54 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade II*

Town HallGrade II* listedWhitchurch Silk MillGrade II* listedChurch of All HallowsGrade II* listedBaptist ChapelGrade II listedLawn CottageGrade II listed+1See 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.

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.

Of the 54 entries, 19 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 7 entries were listed in 1953. 43 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 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.

William Withers

Edward Hemsted

Reginald Denning

Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

Frederick Hunt

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Alfred Denning, Baron Denning1899–1999 · British judge (1899-1999)

William Withers1823–1913 · Historian

Reginald Denning1894–1990 · British Army general (1894-1990)

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Edward Hemsted1846–1884 · English cricketer (1846-1884)

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Frederick Hunt1899–1954 · English flying ace

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

The official list counts 54 listed buildings in Whitchurch, including Town Hall. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1978. Most entries on the list, 74%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (1899), William Withers (1823) and Reginald Denning (1894) are among the 5 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1984, when 43 of the 54 went on the list. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 21% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.