Photo: ChurchCrawler · CC BY-SA 2.06 listed buildings
On the Cadw list, all of them stand inside St Arvans’s built-up area, 85 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 39% of its homes were built before 1919.
Where St Arvans’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
6 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 6 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 33% of St Arvans
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
5 of the 6 listed buildings stand in one.
Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Welsh Government (Cadw).
39% of St Arvans’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
35% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around St Arvans
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Arvans | 704 | 6 | 0 | — |
| Tutshill and Sedbury | 3,618 | 16 | 0 | C+ |
| Chepstow | 11,939 | 197 | 3 | A− |
| Beachley | 1,120 | 5 | 0 | C− |
| Caer-went | 1,523 | 18 | 0 | A− |
| Portskewett | 1,627 | 9 | 1 | B |
| Caldicot | 9,813 | 10 | 1 | C− |
| Rogiet | 1,791 | 4 | 0 | C− |
St Arvans in brief
More of St Arvans’s homes are old than in most places: 39% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 6 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976. The rest is about typical: the list grew between 1991 and 2001; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about St Arvans’s history
How many listed buildings are there in St Arvans?
Cadw lists 6 buildings inside St Arvans’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 6 Grade II.
Are there scheduled monuments in St Arvans?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including St Arvan's Church Cross-slab.
How many conservation areas are there in St Arvans?
1, covering about 9 hectares of the town. The largest is St Arvans.
How old are the homes in St Arvans?
39% of homes were built before 1919 and 44% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
St Arvans has no History Grade.
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and historic parks and gardens: Cadw, © Crown copyright, via DataMapWales.
Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, 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 · Cadw conservation areas via DataMapWales (October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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