No 7 (Priors House) and No 7A (Dental Surgery) · Photo: RobJN · CC0

History of Wincanton · Historic England

113 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Historic England counts them inside Wincanton’s built-up area, 168 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 108 of Wincanton’s listed buildings. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 12% of its homes were built before 1919. Wincanton grades A− for history: #19 of 49 in Somerset.

1Grade I 4Grade II*24on High Street

Listed buildings

113

168 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

12%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Wincanton in 6 photos

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Church of St Peter and St PaulGrade II* listed

Balsam HouseGrade II* listed

Former Post OfficeGrade II listed

Dolphin HotelGrade II listed

Midland BankGrade 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.

The map

Where Wincanton’s history is

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

Grade IGrade II*

Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+

0 of 4neighbourhoods 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.

113 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I4 Grade II*108 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 Wincanton

Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

House · listed 1961The Dogs

Grade II*

The 4 Grade II* listed buildings in Wincanton

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 3 are photographed.

Church · listed 1961Church of St Peter and St PaulPhoto: Chris Downer · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1961Dental Surgery Priors HouseOn the list as No 7 (Priors House) and No 7A (Dental Surgery)Photo: RobJN · CC0

House · listed 1961Balsam HousePhoto: Angus hart · CC BY-SA 3.0

Inns & shops · listed 1961White Horse Hotel

Historic streets

High Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

High Street24 listed

Mill Street10 listed

Market Place7 listed

Of the 113 entries, 46 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Wincanton’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas71

Walls, gates & bridges15

Inns, shops & warehouses9

Public & civic buildings7

Churches, chapels & priories7

Street furniture3

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

71 entries (63%) are houses, terraces and villas. 7 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

108 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 108 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Albion House Arch Containing Spring and Washing Place Ash House Batch House Bayford Post Office Bellfields Boundary Wall, Railings, Gate Piers and Gates, 25 Metres South of West Hill House Canton Cafe Cottage Between Bayford Post Office and Hope Cottage Dial House Dolphin Hotel East Gate Entrance Gates and Return Railings to Western Corner of Cash's Park Former Congregational Church Former Congregational Church Hall and Rooms Former Congregational Church Schoolrooms, And Boundary Railings 2 Metres South of Church Former Police Station Former Post Office Front Boundary Wall, Railings and Gate, 6 Metres East of St Audrey's Hope Cottage Ivy House with Front Boundary Railings, 4 Metres North West Jewell's House Lawrence House, Including Outbuilding 6M to Its West Lodge Farmhouse Midland Bank Milestone at Ngr St 7270 2917 No 18, With the Railings Attached to Front No 23 (Rockhill House), With Walls Enclosing Garden to North East No 24A (Thursday Cottage) Between Nos 22 and 24 Mill Street Thursday Cottage No 5 (Incorporating No 2 Church Street)Nos 1 and 2 Colyton Terrace, With Boundary Wall 8 Metres to South Old St Audreys Pair Gate Piers, 20 Metres South West of Ireson House Pine House, To Rear of No 26 High Street (Not Listed)Priory of St Luke and St Teresa Red Lion Public House Rodber House with Gates Attached to South East Corner Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery of St Luke and St Teresa St Anne and St Teresa's St Audrey's The Bear Inn The Churchyard Gates and Boundary Walls to North and West, Church of St Peter and St Paul The Coachman's Cottage, 20 Metres South East of the Dogs The Former Cottage 15 Metres South of the Dogs The Garden House, 50 Metres East of Ireson House, And Flanking Brick Wall The Garden House, 50 Metres North of No 7, And Attached Wall The George Inn The Nathaniel Ireson Monument, 4 Metres South East of Chancel, Churchyard of St Peter and St Paul The Nog Inn The Rectory, With the Boundary Wall 8 Metres to South The South Boundary Railings and Gates to Baptist Chapel, On South East Corner of No 6 Mill Street The Stables Etc, 30 Metres East of Tout Hill House The Thomas Memorial, 22 Metres East of Chancel in Churchyard, Church of St Peter and St Paul The Walling Enclosing Patio on South Side of Balsam House The West Boundary Wall and Entrance Gateway, 8 Metres Fron Tout Hill House Tout Hill House Town Hall Uncle Tom's Cabin Public House Verrington Farmhouse Verrington Lodge West Hill House Wincanton Post Office 1 and 3, High Street 1, Church Street 10 Flingers Lane and Associated Outbuildings 10, Market Place 10, North Street 11, 13, 15 and 17, North Street 11, Market Place 11, Mill Street 12, High Street 13, Market Place 14, High Street 14, Mill Street 15, Mill Street 16 and 17, Market Place 16, High Street 17 and 19, Mill Street 17, High Street 18, High Street 19, High Street 2, High Street 2, Mill Street 20, Mill Street 21 and 23, High Street 22, High Street 22, Mill Street 24, High Street 24, Mill Street 25 and 27, Mill Street 3 and 5, Church Street 30 and 32, High Street 4, Market Place 41, High Street 46, High Street 5, High Street 53 and 55, High Street 56 and 58, High Street 57, High Street 59, High Street 6, High Street 6, Mill Street 69, High Street 7 and 8, Market Place 7, High Street 71, High Street 8, High Street 9, Market Place

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 12% of Wincanton

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

Wincanton 198825 ha

25 hain conservation areas, of 220 ha inside the built-up area.

99 of the 113 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 Wincanton’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985

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

1985 · 731961 · 30

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 30 entries were listed in 1961, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 73 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Wincanton grades A− for history

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

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (119 points, 176 per 10,000 residents)More than 86% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (12%)More than 34% 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.

Towns its size

Wincanton has the 86th most Grade I buildings of 815 towns its size

Places of 4,000–11,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Wincanton1

#88 of 815for listed buildings per resident (168 per 10,000). Sandwich, Tenby and Brecon lead.

85 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Wincanton

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Wincanton	6,744	113	1	A⁻
Templecombe	1,657	15	0	B⁺
Bruton	2,816	132	3	A⁺
Castle Cary	3,451	100	0	A
Henstridge	1,579	16	0	B⁺
Gillingham	11,009	41	1	B⁻
Milborne Port	3,207	69	1	A
Mere	2,808	71	1	A⁺

In brief

Wincanton in brief

Per resident, Wincanton has more listed heritage than 86% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 113 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Peter and St Paul. Only 85 of the 815 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. High Street alone has 24 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1988. Of the whole list, 63% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1985: 73 of 113. Beyond that, Mosley Mayne (1889) was born here before 1900; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Wincanton’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Wincanton?

Historic England lists 113 buildings inside Wincanton’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 4 Grade II* and 108 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Wincanton?

One: The Dogs.

Which street in Wincanton has the most listed buildings?

High Street (24), Mill Street (10) and Market Place (7) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Wincanton?

1, covering about 25 hectares of the town. The largest is Wincanton.

When were Wincanton’s buildings listed?

The first in 1961; the most, 73, in 1985.

How old are the homes in Wincanton?

12% of homes were built before 1919 and 19% 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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