35 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade I

Abbey Church of St MichaelGrade I listedMain Building to Farnborough Hill ConventGrade I listedThatched Cottage Public HouseGrade II listedAldershot Military Museum M BlockGrade II listedPortable Airship Hangar (Formerly Buildings R51 and Q65)Grade II listed+5See 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. 1890

c. 1890

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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).

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 5 entries were listed in 1959, 1 of the 4 Grade I buildings among them. 7 came in 1982, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 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

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.

4.9% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 16% 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 (235 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

H. T. Thrift

George Longman

Joseph Henry Blake

Frank Milligan

Harry Turner

Henry Biziou

Carleton Hobbs

James Gornall

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Frank Milligan1870–1900 · English Test and County cricketer (1870-1900)

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Carleton Hobbs1898–1978 · English actor (1898–1978)

Joseph Henry Blake1859–1951 · British chess player (1859-1951)

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James Gornall1899–1983 · English cricketer (1899-1983)

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George Longman1852–1938 · Cricketer (1852-1938)

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Harry Turner1882–1967 · English footballer (1882-1967)

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Henry Biziou1896–1919 · World War I flying ace

H. T. Thrift1851–1946 · Pioneer settler, real estate agent, brick maker, clerk, and reeve (18…

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

The official list counts 35 listed buildings in Farnborough, 4 of them Grade I, including Building Q121 at Former Royal Aircraft Establishment Site. Only 30 of the 181 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas. Of the whole list, 63% are houses, terraces and villas.

Frank Milligan (1870), Carleton Hobbs (1898) and Joseph Henry Blake (1859) are among the 8 people born here before 1900. Its homes are mostly newer: 8.8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.