89 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

GuildhallGrade II* listedThe Angel InnGrade II* listedPollen's AlmshousesGrade II listedRooksbury MillGrade II listedSavoy ChambersGrade II listed+4See 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.

c. 1909

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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 89 entries, 38 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 24 entries were listed in 1950, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 56 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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.

3.2% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 15% 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 (53 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

James Paine

Lord William Paulet

Charles Herbert Joyce

Charles Baron Clarke

George John Bennett

Thelwell Pike

Cyril Richards

Percy Hambro

William Ponting

Bruce Lamb

Bill Rawlings

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Charles Baron Clarke1832–1906 · British botanist (1832-1906)

James Paine1717–1789 · British architect; (1717-1789)

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Bill Rawlings1896–1972 · English footballer (1896-1972)

Charles Herbert Joyce1830–1916 · Union Army officer (1830-1916)

Lord William Paulet1804–1893 · British Field Marshal (1804–1893)

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Thelwell Pike1866–1957 · English footballer (1866-1957)

GB

George John Bennett1863–1930 · Organist (1863-1930)

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Cyril Richards1870–1933 · English cricketer (1870-1933)

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

The official list counts 89 listed buildings in Andover, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Michael and All Angels. High Street alone has 14 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969. Of the whole list, 62% are houses, terraces and villas.

Charles Baron Clarke (1832), James Paine (1717) and Bill Rawlings (1896) are among the 11 people born here before 1900. Its homes are mostly newer: 5.3% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1983: 56 of 89. The rest is about typical: it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.