II*Church · listed 1963Church of All SaintsPhoto: Motacilla · CC BY-SA 4.0
Church of All Saints · Photo: Motacilla · CC BY-SA 4.0DHistory Grade
History of Didcot · Historic England
20 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Didcot’s built-up area, 5.8 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 19 of Didcot’s listed buildings. 2.1% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. Didcot grades D for history: #36 of 38 in Oxfordshire.
Listed buildings
20
5.8 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
2.1%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Didcot in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Engine Shed Great Western Railway Heritage CentreGrade II listed
Smiths Farmhouse and Attached WallsGrade II listed
White CottageGrade II listed
Northbourne War MemorialGrade II listed
29 and 31, Manor RoadGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos 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 Didcot’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 22neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 30% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
20 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*19 Grade II
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).
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Didcot
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Didcot’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas13
Churches, chapels & priories4
Street furniture1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Walls, gates & bridges1
13 entries (65%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
19 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 19 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Blagrave FarmhouseChurch Rooms Rectory CottagesCoaling Stage Great Western Railway Heritage CentreCross Approximately 4 Metres South of Church of All SaintsDown FarmhouseEngine Shed Great Western Railway Heritage CentreGroup of 4 Headstones and One Coffin Slab 1 Metre South and East of South Aisle of Church of All SaintsLady Grove FarmhouseManor CottageManor RoadMilestone at Su 5065 8967Northbourne War MemorialSmiths Farmhouse and Attached WallsThe NookThorney Downe Cottage Thorney Downe HouseTransfer Shed Approximately 420 Metres North West of Didcot Railway ShedWhite Cottage125, Lydalls Road29 and 31, Manor Road
Conservation areas
3 conservation areas cover 1.9% of Didcot
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Didcot Old 19799 ha
Didcot Northbourne 19827 ha
Didcot Station Road 19821 ha
17 hain conservation areas, of 896 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Didcot Old, was designated in 1979; the newest, Didcot Station Road, in 1982. 13 of the 20 listed buildings stand in one.
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.
How the list grew
More than half of Didcot’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 13
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1952. 13 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Didcot 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 (21 points, 6 per 10,000 residents)More than 33% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (2.1%)More than 3% 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
2.1% of Didcot’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
1.1%
Before 1900
1%
1900–18
2.2%
1919–29
6.5%
1930s
5.8%
1945–54
8.2%
1955–64
4.9%
1965–72
4.7%
1973–82
13%
1983–92
20%
1993–99
2.5%
2000–08
11%
2009–15
19%
2016–25
DidcotEngland & Wales
1.1% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1993–99, which added 20% 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.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Didcot
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Didcot | 34,600 | 20 | 0 | D |
| Harwell | 3,067 | 66 | 1 | B+ |
| Sutton Courtenay | 3,055 | 62 | 3 | A− |
| Blewbury | 1,708 | 70 | 1 | A |
| Chilton | 1,378 | 8 | 0 | C |
| Steventon | 2,211 | 41 | 1 | B |
| Brightwell-cum-Sotwell | 1,244 | 43 | 0 | A− |
| Drayton | 3,110 | 28 | 0 | B− |
In brief
Didcot in brief
The official list counts 20 listed buildings in Didcot, including Church of All Saints. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1979. Most entries on the list, 65%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Its homes are mostly newer: 2.1% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1986, when 13 of the 20 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Didcot’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Didcot?
Historic England lists 20 buildings inside Didcot’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 19 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Didcot?
3, covering about 17 hectares of the town. The largest are Didcot Old and Didcot Northbourne.
When were Didcot’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 13, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Didcot?
2.1% of homes were built before 1919 and 11% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), 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 · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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