80 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Church of St FaithGrade II* listedThe Royal Oak Public HouseGrade II listedSignal Box at Havant StationGrade II listedThe Gothick LibraryGrade II listedThe Green CottageGrade 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.

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).

Of the 80 entries, 24 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 19 entries were listed in 1952. 34 came in 1975, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 4 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

3.4% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 37% 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 (46 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

John Bulbeck

Francis Foster

Okeover Longcroft

Henry Kay

Thomas Chignell

Geoffrey Arbuthnot

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FF

Francis Foster1848–1931 · English cricketer (1848-1931)

HK

Henry Kay1851–1922 · English cricketer (1851-1922)

JB

John Bulbeck1818–1888 · English cricketer (1818-1888)

OL

Okeover Longcroft1850–1871 · English cricketer (1850-1871)

TC

Thomas Chignell1880–1965 · English cricketer (1880-1965)

Geoffrey Arbuthnot1885–1957 · Royal Navy admiral

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

Havant has 80 listed buildings, including Church of St Faith. On East Street alone there are 8 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 10 conservation areas, the first designated in 1975. Most entries on the list, 73%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 6 people born here before 1900, the best known include Francis Foster (1848), Henry Kay (1851) and John Bulbeck (1818). Its homes are mostly newer: 4.7% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Beyond that, it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.