IChurch · listed 1949St Michael's ChurchOn the list as Church of St MichaelPhoto: Lewis Hulbert · CC BY-SA 3.0
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History of Basingstoke · Historic England
86 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Basingstoke’s built-up area, 7.3 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 4 scheduled monuments. 3.6% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 9 of its listed buildings. Basingstoke grades C for history: #39 of 76 in Hampshire.
Listed buildings
86
7.3 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
5
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
4
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
3.6%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Basingstoke in 12 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Ruins of Chapel of the Holy GhostGrade II* listed
Deanes AlmshousesGrade II* listed
The Feathers Public HouseGrade II listed
Haymarket TheatreGrade II listed
Lesser MarketGrade II listed+7See 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.
Through time
Basingstoke in old photos and maps
An old map and 0 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1912Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where Basingstoke’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monumentPark or garden
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
1 of 73neighbourhoods 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.
86 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I5 Grade II*80 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. 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).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Basingstoke
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 5 Grade II* listed buildings in Basingstoke
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Church · listed 1949Ruins of Chapel of the Holy GhostPhoto: Sebastian Ballard · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Public · listed 1949Deanes AlmshousesPhoto: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Church · listed 1949Ruins of Chapel of the Holy TrinityPhoto: Portellophotography · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*Church · listed 1984St Thomas House (Chapel)Photo: Sebastian Ballard · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*House · listed 1949Worting HousePhoto: Alan Swain · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Basingstoke’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas53
Churches, chapels & priories14
Inns, shops & warehouses7
Public & civic buildings6
Street furniture3
Walls, gates & bridges2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
53 entries (62%) are houses, terraces and villas. 14 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
80 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 80 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
AshesBarn at Hatch Warren FarmBarn at Prewett FarmBarn, 20 Yards North-East of HouseBarn, 30 Yards North of HouseBasingstoke War MemorialBuildings at Rear of No 20 London Street South BlockBuildings at Rear of No 20, London Street North BlockCartshed East of BarnChineham Farm Cottage Chineham FarmhouseChineham HouseChurch CottageChurch Cottage HouseChurch of All SaintsChurch of St MaryChurch of St Thomas a BecketChurch of the Holy GhostChute HouseCompton CloseDaneshill CottageDaneshill HouseDaneshill Old LodgeDown GrangeEast Barn (Church Barn), 10 Yards North of the HouseEastlandsFlintz the Anchor InnFormer Barclays Bank, 81-83 Church StreetGolding HouseGranary, Next to the House, On the North SideHatch Warren FarmhouseHatchetts (With Attached Garden Wall)Haymarket TheatreHill Rise CottageHillsideHop Leaf Public HouseLesser MarketLodge, Entrance Gateway and Screen Walls of Chapel Hill Cemetery the Old Cemetery CottageLychpit FarmhouseMilestoneMilestone on A30/A303 at Approximately Ngr 606 495Milestone on A30/A303 at Ngr 597483Mountbatten House (formerly Gateway House), Basing ViewNational Westminster BankNorth Barn, 20 Yards North of the HouseOffice of Haskins LimitedOld Jay's FarmhouseOld Toll HousePopley Fields Farm, Barn North of HousePresbytery Attached to Church of the Holy GhostRazors FarmhouseService Block to Down GrangeSherfield HallSkippetts HouseSouthwood FarmhouseStable Block to Down GrangeStable Block to West of Worting HouseThe Feathers Public HouseThe Old RectoryThe Red Lion Public HouseThe Wheatsheaf Public HouseTown Hall, With Attached Drinking FountainUnited Reformed ChurchWest Barn, 20 Yards North-West of the HouseWhite Hart Public HouseWinton HouseWorting Farm1, 3 and 4, New Street1, Wote Street12 and 14, Cross Street12, Wote Street21, 21A and 21B, Winchester Road23, 25, 25A, London Street23, Winchester Road26 and 26A, London Street3, London Road33 and 35, Winchester Road36 and 36A, London Street405, Worting Road411, 413, 415 and 417, Worting Road5A, 5 and 7, Church Street
Conservation areas
7 conservation areas cover 3.6% of Basingstoke
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Fairfields 200424 ha
Basingstoke Town 197723 ha
Park Prewett 199818 ha
South View15 ha
Worting 198210 ha
Old Basing 19739 ha
Brookvale West 19999 ha
108 hain conservation areas, of 2,972 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Old Basing, was designated in 1973; the newest, Fairfields, in 2004. 57 of the 86 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 Basingstoke’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 491949 · 15
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The first 15 entries were listed in 1949, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 49 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
4 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.
