IChurch · listed 1957Church of St MaryPhoto: Hugh Chevallier · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Hugh Chevallier · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Upton Grey · Historic England
28 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Upton Grey’s built-up area, 543 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Upton Grey, 27 are Grade II. 35% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
28
543 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
35%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Upton Grey
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 Upton Grey’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IPark or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
28 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*27 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 Upton Grey
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.
What’s protected
Most of Upton Grey’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas23
Walls, gates & bridges1
Churches, chapels & priories1
Inns, shops & warehouses1
Public & civic buildings1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
23 entries (82%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
27 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 27 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Beam EndsBoundary Wall and Gate to Upton Grey HouseCleves FarmhouseCompton HouseCompton House GranaryHoddington Arms Public HouseLittle Tudor CottageManor HouseMead CottageOld Manor LodgeOld Schoolhouse the Post Office CottagePond CottageRose CottageSpinnersThe ForgeThe GablesThe Old BakeryThe Old Post HouseThe Old VicarageThe Old Vicarage,Stable BlockUpton Grey HouseUpton Grey LodgeUpton Grey War MemorialVicarage CottageVillage FarmhouseWayside CottageYew Tree Cottage
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 89% of Upton Grey
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Upton Grey 197340 ha
40 hain conservation areas, of 46 ha inside the built-up area.
28 of the 28 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 Upton Grey’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 191957 · 8
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The first 8 entries were listed in 1957, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 19 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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
The Manor House, Upton GreyGrade II*
Homes by age
35% of Upton Grey’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
26%
Before 1900
7.6%
1900–18
2.9%
1919–29
9.2%
1930s
7.6%
1945–54
4.6%
1955–64
1.7%
1965–72
11%
1973–82
4.6%
1983–92
5.9%
1993–99
2.9%
2000–08
9.2%
2009–15
7.6%
2016–25
Upton GreyEngland & Wales
26% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 11% 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 (7 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Upton Grey
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upton Grey | 516 | 28 | 1 | — |
| Odiham | 5,091 | 189 | 1 | A |
| Old Basing | 3,834 | 61 | 2 | B+ |
| Hook | 9,062 | 20 | 0 | C |
| Basingstoke | 117,211 | 86 | 1 | C |
| Holybourne | 1,304 | 33 | 0 | A− |
| Alton | 17,883 | 145 | 2 | B+ |
| Bentley | 1,406 | 35 | 0 | A |
In brief
Upton Grey in brief
More of Upton Grey’s homes are old than in most places: 35% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 28 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Of the whole list, 82% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1984: 19 of 28.
Questions about Upton Grey’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Upton Grey?
Historic England lists 28 buildings inside Upton Grey’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 27 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Upton Grey?
One: Church of St Mary.
How many conservation areas are there in Upton Grey?
1, covering about 40 hectares of the town. The largest is Upton Grey.
When were Upton Grey’s buildings listed?
The first in 1957; the most, 19, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Upton Grey?
35% of homes were built before 1919 and 48% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Upton Grey 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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