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History of Portishead · Historic England
35 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Portishead’s built-up area, 13 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 6.8% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. Portishead grades C for history: #44 of 49 in Somerset.
Listed buildings
35
13 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
3
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
6.8%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Portishead in 5 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Royal HotelGrade II listed
Chapel at Portishead National Nautical SchoolGrade II listed
Portishead HouseGrade II listed
Guidestone at Junction of Clapton Lane and Clevedon RoadGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos 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 Portishead’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 17neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 31% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
35 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I3 Grade II*31 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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Portishead
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.
Grade II*
The 3 Grade II* listed buildings in Portishead
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
Public · listed 1952Court House Farmhouse
Memorials · listed 1952Medieval Cross 5 Yards from South Porch in St Peter's Churchyard
House · listed 1977The Grange
What’s protected
Most of Portishead’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas20
Public & civic buildings7
Churches, chapels & priories3
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Walls, gates & bridges2
Inns, shops & warehouses1
20 entries (57%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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
31 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 31 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Adelaide TerraceAdministration Block to Number 10 (St Josephs School)Barn to East of Court House FarmhouseBird Tree CottageCapenor CottageCartshed and Stockshed at East End of Barn at Court Farm, Including Attached Pigsty, Detached Foldyard and Cowshed 7 Yards to East of PigstyChapel at Portishead National Nautical SchoolChurch HouseFircliff HouseGreenfield HazelwoodGuidestone at Junction of Clapton Lane and Clevedon RoadHeadmaster's House at Portishead Nautical National SchoolLittle OrchardMoor FarmhouseMounting Block to East of Wraxall LodgeNumbers 9 to 21 and Bounbary Walls and Gatepiers to Woodhill RoadPortishead HousePortishead Nautical National SchoolPortishead Quaker Meeting HouseRemains of Former Windmill in the Golf ClubRoyal HotelSevern HouseThe CottageThe FarmhouseThe Green CottageThe Grey HouseThe White Lion Public House and Section of Former Sea Wall to North End of West FrontTomb of John Hobbes to West of Medieval Churchyard CrossYew Tree House1, Woodhill Road31-49, Woodhill Road
Conservation areas
4 conservation areas cover 3.6% of Portishead
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Portishead Court Farm Environs 19817 ha
Portishead West Hill and Welly Bottom 19926 ha
Portishead East Wood 19935 ha
Portishead Woodhill Road 19924 ha
22 hain conservation areas, of 613 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Portishead Court Farm Environs, was designated in 1981; the newest, Portishead East Wood, in 1993. 17 of the 35 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 Portishead’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1981
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1981 · 23
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The first 3 entries were listed in 1952, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 23 came in 1981, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
History Grade
Portishead grades C for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (42 points, 16 per 10,000 residents)More than 49% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (6.8%)More than 15% of UK towns
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Homes by age
6.8% of Portishead’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
5.2%
Before 1900
1.6%
1900–18
2.1%
1919–29
2.3%
1930s
2.4%
1945–54
8.9%
1955–64
13%
1965–72
8.9%
1973–82
7%
1983–92
8.5%
1993–99
23%
2000–08
13%
2009–15
4.4%
2016–25
PortisheadEngland & Wales
5.2% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2000–08, which added 23% 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 (70 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Portishead has the 88th most Grade I buildings of 379 towns its size
Places of 16,000–42,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Portishead1
#208 of 379for listed buildings per resident (13 per 10,000). Lewes, Stamford and Saffron Walden lead.
87 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Portishead
In brief
Portishead in brief
The official list counts 35 listed buildings in Portishead, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Peter. Only 87 of the 379 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 4 conservation areas, the first designated in 1981. Most entries on the list, 57%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Its homes are mostly newer: 6.8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1981, when 23 of the 35 went on the list. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Portishead’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Portishead?
Historic England lists 35 buildings inside Portishead’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 31 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Portishead?
One: Parish Church of St Peter.
Are there scheduled monuments in Portishead?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Parts of a minor Romano-British villa and later medieval barn 545m south east of St Mary's Well.
How many conservation areas are there in Portishead?
4, covering about 22 hectares of the town. The largest are Portishead Court Farm Environs and Portishead West Hill and Welly Bottom.
When were Portishead’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 23, in 1981.
How old are the homes in Portishead?
6.8% of homes were built before 1919 and 11% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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