6 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St MartinGrade I listedSt Martins War MemorialGrade II listed

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.

c. 1890

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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.

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.

The official list counts 6 listed buildings in St Martins, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Martin. Only 92 of the 1,278 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; the list grew between 1952 and 2019; and 14% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.