203 listed buildings, 7 of them Grade I

Church of St WulframGrade I listedAngel and Royal HotelGrade I listedGrantham HouseGrade I listedHurst's AlmshousesGrade II listedStable to Vine House (Between Nos 11 and 13)Grade II listed+14See 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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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 203 entries, 120 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 30 entries were listed in 1950, 6 of the 7 Grade I buildings among them. 133 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 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.

Conduit House, Market Place

Grantham market cross

1 registered park or garden

Belton HouseGrade I

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.

John Still

Henry More

Joseph Manton

James Milson

Alfred Fitchett

Robert Lee

Arnold Rylott

Eliza Gutch

William Henry Fitchett

Frederick Fitchett

Jessie Lipscomb

John Dixon

Margaret Sara Meggitt

John Hinchley

Charles P. Dixon

John Broughton

Dickie Joynes

Matthew Broughton

Arthur Green

William Wand

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Henry More1614–1687 · English philosopher (1614–1687)

Charles P. Dixon1873–1939 · British tennis player (1873–1939)

Jessie Lipscomb1861–1952 · British artist (1861–1952)

John Dixon1861–1931 · English cricketer for Nottinghamshire (1861-1931)

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Arthur Green1885– · English footballer born 1885

Joseph Manton1766–1835 · British gunsmith (1766–1835)

Alfred Fitchett1836–1929 · Anglican dean

William Henry Fitchett1841–1928 · Australian educator, journalist and writer (1841–1928)

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

Grantham has 203 listed buildings, 7 of them Grade I, including St Wulfram's Church. Its Grade I buildings cluster together: 7 of them stand within 400 m of Angel and Royal Hotel. Only 13 of the 249 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 2013.

Most entries on the list, 78%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 29 people born here before 1900, the best known include Henry More (1614), Charles P. Dixon (1873) and Jessie Lipscomb (1861). The big year was 1972, when 133 of the 203 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has 2 scheduled monuments; and 17% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.