IChurch · listed 1949Bourne AbbeyOn the list as Parish Church of St Peter and St PaulPhoto: Alex Cameron · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bourne Castle · Photo: Bob Harvey · CC BY-SA 2.0B−History Grade
History of Bourne · Historic England
62 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Bourne’s built-up area, 35 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 8.1% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. Bourne grades B− for history: #30 of 61 in Lincolnshire.
Listed buildings
62
35 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
8.1%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Bourne in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Parish Church of St Peter and St PaulGrade I listed
Red HallGrade II* listed
Baldock's MillGrade II listed
Anchor InnGrade II listed
Town HallGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos 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 Bourne’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 12neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
62 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*60 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. 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).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Bourne
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.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Bourne
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Public · listed 1949Red HallPhoto: Richard Croft · CC BY-SA 2.0
Historic streets
West Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
West Street10 listed
North Street6 listed
South Street4 listed
Of the 62 entries, 26 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Bourne’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas42
Inns, shops & warehouses9
Churches, chapels & priories4
Public & civic buildings3
Walls, gates & bridges2
Street furniture1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
42 entries (68%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 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
60 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 60 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Anchor InnBaldock's MillBaptist ChapelBourne Eau HouseBourne HouseBrook LodgeCavalry HouseChapel of Rest, Bourne CemeteryEastgate HouseFootbridge to rear of, and part of the property of 30, Bourne Eau HouseMason's Arms Public HouseMethodist ChurchMilestone on Northern Parish BoundaryOld Grammar School (In Churchyard)Ostler Memorial FountainPremises Adjoining Item 1/13 to the West Occupied by Boots and Lyall and CompanyPremises Occupied by Midland BankPremises on Corner of South Street Occupied by Harrison and Dunn, Bourne Cleaners and OvertonSaxonhurstSection of Warehouses Occupied by Wherry and Sons to the South of the Carriage ArchwayShippon Barn to North of Well Head CottageSouthern Portion of Premises Occupied by HornStone House, Adjoining to RightThe Angel HotelThe Burghley ArmsThe Crown Public HouseThe Golden Lion Public HouseTown HallTrustee Savings BankTudor CottagesWake HouseWall and Gate Posts of Number 29Wall to the North of Old Grammar SchoolWell Head Cottage11, Bedehouse Bank12, West Street13, West Street14 and 16, West Street15, North Street17, North Street18, North Street18, West Street19 and 21, West Street29, North Street29, South Street3, South Street31 and 33, South Street34-42, West Street35, North Street4, St Peter's Road44, West Street45, Eastgate47, Eastgate5, South Street51, West Street61, West Street74 and 76 Austerby8 and 10, North Street9, Victoria Place91, West Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 8.1% of Bourne
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Bourne 197743 ha
43 hain conservation areas, of 530 ha inside the built-up area.
51 of the 62 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 Bourne’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1972
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1972 · 451949 · 13
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 13 entries were listed in 1949, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 45 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 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 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
History Grade
Bourne grades B− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (67 points, 38 per 10,000 residents)More than 64% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (8.1%)More than 19% of UK towns
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.
Homes by age
8.1% of Bourne’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
6.2%
Before 1900
1.9%
1900–18
1.9%
1919–29
2.4%
1930s
3.7%
1945–54
3.7%
1955–64
7.3%
1965–72
7.8%
1973–82
12%
1983–92
8.5%
1993–99
15%
2000–08
11%
2009–15
19%
2016–25
BourneEngland & Wales
6.2% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 19% 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 (47 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
4 notable people born in Bourne before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
William Dodd
Charles Frederick Worth
Lilian Wyles
1500165018001950
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley1520–1598 · English statesman and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I (1520-1598)
Charles Frederick Worth1825–1895 · English fashion designer (1825-1895)
William Dodd1729–1777 · English Anglican clergyman and forger (1729-1777)
LW
Lilian Wyles1885–1975 · British police officer
Everyone born in Bourne → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Bourne has the 98th most Grade I buildings of 509 towns its size
Places of 10,000–28,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Bourne1
#188 of 509for listed buildings per resident (35 per 10,000). Bridport, Whitby and Lewes lead.
97 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bourne
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourne | 17,495 | 62 | 1 | B− |
| Thurlby | 2,139 | 13 | 1 | C+ |
| Morton | 2,180 | 21 | 1 | B− |
| Baston | 1,576 | 20 | 1 | B |
| Langtoft | 2,010 | 15 | 1 | C+ |
| Market Deeping | 6,533 | 79 | 2 | B |
| Corby Glen | 1,006 | 31 | 2 | A |
| Ryhall | 1,444 | 18 | 1 | B+ |
In brief
Bourne in brief
The official list counts 62 listed buildings in Bourne, 1 of them Grade I, including Bourne Abbey. Only 97 of the 509 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. West Street alone has 10 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1977.
Most entries on the list, 68%, are houses, terraces and villas. William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520), Charles Frederick Worth (1825) and William Dodd (1729) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. Its homes are mostly newer: 8.1% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Bourne’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bourne?
Historic England lists 62 buildings inside Bourne’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 60 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Bourne?
One: Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul.
Which street in Bourne has the most listed buildings?
West Street (10), North Street (6) and South Street (4) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Bourne?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Bourne Castle.
How many conservation areas are there in Bourne?
1, covering about 43 hectares of the town. The largest is Bourne.
When were Bourne’s buildings listed?
The first in 1949; the most, 45, in 1972.
Who was born in Bourne?
Among people born before 1900: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520), Charles Frederick Worth (1825), William Dodd (1729) and Lilian Wyles (1885).
How old are the homes in Bourne?
8.1% of homes were built before 1919 and 12% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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