II*Church · listed 1984Church of St StephenPhoto: Barry Shimmon · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church of St Stephen · Photo: Barry Shimmon · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Sparsholt · Historic England
13 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Sparsholt’s built-up area, 300 for every 10,000 residents. 12 of Sparsholt’s listed buildings are Grade II. 16% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
13
300 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
16%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Sparsholt
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Sparsholt’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
13 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*12 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*
The Grade II* listed building in Sparsholt
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
12 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 12 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Corner CottageHunters LodgeK6 Telephone KioskL-Shaped Wall Around St Stephen's ChurchyardSparsholt Manor, And Associated Garden Buildings and FeaturesSparsholt War MemorialTaylors MeadThatched CottageThe CottageVaine CottagesWatley Farmhouse5 Tombchests in St Stephen's Churchyard, 2 to Mary and Charles Fielder 1788 and 1795, 2 to East, To Robert Browning 1791 and C1800 to Scares Family and 1 to North East of Church to Robert Locke 1720
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 61% of Sparsholt
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Sparsholt 199019 ha
19 hain conservation areas, of 32 ha inside the built-up area.
13 of the 13 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 Sparsholt’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 10
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The first 10 entries were listed in 1984. Only 2 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 registered park or garden
Sparsholt Manor GardenGrade II
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Sparsholt
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sparsholt | 434 | 13 | 0 | — |
| Littleton | 1,506 | 9 | 0 | C+ |
| Winchester | 48,486 | 488 | 41 | A |
| South Wonston | 2,686 | 0 | 0 | D |
| Kings Worthy | 4,631 | 27 | 1 | C+ |
| King's Somborne | 1,206 | 54 | 0 | A |
| Compton | 1,307 | 5 | 0 | B− |
| Twyford | 1,482 | 53 | 0 | A+ |
In brief
Sparsholt in brief
The official list counts 13 listed buildings in Sparsholt. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1990. The big year was 1984, when 10 of the 13 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Herbert Stewart (1843) and William Stewart (1847) were born here before 1900; and 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Sparsholt’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Sparsholt?
Historic England lists 13 buildings inside Sparsholt’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 12 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Sparsholt?
1, covering about 19 hectares of the town. The largest is Sparsholt.
When were Sparsholt’s buildings listed?
The first in 1984; the most, 10, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Sparsholt?
16% of homes were built before 1919 and 24% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Sparsholt 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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