370 listed buildings, 6 of them Grade II*

Walmer CastleGrade II park or gardenChurch of St Mary the Blessed VirginGrade II* listedClarendon HotelGrade II listedAdelaide HouseGrade II listedThe Golden Hind Tea ShopGrade II listed+10See 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.

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Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Of the 370 entries, 233 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 41 entries were listed in 1949. 285 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Artillery castle at Deal

MedievalMedieval manor house, Walmer

1 registered park or garden

Walmer CastleGrade II

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.

25% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 13% 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 (83 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Elizabeth Carter

George Sayer

Samuel Burdon Ellis

Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope

George Allen

Alexander Nelson

John William Collman Williams

John Hulke

Harriet Heron

Edward Millen

Katherine Rose Egan

F. F. Montrésor

John Hassall

Frank Dane

Dornford Yates

Alan Patterson

Norman Long

Alfred John Brown

John Pinder

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Elizabeth Carter1717–1806 · English poet and polymath (1717 – 1806)

Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope1805–1875 · British politician and historian (1805–1875)

John Hulke1830–1895 · British geologist and surgeon (1830–1895)

John Hassall1868–1948 · English illustrator (1868-1948)

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Frank Dane1885–1957 · British actor of the silent era (1885-1957)

Edward Millen1860–1923 · Australian journalist and politician (1860-1923)

Dornford Yates1885–1960 · British writer (1885–1960)

F. F. Montrésor1862–1934 · British novelist (1862–1934)

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

More of Deal’s homes are old than in most places: 30% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 370 listed buildings, including Artillery castle at Deal. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 88% of UK towns. On Middle Street alone there are 64 listed buildings.

A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 86%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 19 people born here before 1900, the best known include Elizabeth Carter (1717), Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope (1805) and John Hulke (1830). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.