IChurch · listed 1955Church of St James the LessOn the list as Church of St JamesPhoto: Martin Bodman · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Halse · Historic England
Old homes in Halse: 48% built before 1919
Against 15% in the typical town, Halse has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 28 buildings inside Halse’s built-up area, 946 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
28
946 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
48%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Halse
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 Halse’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.
28 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*27 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 Halse
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
The largest group of Halse’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas13
Churches, chapels & priories7
Walls, gates & bridges4
Public & civic buildings2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Street furniture1
13 entries (46%) are houses, terraces and villas. 7 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
27 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 27 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Bakers Rock CottageBarn South East of Mount HouseBlake's FarmhouseBroom Millhouse FarmhouseChurch Hill CottageCinquesCorner CottageFormer Halse Manor HospitalGazebo and Walls Enclosing Kitchen Garden and Garden to West of Halse Manor HospitalGeorge Prior Chest Tomb, About 5 Metres West of the Tower, Church of St JamesHalse End FarmhouseHalse Village Shute and Boundary Wall to North of North BrookHalse War MemorialK6 Telephone Kiosk, The GreenManor Cottage School CottageManor FarmhouseOutbuilding and Connecting Wall, About 10 Metres East of the Old RectoryPriory LodgeRichard Prior Chest Tomb, 6 Metres West of the Tower, Church of St JamesRock HouseThe MalthouseThe MountThe Old RectoryThe Old School and Adjoining Wall and Entrance to NorthUnidentified Chest Tomb, 6 Metres West of the Tower, Church of St JamesUnidentified Chest Tomb, About 5 Metres West of the Tower, Church of St JamesWesthayes
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 60% of Halse
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Halse 197714 ha
14 hain conservation areas, of 23 ha inside the built-up area.
28 of the 28 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 Halse’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 22
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1955, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 22 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
48% of Halse’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
48%
Before 1900
1.6%
1900–18
3.2%
1919–29
3.2%
1930s
4%
1945–54
7.1%
1955–64
4%
1965–72
4%
1973–82
4%
1983–92
5.6%
1993–99
7.1%
2000–08
5.6%
2009–15
3.2%
2016–25
HalseEngland & Wales
48% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 7.1% 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 (8 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Halse
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halse | 296 | 28 | 1 | — |
| Cotford St Luke | 2,411 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Milverton | 1,112 | 72 | 1 | A+ |
| Bishops Lydeard | 2,050 | 32 | 1 | B+ |
| Wiveliscombe | 2,316 | 51 | 0 | A |
| Norton Fitzwarren | 3,770 | 9 | 0 | C− |
| Wellington | 13,815 | 111 | 1 | A− |
| Rockwell Green | 2,854 | 10 | 0 | C |
In brief
Halse in brief
Old houses are part of Halse’s character: 48% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 28 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1977. The big year was 1984, when 22 of the 28 went on the list.
Questions about Halse’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Halse?
Historic England lists 28 buildings inside Halse’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 27 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Halse?
One: Church of St James.
How many conservation areas are there in Halse?
1, covering about 14 hectares of the town. The largest is Halse.
When were Halse’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 22, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Halse?
48% of homes were built before 1919 and 54% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Halse 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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