117 listed buildings, 5 of them Grade II*

Old GuildhallGrade II* listedChurch of St Nicholas of MyraGrade II* listedButter Cross or Pulestone Cross, on the south west side of the market placeScheduled monumentRoving bridge and lock called Newport Lock 255m south east of Wrekin View FarmScheduled monumentSwan Inn Public HouseGrade II listed+2See 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).

Of the 117 entries, 72 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 27 entries were listed in 1952. 76 came in 1978, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

2 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.

Butter Cross or Pulestone Cross, on the south west side of the market place

Roving bridge and lock called Newport Lock 255m south east of Wrekin View Farm

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.

7.5% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 19% 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 (59 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

John Earp

Percy John Heawood

Edward Heawood

James Quibell

Herbert Elliott

18501875190019251950

JQ

James Quibell1867–1935 · British egyptologist (1867–1935)

Percy John Heawood1861–1955 · British mathematician (1861–1955)

JE

John Earp1860– · English footballer (1860-?)

HE

Herbert Elliott1887–1973 · Cricketer (1887-1973)

EH

Edward Heawood1863–1949 · Librarian of the Royal Geographical Society

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

Measured per resident, Newport has more listed heritage than 78% of UK towns. In all there are 117 listed buildings, including Newport Guildhall. High Street alone has 38 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970.

Most entries on the list, 74%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 5 people born here before 1900, the best known include James Quibell (1867), Percy John Heawood (1861) and John Earp (1860). Its homes are mostly newer: 8.3% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.