48 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St MaryGrade I listedThe Old Manor HouseGrade II* listedFordingbridge BridgeScheduled monumentThe Tudor Rose InnGrade II listedFront Pavilions of Fordingbridge InfirmaryGrade II listed+2See 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.

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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.

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 11 entries were listed in 1964, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 29 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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.

Fordingbridge Bridge

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.

Charles Chubb

Charles Reeves

James Alexander Seton

Frank Jefferis

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Frank Jefferis1884–1938 · English footballer (1884-1938)

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Charles Reeves1815–1866 · English architect

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James Alexander Seton1816–1845 · Killed in duel

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Charles Chubb1779–1845 · English locksmith

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

Fordingbridge has 48 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Mary's Church. Only 81 of the 949 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 75% are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 4 people born here before 1900, the best known include Frank Jefferis (1884), Charles Reeves (1815) and James Alexander Seton (1816). More than half went on the list in a single year, 1987: 29 of 48. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has a scheduled monument; and 19% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.