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History of Godshill · Historic England

3 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Godshill’s built-up area, 70 for every 10,000 residents. Godshill’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 38% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
3
70 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
38%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Godshill’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

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

3 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*3 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 II

3 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 3 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 99% of Godshill

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

Western Escarpment 200846 ha
46 hain conservation areas, of 47 ha inside the built-up area.

3 of the 3 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.

Homes by age

38% of Godshill’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

34%
Before 1900
4.9%
1900–18
6.3%
1919–29
6.3%
1930s
4.9%
1945–54
9.8%
1955–64
6.3%
1965–72
9.8%
1973–82
8.3%
1983–92
1.5%
1993–99
4.9%
2000–08
3.4%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
GodshillEngland & Wales

34% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 9.8% 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 (7 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Godshill

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Godshill43130—
Fordingbridge4,947481A−
Sandleheath1,54620C−
Redlynch and Woodfalls2,446110B
Alderholt2,86800D−
Downton2,9521073A
Ringwood12,789950B+
Hightown1,29620C
In brief

Godshill in brief

More of Godshill’s homes are old than in most places: 38% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 3 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 2008. Beyond that, all its entries went on the list in 1987.

Questions about Godshill’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Godshill?

Historic England lists 3 buildings inside Godshill’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 3 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Godshill?

1, covering about 46 hectares of the town. The largest is Western Escarpment.

How old are the homes in Godshill?

38% of homes were built before 1919 and 51% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Godshill has no History Grade.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.