1 registered park or garden
History Grade
Basingstoke grades C for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (102 points, 9 per 10,000 residents)More than 52% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (3.6%)More than 6% 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
3.6% of Basingstoke’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
2%
Before 1900
1.7%
1900–18
1.3%
1919–29
1.8%
1930s
3.1%
1945–54
7.9%
1955–64
20%
1965–72
16%
1973–82
13%
1983–92
5.9%
1993–99
11%
2000–08
7%
2009–15
9.1%
2016–25
BasingstokeEngland & Wales
2% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 20% 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 (54 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
9 notable people born in Basingstoke before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
John James
William Dicey
Thomas Warton
Christopher Sclater Millard
Keble Howard
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
Sid Castle
Thomas White
L. E. Timberlake
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Nora Stanton Blatch Barney1883–1971 · American civil engineer, architect and suffragist (1883–1971)
Thomas Warton1728–1790 · English literary historian, critic, poet (1728-1790)
Sid Castle1892–1978 · English footballer (1892-1978)
JJ
John James1673–1746 · British architect (c. 1673–1746)
TW
Thomas White1892–1979 · Sussex cricketer, born 1892 (1892–1979)
Keble Howard1875–1928 · English comic writer (1875-1928)
L. E. Timberlake1896–1973 · American politician
WD
William Dicey1690– · English newspaper proprietor, publisher, printseller and patent medic…
Everyone born in Basingstoke → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Basingstoke
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basingstoke | 117,211 | 86 | 1 | C |
| Old Basing | 3,834 | 61 | 2 | B+ |
| Oakley | 5,264 | 21 | 0 | C+ |
| Bramley | 4,730 | 18 | 1 | C |
| Sherfield on Loddon | 1,385 | 21 | 0 | B+ |
| Tadley | 14,767 | 11 | 0 | D |
| Hook | 9,062 | 20 | 0 | C |
| Odiham | 5,091 | 189 | 1 | A |
In brief
Basingstoke in brief
Basingstoke has 86 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Michael's Church. Its older streets lie in 7 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973. Most entries on the list, 62%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 9 people born here before 1900, the best known include Nora Stanton Blatch Barney (1883), Thomas Warton (1728) and Sid Castle (1892).
Its homes are mostly newer: 3.6% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1984, when 49 of the 86 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 3); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 4 scheduled monuments.
Questions about Basingstoke’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Basingstoke?
Historic England lists 86 buildings inside Basingstoke’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 5 Grade II* and 80 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Basingstoke?
One: Church of St Michael.
Are there scheduled monuments in Basingstoke?
Yes, 4 scheduled monuments, including Holy Ghost Chapel, Pyotts Hill entrenchment, Round barrow cemetery beside Seymour Road and Winklebury camp.
How many conservation areas are there in Basingstoke?
7, covering about 108 hectares of the town. The largest are Fairfields and Basingstoke Town.
When were Basingstoke’s buildings listed?
The first in 1949; the most, 49, in 1984.
Who was born in Basingstoke?
Among people born before 1900: Nora Stanton Blatch Barney (1883), Thomas Warton (1728), Sid Castle (1892), John James (1673) and Thomas White (1892).
How old are the homes in Basingstoke?
3.6% of homes were built before 1919 and 6.7% 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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