105 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

The Elizabethan School RoomGrade I listedChurch of St Peter and St PaulGrade II* listedUppingham School Science Block and Victoria TowerGrade II listedWhite Hart Public HouseGrade II listedUppingham Cricket PavilionGrade II listed+6See 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.

High Street West7 listed · 1 II*

High Street East6 listed

School Lane3 listed

Of the 105 entries, 26 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 44 entries were listed in 1955, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 59 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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.

19% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2000–08, 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 (67 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

J. Batty Langley

Edward Brown

Ada Goodrich Freer

Charles Thring

Gabrielle Maud Vassal

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Ada Goodrich Freer1857–1931 · Folklorist and psychic researcher (1857–1931)

Gabrielle Maud Vassal1880–1959 · British naturalist

EB

Edward Brown1837–1900 · Cricketer (1837-1900)

JL

J. Batty Langley1834–1914 · British politician (1834-1914)

CT

Charles Thring1861–1939 · English cricketer (1861-1939)

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

Old houses are part of Uppingham’s character: 22% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 105 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Elizabethan School Room, Uppingham School. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 89% of UK towns. Only 87 of the 1,009 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1981. Most entries on the list, 58%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 5 people born here before 1900, the best known include Ada Goodrich Freer (1857), Gabrielle Maud Vassal (1880) and Edward Brown (1837).