131 listed buildings, 6 of them Grade II*

Eagle House including balustrade two yards in front of south elevationGrade II* listedPine HouseGrade II* listedNorthend Inn Public HouseGrade II listedClovelly Conifer CottageGrade II listedToll HouseGrade II listed+1See 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.

Of the 131 entries, 42 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 15 entries were listed in 1956. 109 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

World Heritage

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.

29% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 22% 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 (18 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

William Talbot Aveline

Arthur Sampson Pagden

George Montague Harper

J.J. Goodwin

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George Montague Harper1865–1922 · British Army general

J.J. Goodwin1870–1898 · Stenographer (1870-1898)

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William Talbot Aveline1822–1903 · British geologist and archaeologist

AP

Arthur Sampson Pagden1858–1942 · English civil servant

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

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Batheaston: per resident it has more than 92% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 131 listed buildings, including Eagle House. Its housing is old: 30% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. High Street alone has 21 listed buildings.

Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1968. Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas. George Montague Harper (1865), J.J. Goodwin (1870) and William Talbot Aveline (1822) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building.