96 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade II*

Chertsey Abbey: a Benedictine monastery on the banks of Abbey RiverScheduled monumentChurch of St PeterGrade II* listedGeorge InnGrade II listedTown HallGrade II listedYork House and York PlaceGrade II listed+5See 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.

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Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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 96 entries, 47 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 22 entries were listed in 1951. 61 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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.

Chertsey Abbey: a Benedictine monastery on the banks of Abbey River

2 registered parks and gardens

St Ann's Hill and the DingleGrade II

Woburn FarmGrade 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.

William Yalden

Charles Cooper Henderson

Albert Richard Smith

Elizabeth Dayton

Frederick Mills

Bill Beach

Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen

Wilfred Milne

Margaret Longhurst

Percy May

Arthur Fagan

Henry Grierson

Sir Christopher Peto, 3rd Baronet

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Albert Richard Smith1816–1860 · British writer (1816–1860)

Charles Cooper Henderson1803–1877 · Painter of coaches (1803-1877)

Bill Beach1850–1935 · Australian professional sculler (1850—1935)

Percy May1884–1965 · English cricketer (1884-1965)

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William Yalden1740–1824 · English cricketer (1740-1824)

Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen1851–1919 · British lawyer and judge (1851-1919)

SB

Sir Christopher Peto, 3rd Baronet1897–1980 · British politician (1897-1980)

WM

Wilfred Milne1857–1919 · English tennis player (born 1857)

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

Chertsey has 96 listed buildings, including Chertsey Abbey: a Benedictine monastery on the banks of Abbey River. Guildford Street alone has 17 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 73%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Of the 13 people born here before 1900, the best known include Albert Richard Smith (1816), Charles Cooper Henderson (1803) and Bill Beach (1850). The big year was 1972, when 61 of the 96 went on the list. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.