22 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St Michael and All AngelsGrade I listedThe Queen's HouseGrade II* listed

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.

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 1 entry was listed in 1959. 15 came in 1987, 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.

29% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 12% 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 (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Frederick Tate

Algernon Lushington

Henry Tate

Arthur Gore

Edward Tate

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Arthur Gore1868–1928 · British tennis player (1868–1928)

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Edward Tate1877–1953 · Cricketer (1877-1953)

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Frederick Tate1844–1935 · English cricketer (1844-1935)

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Algernon Lushington1847–1930 · English cricketer (1847-1930)

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Henry Tate1849–1936 · English cricketer (1849-1936)

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

More of Lyndhurst’s homes are old than in most places: 39% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 22 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Only 93 of the 1,339 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 2008.

Most entries on the list, 55%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 5 people born here before 1900, the best known include Arthur Gore (1868), Edward Tate (1877) and Frederick Tate (1844). The big year was 1987, when 15 of the 22 went on the list. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.