Church of St James Without the Priory Gate · Photo: Bashereyre at en · Public domain

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History of Southwick · Historic England

50 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Southwick’s built-up area, 711 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 26% of its homes were built before 1919.

1Grade I 1scheduled monument 16on High Street

Listed buildings

711 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

26%

typical UK town 15%

The map

Where Southwick’s history is

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

Grade IScheduled monument

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

50 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I0 Grade II*49 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 I

The Grade I listed building in Southwick

Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Walls & gates · listed 1967Church of St James Without the Priory GatePhoto: Bashereyre at en · Public domain

What’s protected

Most of Southwick’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas40

Churches, chapels & priories3

Inns, shops & warehouses3

Walls, gates & bridges2

Street furniture2

40 entries (80%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 are churches, chapels and priories.

Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.

Grade II

49 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 49 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Barn 10 Metres North-West of Priory House Barn at Southwick Farm Bridge House Clock Tower at HMS Dryad (Southwick House)Granary 20 Metres North-West of the Old Vicarage Granary 35 Metres West of Priory House HMS Dryad (Southwick House)House North of the Lodge K6 Telephone Kiosk, West Street Oak Lodge Pump Red Lion Inn Rose Cottage South Lodge Stable Block 5 Metres North of Oak Lodge Stables 20 Metres West of the Old Vicarage Stables 5 Metres North of Red Lion Inn The Golden Lion Inn The Lodge The Old Vicarage The Priory House The White House 12, High Street 14, High Street 15 and 15A, High Street 16 and 16A, High Street 17 and 19, High Street 18, High Street 20 and 20B, High Street 20, High Street 22 and 24, West Street 23, West Street 25 and 27, West Street 26 and 28, West Street 29 and 31, West Street 3 and 4, High Street 30, West Street 32, West Street 34, West Street 41, Back Lane 42, 43 and 44, Back Lane 45, Creech Lane 49, High Street 5, High Street 50, High Street 51 and 52, High Street 54-60, High Street 6 and 7, High Street 8 and 9, High Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 26% of Southwick

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

Southwick 197012 ha

12 hain conservation areas, of 45 ha inside the built-up area.

48 of the 50 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.

How the list grew

More than half of Southwick’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1987 · 311967 · 17

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The first 17 entries were listed in 1967, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 31 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

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.

Southwick brewhouse

Homes by age

26% of Southwick’s homes were built before 1919

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

25%

Before 1900

1.5%

1900–18

1919–29

2.9%

1930s

20%

1945–54

1955–64

1965–72

1973–82

2.9%

1983–92

2.9%

1993–99

5.5%

2000–08

5.5%

2009–15

22%

2016–25

SouthwickEngland & Wales

25% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 22% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Southwick

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Southwick	703	50	1	—
Denmead	6,509	6	0	D
Waterlooville	34,766	14	0	D
Wickham	2,170	66	0	A⁻
Fareham	42,633	170	0	B⁻
Knowle	1,487	3	0	C
Portsmouth	223,324	490	13	A
Horndean	34,046	8	0	D

In brief

Southwick in brief

More of Southwick’s homes are old than in most places: 26% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 50 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. On High Street alone there are 16 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Most entries on the list, 80%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1987, when 31 of the 50 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Ted Charlton (1888) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Southwick’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Southwick?

Historic England lists 50 buildings inside Southwick’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 49 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Southwick?

One: Church of St James Without the Priory Gate.

Are there scheduled monuments in Southwick?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Southwick brewhouse.

How many conservation areas are there in Southwick?

1, covering about 12 hectares of the town. The largest is Southwick.

When were Southwick’s buildings listed?

The first in 1967; the most, 31, in 1987.

How old are the homes in Southwick?

26% of homes were built before 1919 and 32% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Southwick has no History Grade.

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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.

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