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History of Corston · Historic England

Old homes in Corston: 47% built before 1919

The typical town has 15%: Corston has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 12 buildings inside Corston’s built-up area, 239 for every 10,000 residents.

Listed buildings
12
239 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
47%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Corston

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 Corston’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Manor Farmhouse, Grade II*
Grade II*

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

12 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*11 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 Grade II* listed building in Corston

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Grade II

11 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 11 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 47% of Corston

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Corston 198312 ha
12 hain conservation areas, of 25 ha inside the built-up area.

12 of the 12 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 Corston’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1984 · 10
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 1 entry was listed in 1956. 10 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

47% of Corston’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

47%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
2.5%
1919–29
2.5%
1930s
11%
1945–54
8.9%
1955–64
6.9%
1965–72
6.9%
1973–82
4.4%
1983–92
6.9%
1993–99
2.5%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
CorstonEngland & Wales

47% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 11% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Corston

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Corston502120—
Newton St Loe1,37263A−
Saltford4,133310B−
Keynsham19,257661B−
Bath94,0802,275102A+
Farmborough1,106130B+
Timsbury2,506200B+
Wick1,579190A−
In brief

Corston in brief

Old houses are part of Corston’s character: 47% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 12 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1983. The big year was 1984, when 10 of the 12 went on the list.

Questions about Corston’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Corston?

Historic England lists 12 buildings inside Corston’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 11 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Corston?

1, covering about 12 hectares of the town. The largest is Corston.

When were Corston’s buildings listed?

The first in 1956; the most, 10, in 1984.

How old are the homes in Corston?

47% of homes were built before 1919 and 51% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Corston has no History Grade.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.