131 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Church of St John the BaptistGrade I listedAbbey BarnGrade I listedHendford ManorGrade II* listedThe Old Police StationGrade II listedQuicksilver Mail, Public HouseGrade II listed+3See 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 131 entries, 34 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 14 entries were listed in 1951, 3 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 77 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 4 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

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

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.

George Glyde

Walter Adams

Charles Marshallsay

Henry Edward McCallum

Edwin Seward

Albert Fudge

Elisabeth Chant

Ernest Petter

Henry James Knight

George Roland Whitby

Alfred Pippard

Flora Twort

Lionel Whitby

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AP

Alfred Pippard1891–1969 · British engineer

Henry Edward McCallum1852–1919 · Colonial governor (1852-1919)

EC

Elisabeth Chant1865–1947 · American painter

LW

Lionel Whitby1895–1956 · British hematologist (1895-1956)

George Glyde1821–1898 · Australian politician

Walter Adams1830–1892 · Australian politician, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly …

ES

Edwin Seward1853–1924 · British architect

Henry James Knight1878–1955 · English military officer (1878–1955); recipient of the Victoria Cross

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

The official list counts 131 listed buildings in Yeovil, 3 of them Grade I, including Church of St John the Baptist. Only 35 of the 218 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On Princes Street alone there are 13 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 4 conservation areas, the first designated in 1983.

Alfred Pippard (1891), Henry Edward McCallum (1852) and Elisabeth Chant (1865) are among the 13 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1983, when 77 of the 131 went on the list. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has a scheduled monument; and 11% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.