133 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade I

Church of St Paul Including Attached Former Sunday SchoolroomGrade I listedSpalding War MemorialGrade I listedIsobel's Pantry Ye Olde White Horse Public HouseGrade II listedSunday School to Congregational ChurchGrade II listedGamlyn's AlmshousesGrade II listed+13See 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. 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).

London Road11 listed · 1 II*

Bridge Street6 listed

Double Street5 listed

Church Street4 listed

High Street4 listed

Market Place4 listed

New Road3 listed

Of the 133 entries, 58 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 40 entries were listed in 1950, 2 of the 4 Grade I buildings among them. 44 came in 1975, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

Ayscoughfee HallGrade 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.

Sarah Bennett

George Lazenby

Richard Johnson

Harold Stiles

John William Fordham Johnson

Frank Pick

E. E. Cammack

Tim Inskip

Reginald Mills

John Curtois Howard

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FP

Frank Pick1878–1941 · British transport administrator

TI

Tim Inskip1885–1971 · English cricketer and British army officer (1885-1971)

John William Fordham Johnson1866–1938 · Canadian lieutenant governor (1866-1938)

George Lazenby1807–1895 · Western Australian pioneer and cabinetmaker

RM

Reginald Mills1885–1968 · Air Vice Marshal (1885-1968)

Sarah Bennett1797–1861 · British governess (1797–1861)

Richard Johnson1827–1924 · British railway engineer

HS

Harold Stiles1863–1946 · British surgeon (1863–1946)

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

Spalding has 133 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade I. Ayscoughfee Hall Museum sits at the heart of it all, with 3 of the town’s Grade I buildings within 400 m. Only 28 of the 338 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. London Road alone has 11 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Of the whole list, 69% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 10 people born here before 1900, the best known include Frank Pick (1878), Tim Inskip (1885) and John William Fordham Johnson (1866). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.