listed+12See all photos

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c. 1919

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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 396 entries, 102 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 45 entries were listed in 1951. 274 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 9 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.

22% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 13% 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 (107 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

John Canton

Edwin Beard Budding

William Carruthers Little

John Collins Bryant

Edward Gilling Hallewell

Benjamin Bucknall

Sir William Henry Marling, 2nd Bt.

Herbert Greenhough Smith

Arthur Croome

Sydney Howard Smith

Henry William Carless Davis

Winifred Coombe Tennant

John Maxwell Edmonds

Richard Godsell

George Holloway

Solomon Levy

Stephanie Grace Young

Eugene Paul Bennett

H. D. F. Kitto

F. W. Winterbotham

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John Canton1718–1772 · British physicist

Sydney Howard Smith1872–1947 · English badminton and tennis player (1872–1947)

EB

Edwin Beard Budding1795–1846 · Inventor of the lawnmower and adjustable spanner (1795–1846)

HK

H. D. F. Kitto1897–1982 · British classical scholar (1897–1982)

Herbert Greenhough Smith1855–1935 · British writer (1855–1935)

JE

John Maxwell Edmonds1875–1958 · English classicist, poet and dramatist (1875-1958)

F. W. Winterbotham1897–1990 · MI6 officer

HD

Henry William Carless Davis1874–1928 · British historian (1874–1928)

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

Old houses are part of Stroud’s character: 26% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 396 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I, including Selsley Church, King's Stanley. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 90% of UK towns. Only 47 of the 382 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

On High Street alone there are 19 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 7 conservation areas. Of the whole list, 73% are houses, terraces and villas.