303 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

Parish Church of St John the BaptistGrade I listedThe Scenic Railway at DreamlandGrade II* listedWater Tower at Margate StationGrade II listedGeorge and Dragon Public HouseGrade II listedMargate General Post OfficeGrade II listed+18See all photos

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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 303 entries, 172 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Search the rest on Historic England’s list →

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 16 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 216 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 8 have 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.

MedievalDent-de-Lion medieval gatehouse

Salmestone Grange

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.

28% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, 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 (171 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Richard Laming

William Edmunds

Thomas Robson Brownhill

John Neale Dalton

Edward Clodd

George Paramor

Percy Powell-Cotton

Andrew Gault

Alfred Bellerby

Francis John Linnell

Bryher

Noel Webb

Frank Bell

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Bryher1894–1983 · English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor (1894-1983)

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Richard Laming1798–1879 · British chemist (1798-1879)

John Neale Dalton1839–1931 · British priest (1839–1931)

Edward Clodd1840–1930 · English banker, writer and anthropologist (1840-1930)

Andrew Gault1882–1958 · British politician (1882-1958)

Thomas Robson Brownhill1821–1864 · British actor (1821-1864)

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George Paramor1846–1925 · New Zealand cricketer (1846-1925)

Francis John Linnell1892–1944 · Royal Air Force air marshals

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

More of Margate’s homes are old than in most places: 35% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 303 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I, including Shell Grotto. For its size, it has more listed heritage than 75% of UK towns. On Hawley Square alone there are 19 listed buildings.

Its older streets lie in 14 conservation areas, the first designated in 1976. Most entries on the list, 81%, are houses, terraces and villas. Bryher (1894), Richard Laming (1798) and John Neale Dalton (1839) are among the 13 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, it has 2 Grade I buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.