178 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St PeterGrade I listedWinchcombe AbbeyScheduled monumentGeorge InnGrade II listedTown HallGrade II listedJacobean HouseGrade II listed+1See 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.

Of the 178 entries, 79 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Search the rest on Historic England’s list →

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 82 entries were listed in 1960, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 88 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

RomanRomano-British villa 170m south west of Winchcombe School, Greet Road

Winchcombe Abbey

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.

24% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 16% 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.

Clement Barksdale

Christopher Merrett

George Backhouse Witts

Edward Griffiths

William Yiend

John Alfred Valentine Butler

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Christopher Merrett1614–1695 · English physician and scientist, first to describe sparkling wine pro…

JB

John Alfred Valentine Butler1899–1977 · British chemist

EG

Edward Griffiths1862–1893 · Cricketer (1862-1893)

CB

Clement Barksdale1609–1687 · 17th-century English writer

George Backhouse Witts1846–1912 · British civil engineer and archaeologist (1856-1912)

WY

William Yiend1865–1939 · English rugby union player

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

For its size, Winchcombe has more listed heritage than 95% of UK towns. In all there are 178 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Peter. Of its homes, 25% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 87 of the 991 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

On Gloucester Street alone there are 35 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1971. Most entries on the list, 76%, are houses, terraces and villas. The rest is about typical: it also has 2 scheduled monuments.