IChurch · listed 1955Church of St MichaelPhoto: Trish Steel · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Nigel Freeman · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Cheriton · Historic England
Old homes in Cheriton: 47% built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Cheriton has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 43 buildings inside Cheriton’s built-up area, 1,201 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
43
1,201 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
47%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Cheriton
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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.
The map
Where Cheriton’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
43 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*41 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.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Cheriton
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 Grade II* listed building in Cheriton
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
House · listed 1955The Old Rectory
What’s protected
Most of Cheriton’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas39
Walls, gates & bridges2
Churches, chapels & priories1
Inns, shops & warehouses1
39 entries (91%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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
41 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 41 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn 50 Metres North of the Old RectoryBarn 50 Metres South of MalthouseBeech CottageBrandy Mount CottageBridge CottageBrook CottageBrooksideBuilding Consisting of Colyton Cottage and Attached Part of Brook CottageBurnt PlattCheriton HouseEbenezeer CottageFiddlers CottageFlower Pots Public HouseGarden Wall 20 Metres South of the Old RectoryGardeners CottagesGodwins CottagesGranary 20 Metres South of Malthouse FarmhouseHolbrookKennets CottageKipping CottageL Shaped Barn Range 50 Metres East of North End FarmhouseLime Tree CottageMalthouse FarmhouseMeadow CottageNorth End CottageNorth End FarmhouseOld KennetsOld Post CottagePeartree CottagePeppercorn CottageQuince CottageRectory CottagesRillcotRose CottageShepherds CottageStable Block 25 Metres North East of North End FarmhouseStable Block 40 Metres North of the Old RectoryTeal HouseVine Cottages1 and 2, Brandy Mount4 Tombchests in St Michael's Churchyard South of South Porch to Col Hockley and to Mrs Hockley Further South to William Knight 1762 Griffin Grouch 1818
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 32% of Cheriton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Cheriton 19728 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 24 ha inside the built-up area.
26 of the 43 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 Cheriton’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1983 · 40
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 3 entries were listed in 1955, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 40 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 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.
1 registered battlefield
Homes by age
47% of Cheriton’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
40%
Before 1900
7.3%
1900–18
2%
1919–29
4%
1930s
6.6%
1945–54
8.6%
1955–64
6.6%
1965–72
3.3%
1973–82
3.3%
1983–92
6.6%
1993–99
4%
2000–08
7.3%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
CheritonEngland & Wales
40% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 8.6% 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 (2 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Cheriton
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheriton | 358 | 43 | 1 | — |
| New Alresford | 5,340 | 131 | 0 | A− |
| Kings Worthy | 4,631 | 27 | 1 | C+ |
| Four Marks | 5,613 | 1 | 0 | D− |
| Twyford | 1,482 | 53 | 0 | A+ |
| Winchester | 48,486 | 488 | 41 | A |
| Bishop's Waltham | 6,957 | 110 | 0 | A− |
| Colden Common | 3,827 | 11 | 0 | C |
In brief
Cheriton in brief
More of Cheriton’s homes are old than in most places: 47% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 43 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1972. Of the whole list, 91% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1983: 40 of 43.
Questions about Cheriton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Cheriton?
Historic England lists 43 buildings inside Cheriton’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 41 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Cheriton?
One: Church of St Michael.
How many conservation areas are there in Cheriton?
1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Cheriton.
When were Cheriton’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 40, in 1983.
How old are the homes in Cheriton?
47% of homes were built before 1919 and 54% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Cheriton has no History Grade.
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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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