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History of Emsworth · Historic England

92 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

Historic England counts them inside Emsworth’s built-up area, 80 for every 10,000 residents. 91 of Emsworth’s listed buildings are Grade II. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 17% of its homes were built before 1919. Emsworth grades B+ for history: #9 of 76 in Hampshire.

1Grade II*17on High Street

Listed buildings

80 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

17%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Emsworth in 6 photos

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Lumley MillGrade II* listed

Former Lloyds BankGrade II listed

Church of St JamesGrade II listed

Ivy HouseGrade II listed

Trinity CottageGrade 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.

The map

Where Emsworth’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.

Grade II*

Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+

0 of 8neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 43% were built before 1919.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

92 listed buildings by grade

0 Grade I1 Grade II*91 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 II*

The Grade II* listed building in Emsworth

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Inns & shops · listed 1973Lumley MillPhoto: Shazz · CC BY-SA 2.0

Historic streets

High Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

High Street17 listed

Queen Street14 listed

King Street9 listed

South Street7 listed

Of the 92 entries, 48 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Emsworth’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas81

Inns, shops & warehouses7

Walls, gates & bridges3

Churches, chapels & priories1

81 entries (88%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories.

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

91 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 91 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Church of St James Dolphin Cottage Flint Cottages Forbury Hearnesbrook House Former Lloyds Bank Gosden Cottage Holmwood Holmwood Mews House and Stable Ivy House Keppel Lodge Including Gateway Kings Cottage Lord Raglan P.H.Lumley Terrace Middle House Newnham House North Street House Oaklands Oyster Cottage Sardines Saxted House Sea View House Seafield and Boundary Wall Slipper House South Winds the Studio Stable Block to Rear of No 7 Sussex Brewery Public House Talbot Cottage The Cottage The Crooked House The Crown Public House The Mill Cottage Including Attached Wall to East Around Garage The Old Anchor The Old Flour Mill The Smugglers Rest The White House Tide Mill (Quay Mill)Trentham Cottage Trentham House, Including Roadside Walls and Gate-Piers Trinity Cottage Watersedge Waterside Wharf House Winsley 1, 1A and 3, King Street 1, 1A, 1B and 1C, South Street 1, High Street 1, Queen Street 10, Queen Street 10, South Street 11, High Street 11A, High Street 12, Queen Street 13, High Street 13, Queen Street 14, King Street 15 and 17, Queen Street 16 and 18, King Street 18 and 20, Queen Street 19, King Street 2, King Street 20 and 22, High Street 23, High Street 23, Queen Street 25 and 27, Queen Street 25, South Street 26, High Street 28, High Street 29, Queen Street 3, 3A and 5, High Street 3, Queen Street 3, West Street 30 and 32, South Street 31 and 33, High Street 32, High Street 36, 38 and 40, South Street 38, High Street 39, High Street 4 and 6, King Street 4 and 6, Queen Street 5 and 5A, King Street 5, Queen Street 51, High Street 53, High Street 55 and 57, High Street 6, South Street 7, King Street 7, Queen Street 8, King Street 8, South Street 9 and 11, Queen Street 9 and 9A, High Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 5.8% of Emsworth

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Emsworth 197020 ha

20 hain conservation areas, of 346 ha inside the built-up area.

75 of the 92 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

39 of Emsworth’s 92 listed buildings were added in 1984

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1984 · 391952 · 211975 · 16

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 21 entries were listed in 1952. 39 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Emsworth grades B+ for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (93 points, 81 per 10,000 residents)More than 75% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (17%)More than 50% 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.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Emsworth

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Emsworth	11,512	92	0	B⁺
Westbourne	1,938	54	1	A
Southbourne	4,150	18	0	C⁺
Havant	46,964	80	0	C⁺
West Thorney	1,729	1	1	C⁻
Hambrook and Nutbourne	2,752	13	0	C⁺
Rowlands Castle	2,969	9	0	B⁻
Stoke	1,267	10	0	B⁻

In brief

Emsworth in brief

Emsworth has 92 listed buildings, including Lumley Mill. On High Street alone there are 17 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Most entries on the list, 88%, are houses, terraces and villas. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and William Whitcher (1832) and Harry George Galt (1872) were born here before 1900.

Questions about Emsworth’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Emsworth?

Historic England lists 92 buildings inside Emsworth’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 91 Grade II.

Which street in Emsworth has the most listed buildings?

High Street (17), Queen Street (14) and King Street (9) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Emsworth?

1, covering about 20 hectares of the town. The largest is Emsworth.

When were Emsworth’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 39, in 1984.

How old are the homes in Emsworth?

17% of homes were built before 1919 and 24% 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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