161 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Clattern BridgeGrade I listedDruid's Head Public HouseGrade II* listedThe GuildhallGrade II listedFormer Regal CinemaGrade II listedChurch of St John the BaptistGrade II listed+12See 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).

Market Place6 listed

Church Street5 listed

Thames Street4 listed

Ewell Road3 listed

High Street3 listed · 1 II*

Of the 161 entries, 42 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 22 entries were listed in 1951, 2 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 70 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 11 have been added in the last 15 years.

5 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.

Brick reservoir 300yds (270m) SW of Gallows Conduit, Coombe

Clattern Bridge

Coombe Conduit

Gallows Conduit, Coombe

Ivy Conduit, Coombe

1 registered park or garden

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 Cleland

Thomas Daniell

William Daniell

Henry Christy

Eadweard Muybridge

Mary Ellen Edwards

Maybanke Anderson

Henry Musgrove

Bill Brockwell

John Galsworthy

Norman Cooper

Harold Bauer

Cameron Carr

Alfred Eckhard Zimmern

Charles Rought

Frank Cellier

Freddie Grubb

John Cecil Masterman

Edward Gent

Gavin de Beer

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John Galsworthy1867–1933 · English novelist and playwright (1867–1933)

Eadweard Muybridge1830–1904 · English-American photographer (1830–1904)

John Cleland1709–1789 · British writer (1709-1789)

CR

Charles Rought1884–1919 · British rower (1884–1919)

FG

Freddie Grubb1887–1949 · English racing cyclist

GB

Gavin de Beer1899–1972 · British evolutionary embryologist (1899-1972)

Harold Bauer1873–1951 · American pianist of English birth (1873–1951)

AZ

Alfred Eckhard Zimmern1879–1957 · British academic (1879-1957)

Everyone born in Kingston upon Thames → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Kingston upon Thames has 161 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I. All Saints Church sits at the heart of it all, with 3 of the town’s Grade I buildings within 400 m. Its older streets lie in 29 conservation areas, the first designated in 1969. Of the whole list, 52% are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 63 people born here before 1900, the best known include John Galsworthy (1867), Eadweard Muybridge (1830) and John Cleland (1709). It also has 5 scheduled monuments, the archaeology and ruins the law protects. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 21% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.