64 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Commonwealth Air Forces MemorialGrade II* listedChurch of Saint John the BaptistGrade II* listedTower Service StationGrade II listedKings ArmsGrade II listedThe MewsGrade II listed+4See 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).

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 1951. 44 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

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.

Frederick James Furnivall

Hugh Reginald Haweis

Walter Coxen

George Giffard

Reginald Brie

Edwin Herbert, Baron Tangley

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Frederick James Furnivall1825–1910 · English lexicographer (1825–1910)

George Giffard1886–1964 · British Army general

Hugh Reginald Haweis1838–1901 · British writer (1838–1901)

Walter Coxen1870–1949 · Australian general

ET

Edwin Herbert, Baron Tangley1899–1973 · British lawyer and mountaineer (1899-1973)

RB

Reginald Brie1895–1988 · British test pilot

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

Egham has 64 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Founder's Building. Only 81 of the 355 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On High Street alone there are 12 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1993.

Most entries on the list, 61%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 6 people born here before 1900, the best known include Frederick James Furnivall (1825), George Giffard (1886) and Hugh Reginald Haweis (1838). The big year was 1986, when 44 of the 64 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 18% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.