247 listed buildings, 11 of them Grade II*

Monmouth House (Including the Former Office of the Clerk to the Justices)Grade II* listedSouthend HouseGrade II* listedLondesborough HotelGrade II listedLymington Sea Water BathsGrade II listedThe Old Toll HouseGrade II listed+6See 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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c. 1910

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).

Of the 247 entries, 94 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 48 entries were listed in 1953. 190 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

Nicholas Easton

Thomas Johnstone

George Elgar Hicks

Thomas Blakiston

Luke Furner

George Cull

Frederick Keeping

Mabel Hardy

Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson

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Frederick Keeping1867–1950 · British racing cyclist (1867–1950)

Thomas Blakiston1832–1891 · British zoologist (1832–1891)

George Elgar Hicks1824–1914 · English painter (1824-1914)

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George Cull1856–1898 · English cricketer (1856-1898)

Mabel Hardy1879–1947 · Badminton player

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Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson1896–1961 · British military personnel

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Nicholas Easton1593–1675 · Rhode Island colonial governor

Luke Furner1837–1912 · Mayor of Moonta (1873-76)

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

Measured per resident, Lymington has more listed heritage than 90% of UK towns. In all there are 247 listed buildings, including Church of St. Thomas the Apostle. On High Street alone there are 48 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 4 conservation areas, the first designated in 1977.

Most entries on the list, 73%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 9 people born here before 1900, the best known include Frederick Keeping (1867), Thomas Blakiston (1832) and George Elgar Hicks (1824). The big year was 1974, when 190 of the 247 went on the list. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and 14% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.