II*Church · listed 1966Church of St LeonardPhoto: Wehha · CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Neil Owen · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Butleigh · Historic England
30 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Butleigh’s built-up area, 394 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 28 of Butleigh’s listed buildings. 36% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
30
394 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
36%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Butleigh
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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 Butleigh’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
30 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*28 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 II*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Butleigh
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Walls & gates · listed 1966Bridge Farmhouse
What’s protected
Most of Butleigh’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas16
Walls, gates & bridges7
Public & civic buildings3
Churches, chapels & priories3
Inns, shops & warehouses1
16 entries (53%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 are churches, chapels and priories.
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
28 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 28 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn and Coach House to Butleigh HouseBarn, 8 Metres East of Higher Rockes FarmhouseButleigh CourtButleigh House and Wall on FrontageCider Mill Cottage and Continuous OutbuildingCourt FarmhouseCulvert with Raised Pavement Directly Adjacent to Frontage of Bridge Farmhouse on RoadsideFormer Coach House and Wall at Right Angles to Rear of the Corner HouseFormer Walled Garden South of Butleigh HouseHigher Rocke's FarmhouseHolman's Place and Holman's AnnexHood Family Monument, 24 Metres South of Nave, Church of St LeonardNo 29 and Forecourt WallPenrose Cottage and Attached Section of WallPeony CottagePope Monument, 25 Metres South of Nave, Church of St LeonardRocke'sSycamore CottageThe Corner HouseThe Old Post OfficeWall Along West Side of Church Path, North Side of High Street and East Side of Sub Road11 and 13, High Street22, High Street24, High Street25, High Street31, High Street47, St James Square8, High Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 40% of Butleigh
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Butleigh 199421 ha
21 hain conservation areas, of 53 ha inside the built-up area.
28 of the 30 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 Butleigh’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 211966 · 6
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 6 entries were listed in 1966. 21 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
36% of Butleigh’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
34%
Before 1900
0.9%
1900–18
0.9%
1919–29
0.9%
1930s
4.2%
1945–54
2.7%
1955–64
7.8%
1965–72
12%
1973–82
6.9%
1983–92
7.8%
1993–99
5.1%
2000–08
6.9%
2009–15
9.6%
2016–25
ButleighEngland & Wales
34% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 12% 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 (9 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Butleigh
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butleigh | 761 | 30 | 0 | — |
| Keinton Mandeville | 1,216 | 20 | 0 | A− |
| Street | 12,707 | 30 | 1 | B− |
| Glastonbury | 8,304 | 153 | 7 | A |
| Somerton | 5,106 | 123 | 1 | A |
| Walton | 1,149 | 5 | 0 | C+ |
| Ilchester | 2,062 | 48 | 0 | B+ |
| Pilton | 1,104 | 41 | 2 | A+ |
In brief
Butleigh in brief
More of Butleigh’s homes are old than in most places: 36% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 30 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1994. Most entries on the list, 53%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1986, when 21 of the 30 went on the list.
Questions about Butleigh’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Butleigh?
Historic England lists 30 buildings inside Butleigh’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 28 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Butleigh?
1, covering about 21 hectares of the town. The largest is Butleigh.
When were Butleigh’s buildings listed?
The first in 1966; the most, 21, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Butleigh?
36% of homes were built before 1919 and 38% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Butleigh 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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