IChurch · listed 1997Church Of St DavidOn the list as Church of St David, BettwsPhoto: John Lord · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0DHistory Grade
History of Bettws · Cadw
1 listed building, 1 of them Grade I
Cadw counts it inside Bettws’s built-up area, 4.5 for every 10,000 residents. 7.6% of its homes were built before 1919. Bettws grades D for history.
Listed buildings
1
4.5 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
7.6%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Bettws
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Bettws’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
1 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*0 Grade II
Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Bettws
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 1.6% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
History Grade
Bettws grades D for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (3 points, 13 per 10,000 residents)More than 20% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (7.6%)More than 17% 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
7.6% of Bettws’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
6.6%
Before 1900
1.1%
1900–18
0%
1919–29
0%
1930s
20%
1945–54
23%
1955–64
18%
1965–72
9.9%
1973–82
3.3%
1983–92
1.1%
1993–99
15%
2000–08
1.1%
2009–15
1.1%
2016–25
BettwsEngland & Wales
6.6% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 23% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Bettws has the 89th most Grade I buildings of 1,422 towns its size
Places of 1,000–4,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Bettws1
#1,263 of 1,422for listed buildings per resident (4 per 10,000). Burford, Painswick and Chipping Campden lead.
88 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bettws
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bettws | 2,237 | 1 | 1 | D |
| Llangeinor | 1,016 | 1 | 0 | C |
| Sarn | 11,867 | 67 | 0 | A− |
| Pont Rhyd-y-cyff | 1,481 | 0 | 0 | D |
| Pontycymer | 2,421 | 6 | 0 | B |
| Ogmore Vale | 3,098 | 3 | 0 | C+ |
| Pen-y-fai | 2,301 | 6 | 0 | C− |
| Blaengarw | 1,779 | 1 | 0 | C |
In brief
Bettws in brief
The official list counts 1 listed building in Bettws, 1 of them Grade I. Only 88 of the 1,422 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its homes are mostly newer: 7.6% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 20% of UK towns. Beyond that, its only entry went on the list in 1997.
Questions about Bettws’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bettws?
Cadw lists 1 building inside Bettws’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 0 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Bettws?
One: Church of St David, Bettws.
How old are the homes in Bettws?
7.6% of homes were built before 1919 and 7.6% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and historic parks and gardens: Cadw, © Crown copyright, via DataMapWales.
Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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