Greenwich is home to a World Heritage Site: Maritime Greenwich

National Maritime MuseumGrade I listedGreat Hall of Eltham PalaceGrade I listedQueen Elizabeth's AlmshousesGrade II listedRoyal Arsenal Rifle Shell Factory GatewayGrade II listedPublic HouseGrade II listed+81See 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 524 entries, 177 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 45 entries were listed in 1951, 9 of the 24 Grade I buildings among them. 327 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 16 have been added in the last 15 years.

World Heritage

10 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.

Burial mound on Winns Common, Plumstead

Conduit Head, Eltham

Eltham Palace

Greenwich Hospital (RN College)

Greenwich Palace

Linear Training Fortification, Royal Military Repository

Queen's House

Shrewsbury Barrow, Shooters Hill

Submarine Telephone Cable Hauler and Gantry at Enderby's Wharf

West Grove, Conduit House, Blackheath

4 registered parks and gardens

Eltham PalaceGrade II*

Greenwich ParkGrade I

Repository WoodsGrade II

Well Hall PleasaunceGrade 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.

15% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 14% 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 (468 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster

Catherine of York

Bridget of York

Henry Maudslay

William Henry Barlow

Sims Reeves

Charles George Gordon

William Christie

Charles Bannerman

Flora Shaw

Flinders Petrie

Richard Thomas Baker

Frederick W. A. G. Haultain

Stanley Christopherson

Mabel St Clair Stobart

Georgina Agnes Brackenbury

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Walter de la Mare

Henry Ruthven Moore

Charlie Buchan

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Charles George Gordon1833–1885 · British army officer and administrator

Flinders Petrie1853–1942 · British Egyptologist (1853–1942)

Evelyn Beatrice Hall1868–1956 · English writer

Walter de la Mare1873–1956 · English poet and fiction writer (1873–1956)

Henry Maudslay1771–1831 · British engineer

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Charlie Buchan1891–1960 · English footballer and sporting journalist (1891–1960)

Catherine of York1479–1527 · English princess

William Christie1845–1922 · British astronomer (1845–1922)

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

Part of Maritime Greenwich, a World Heritage Site, lies in Greenwich. All told, the list holds 524 listed buildings, 24 of them Grade I, including Cutty Sark. Its housing is old: 22% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Its Grade I buildings cluster together: 9 of them stand within 400 m of Royal Naval College Gates, Gate Piers and Lodges to West Entrance.

Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 2012. Most entries on the list, 54%, are houses, terraces and villas. Charles George Gordon (1833), Flinders Petrie (1853) and Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1868) are among the 105 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.