IHouse · listed 1961Hymerford HousePhoto: Unknown photographer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hymerford House · Photo: Unknown photographer · CC BY-SA 4.0–Not graded
History of Burton · Historic England
31 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Burton’s built-up area, 410 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 29 of Burton’s listed buildings. 30% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
31
410 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
2
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
30%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Burton
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where Burton’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
31 listed buildings by grade
2 Grade I0 Grade II*29 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.
Grade I
The 2 Grade I listed buildings in Burton
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
IChurch · listed 1961Naish PrioryOn the list as Naish Priory, including attached Priory Cottage and north boundary railingsPhoto: Mike Searle · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Burton’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas25
Churches, chapels & priories4
Inns, shops & warehouses1
Walls, gates & bridges1
25 entries (81%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings.
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
29 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 29 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Burton Barton, 3 Higher BurtonBurton Barton, 4 Higher BurtonBurton Barton, 5 Higher BurtonBurton Cottage FarmhouseBurton FarmhouseBurton FarmhouseFinch Cottage, Burton BartonFord Flour Mill and Mill House, With Front Boundary RailingsFormer Barn, 20 Metres South of Skinners Hill FarmhouseFormer Stable Building, 10 Metres South of Naish PrioryGrove CottageHerne CottageHolly CottageHoneysuckle CottageNaish CottageNorth Coker CottageNorth Coker HouseNorth Lodge with Attached South East Boundary Wall and GatewayPriory CottageThe ChantryThe End HouseThe Old Sheep Dip, 50 Metres East South East of Hymerford HouseThe Outbuildings, 5 Metres East of North Coker House1, Buntham2 and 3, Buntham2, Skinners Hill Farmhouse3, Skinners Hill Farmhouse4, Buntham4, Skinners Hill Farmhouse
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 21% of Burton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
North Coker 19789 ha
9 hain conservation areas, of 44 ha inside the built-up area.
13 of the 31 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 Burton’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 171961 · 14
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 14 entries were listed in 1961, 2 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 17 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
30% of Burton’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
29%
Before 1900
1.4%
1900–18
5.6%
1919–29
5.6%
1930s
8.1%
1945–54
15%
1955–64
15%
1965–72
2.8%
1973–82
4.2%
1983–92
5.6%
1993–99
2.8%
2000–08
1.4%
2009–15
4.2%
2016–25
BurtonEngland & Wales
29% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 15% 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 (10 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Burton
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burton | 756 | 31 | 2 | — |
| Barwick and Stoford | 1,095 | 15 | 0 | B |
| Yeovil | 50,170 | 131 | 3 | B− |
| Stoke sub Hamdon | 1,360 | 37 | 1 | A+ |
| Misterton | 1,037 | 14 | 0 | B |
| Merriott | 2,068 | 58 | 0 | A |
| Martock | 4,079 | 162 | 2 | A |
| Crewkerne | 7,067 | 165 | 1 | A |
In brief
Burton in brief
Old houses are part of Burton’s character: 30% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 31 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1978. Most entries on the list, 81%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1984, when 17 of the 31 went on the list.
Questions about Burton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Burton?
Historic England lists 31 buildings inside Burton’s built-up area: 2 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 29 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Burton?
2, including Hymerford House and Naish Priory, including attached Priory Cottage and north boundary railings.
How many conservation areas are there in Burton?
1, covering about 9 hectares of the town. The largest is North Coker.
When were Burton’s buildings listed?
The first in 1961; the most, 17, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Burton?
30% of homes were built before 1919 and 41% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Burton has no History Grade.
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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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