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History of West Chinnock · Historic England

30 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside West Chinnock’s built-up area, 503 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in West Chinnock is Grade II. 36% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
30
503 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
36%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where West Chinnock’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.

30 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*30 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.

What’s protected

The largest group of West Chinnock’s listed buildings is homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas12
Churches, chapels & priories10
Walls, gates & bridges3
Public & civic buildings2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Street furniture1
Inns, shops & warehouses1

12 entries (40%) 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.

Grade II

30 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 30 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 35% of West Chinnock

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

West Chinnock 197610 ha
10 hain conservation areas, of 28 ha inside the built-up area.

29 of the 30 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 West Chinnock’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984

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

1984 · 171961 · 10
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 10 entries were listed in 1961. 17 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

36% of West Chinnock’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

35%
Before 1900
0.7%
1900–18
1.1%
1919–29
7.5%
1930s
9%
1945–54
4.5%
1955–64
13%
1965–72
9.3%
1973–82
6.3%
1983–92
3.7%
1993–99
7.1%
2000–08
0.7%
2009–15
1.9%
2016–25
West ChinnockEngland & Wales

35% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 13% 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 (10 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around West Chinnock

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
West Chinnock596300—
Merriott2,068580A
Stoke sub Hamdon1,360371A+
Crewkerne7,0671651A
South Petherton3,096641A
Misterton1,037140B
Martock4,0791622A
Yeovil50,1701313B−
In brief

West Chinnock in brief

More of West Chinnock’s homes are old than in most places: 36% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 30 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1984: 17 of 30.

Questions about West Chinnock’s history

How many listed buildings are there in West Chinnock?

Historic England lists 30 buildings inside West Chinnock’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 30 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in West Chinnock?

1, covering about 10 hectares of the town. The largest is West Chinnock.

When were West Chinnock’s buildings listed?

The first in 1961; the most, 17, in 1984.

How old are the homes in West Chinnock?

36% of homes were built before 1919 and 44% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

West Chinnock has no History Grade.

© 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.