83 listed buildings, 7 of them Grade II*

NewtonsGrade II* listedWorlebury Camp, a large multivallate hillfort and the linear earthworks to the eastScheduled monumentToll House LodgeGrade II listedThe Town Crier Public HouseGrade II listedThe Town HallGrade II listed+14See all photos

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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).

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 4 entries were listed in 1953. 47 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 7 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Motte at Castle Batch

Worlebury Camp, a large multivallate hillfort and the linear earthworks to the east

1 registered park or garden

Grove 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.

19% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 12% 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 (214 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Charles Algernon Lewis

Esmé Collings

Keturah Anne Collings

Augustus Edward Hough Love

Edward Alfred Minchin

Ernest Edwin Philip Truman

Walter Bunch

Robert Porch

Julian L'Estrange

Henry Edwards

A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough

Thomas Thould

Charles Bartlett

Edwin Percy Baker

Arthur H. Millier

Arthur Gibbs

Edith Ditmas

Leonard Stanton Jefferies

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Augustus Edward Hough Love1863–1940 · English mathematician (1863–1940)

Henry Edwards1882–1952 · British actor, film director (1882-1952)

A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough1885–1965 · British Labour Co-operative politician (1885-1965)

TT

Thomas Thould1886–1971 · British water polo player (1886–1971)

ED

Edith Ditmas1896–1986 · Archivist, historian, and writer

Edward Alfred Minchin1866–1915 · British biologist (1866–1915)

WB

Walter Bunch1872–1937 · British footballer (1872-1937)

Julian L'Estrange1880–1918 · British actor (1880-1918)

Everyone born in Weston-super-Mare → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Old houses are part of Weston-super-Mare’s character: 23% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 83 listed buildings, including Old Church of St Nicholas, Uphill. Its older streets lie in 4 conservation areas, the first designated in 1981. Most entries on the list, 58%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863), Henry Edwards (1882) and A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough (1885) are among the 18 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1983, when 47 of the 83 went on the list. The rest is about typical: it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 2; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.