Photo: Arpingstone · Public domainOld homes in Monkton Combe: 45% built before 1919
Against 15% in the typical town, Monkton Combe has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 22 buildings inside Monkton Combe’s built-up area, 367 for every 10,000 residents.
Where Monkton Combe’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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.
The largest group of Monkton Combe’s listed buildings is churches and chapels
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
6 entries (27%) are houses, terraces and villas. 10 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.
22 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 22 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 22% of Monkton Combe
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
19 of the 22 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.
More than half of Monkton Combe’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 4 entries were listed in 1956. 15 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
45% of Monkton Combe’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
42% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 21% 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 (3 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Monkton Combe
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monkton Combe | 600 | 22 | 0 | — |
| Winsley | 1,365 | 26 | 0 | A |
| Bath | 94,080 | 2,275 | 102 | A+ |
| Bathampton | 1,698 | 29 | 0 | A− |
| Westwood | 1,001 | 7 | 0 | B− |
| Bathford | 1,153 | 81 | 0 | A |
| Bradford-on-Avon | 9,864 | 319 | 8 | A |
| Batheaston | 3,878 | 131 | 0 | A+ |
Monkton Combe in brief
Old houses are part of Monkton Combe’s character: 45% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 22 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1978. The big year was 1984, when 15 of the 22 went on the list.
Questions about Monkton Combe’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Monkton Combe?
Historic England lists 22 buildings inside Monkton Combe’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 22 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Monkton Combe?
1, covering about 5 hectares of the town. The largest is Monkton Combe.
When were Monkton Combe’s buildings listed?
The first in 1956; the most, 15, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Monkton Combe?
45% of homes were built before 1919 and 55% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Monkton Combe 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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