170 listed buildings, 12 of them Grade II*

Cams HallGrade II* listedRoseneathGrade II* listedFort FarehamGrade II listedPost OfficeGrade II listedRailway ViaductGrade II listed+8See 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.

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).

High Street35 listed · 4 II*

Union Street5 listed

West Street5 listed

East Street3 listed

Lower Quay3 listed

North Wallington3 listed

Of the 170 entries, 60 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Search the rest on Historic England’s list →

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 34 entries were listed in 1955. 123 came in 1976, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Fort Fareham

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.

5.4% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 19% 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 (38 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Henry Chads

Alexander Mackonochie

Randal Cremer

George Case

Frederick Jackman

Mark Melford

James Darby

Charles Budden

Tommy Green

Reginald Keller

Anthony Arnold

Basil Gates

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Randal Cremer1828–1908 · English politician (1828–1908)

TG

Tommy Green1894–1975 · British racewalker (1894–1975)

GC

George Case1839–1911 · English cricketer (1839-1911)

JD

James Darby1865–1943 · English cricketer (1865-1943)

CB

Charles Budden1879–1969 · English cricketer (1879-1969)

Alexander Mackonochie1825–1887 · British priest (1825–1887)

FJ

Frederick Jackman1841–1891 · English cricketer (1841-1891)

Mark Melford1850–1914 · British author, actor and variety artist

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

Fareham has 170 listed buildings, including Cams Hall. High Street alone has 35 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 7 conservation areas, the first designated in 1969. Of the whole list, 66% are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 12 people born here before 1900, the best known include Randal Cremer (1828), Tommy Green (1894) and George Case (1839). Its homes are mostly newer: 7.1% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1976: 123 of 170. The rest is about typical: it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.