111 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St John the BaptistGrade I listedTonedale Mills (west complex)Grade II* listedTown Hall Offices of Wellington Weekly NewsGrade II listedFormer Squirrel HotelGrade II listedUnited Reformed ChurchGrade II listed+1See all photos

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.

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).

Of the 111 entries, 51 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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.

The first 19 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 86 came in 1976, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 registered parks and gardens

Nynehead CourtGrade II*

Wellington ParkGrade II*

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.

James Lackington

Henry Hope

George Smith

Thomas Spencer Baynes

William Hood Treacher

William Pulman

Henry Fox

Francis Hugh Fox

Froude Hancock

Harry Cording

Ernest Alfred Adams

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Harry Cording1891–1954 · British actor (1891-1954)

George Smith1815–1871 · Anglican missionary in China and bishop (1815-1871)

Thomas Spencer Baynes1823–1887 · English philosopher and editor (1823–1887)

James Lackington1746–1815 · British businessman

Henry Fox1856–1888 · English cricketer for Somerset (1856-1888)

William Hood Treacher1849–1919 · British colonial administrator (1849–1919)

Francis Hugh Fox1863–1952 · English rugby union footballer (1863-1952)

Froude Hancock1865–1933 · English rugby union footballer

Everyone born in Wellington → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Per resident, Wellington has more listed heritage than 78% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 111 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St John the Baptist. Only 108 of the 577 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On High Street alone there are 24 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1977. Most entries on the list, 81%, are houses, terraces and villas. Harry Cording (1891), George Smith (1815) and Thomas Spencer Baynes (1823) are among the 11 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: 18% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.