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B−History Grade
History of Radstock · Historic England

21 listed buildings

All of Radstock’s listed buildings are Grade II. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Radstock’s built-up area, 21 for every 10,000 residents. 21% of its homes were built before 1919. Radstock grades B− for history: #35 of 49 in Somerset.

Listed buildings
21
21 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
21%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Radstock in 6 photos

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 Radstock’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.

Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 7neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 44% were built before 1919.

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

21 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*21 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).

What’s protected

Most of Radstock’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas14
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Churches, chapels & priories2
Public & civic buildings1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

14 entries (67%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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.

Grade II

21 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 21 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 38% of Radstock

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

Radstock 1999119 ha
119 hain conservation areas, of 316 ha inside the built-up area.

17 of the 21 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 Radstock’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1979

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

1979 · 16
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 4 entries were listed in 1950. 16 came in 1979, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Radstock grades B− for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (21 points, 21 per 10,000 residents)More than 44% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (21%)More than 63% 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.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Radstock

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Radstock9,983210B−
Midsomer Norton13,749390B
Peasedown St John6,66870C
Paulton6,502180C+
Timsbury2,506200B+
Chilcompton1,857180B+
High Littleton1,65580B
Coleford2,235100B−
In brief

Radstock in brief

Radstock has 21 listed buildings, including Fir Tree Inn. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1999. Most entries on the list, 67%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1979, when 16 of the 21 went on the list. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Bill Hyman (1875) was born here before 1900; and 21% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Radstock’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Radstock?

Historic England lists 21 buildings inside Radstock’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 21 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Radstock?

1, covering about 119 hectares of the town. The largest is Radstock.

When were Radstock’s buildings listed?

The first in 1950; the most, 16, in 1979.

How old are the homes in Radstock?

21% of homes were built before 1919 and 30% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

© 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.