IChurch · listed 1958Church of St NicholasPhoto: Martin Bodman · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Combe St Nicholas · Historic England
20 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Combe St Nicholas’s built-up area, 287 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Combe St Nicholas, 19 are Grade II. 42% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
20
287 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
42%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Combe St Nicholas
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 Combe St Nicholas’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.
20 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*19 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 Grade I listed building in Combe St Nicholas
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.
What’s protected
Most of Combe St Nicholas’s listed buildings are churches and chapels
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Churches, chapels & priories12
Houses, terraces & villas3
Walls, gates & bridges3
Street furniture1
Public & civic buildings1
3 entries (15%) are houses, terraces and villas. 12 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 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
19 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 19 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Aplin Family Monument in Churchyard, About 8 Metres North of Priest's Door, Church of St NicholasBarn, About 12 Metres North of Whitehall FarmhouseBevils Family Monument in Churchyard About 9 Metres North of North Aisle, Church of St NicholasCombe Hill Farmhouse and Walls Returned on South Front with GatepiersGates, railings and wall on north side of churchyard, continued east fronting schoolLamp post at NGR ST 3013 1134Methodist Church, Gates and Railings Fronting RoadPyke Family Monument in Churchyard, About 24 Metres North of North Aisle, Church of St NicholasRectory CourtRobert Family Monument in Churchyard, About 30 Metres North of North Porch, Church of St NicholasTithe CottageTrout Family Monument in Churchyard, About 13 Metres North of North Porch, Church of St NicholasUnidentified Monument in Churchyard About 11 Metres North of North Porch, Church of St NicholasUnidentified Monument in Churchyard About 13 Metres North of Tower, Church of St NicholasUnidentified Monument in Churchyard, 500 Millimetres West of North Porch, Church of St NicholasUnidentified Monument in Churchyard, About 12 Metres North of North Side, Church of St NicholasUnidentified Monument in Churchyard, About 20 Metres North of North Aisle, Church of St NicholasUnidentified Monument in Churchyard, About 3 Metres North of Priest's Door, Church of St NicholasWhitehall Farmhouse
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 7.3% of Combe St Nicholas
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Combe St Nicholas 19812 ha
2 hain conservation areas, of 33 ha inside the built-up area.
17 of the 20 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 Combe St Nicholas’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1987 · 18
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1958, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 18 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
42% of Combe St Nicholas’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
39%
Before 1900
2.9%
1900–18
1%
1919–29
3.8%
1930s
5.4%
1945–54
5.4%
1955–64
8.3%
1965–72
10%
1973–82
5.4%
1983–92
4.8%
1993–99
7.3%
2000–08
2.9%
2009–15
3.8%
2016–25
Combe St NicholasEngland & Wales
39% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 10% 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 (20 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Combe St Nicholas
In brief
Combe St Nicholas in brief
More of Combe St Nicholas’s homes are old than in most places: 42% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 20 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1981.
Most entries on the list, 60%, are churches, chapels and priories. The big year was 1987, when 18 of the 20 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: William Aplin (1840) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Combe St Nicholas’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Combe St Nicholas?
Historic England lists 20 buildings inside Combe St Nicholas’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 19 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Combe St Nicholas?
One: Church of St Nicholas.
How many conservation areas are there in Combe St Nicholas?
1, covering about 2 hectares of the town. The largest is Combe St Nicholas.
When were Combe St Nicholas’s buildings listed?
The first in 1958; the most, 18, in 1987.
How old are the homes in Combe St Nicholas?
42% of homes were built before 1919 and 47% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Combe St Nicholas 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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