194 listed buildings, 16 of them Grade II*

Parish Church of St MartinGrade II* listedThe DurdansGrade II* listedWater Tower at Ebba's HospitalGrade II listedMarquis of Granby Public HouseGrade II listedFormer Bugby ChapelGrade II listed+8See 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.

1900s

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).

High Street18 listed · 2 II*

South Street8 listed

Chalk Lane5 listed

West Street5 listed

Church Street4 listed

College Road4 listed

East Street4 listed

West Hill4 listed

Woodcote Side3 listed

Of the 194 entries, 78 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 37 entries were listed in 1954. 119 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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 Bright

Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore

Barton Bouchier

Harry Hill

George Northey

George Alexander

William Charman

Edgar Giberne

Ernest Still

Isabel Giberne Sieveking

Alice Laura Embleton

Herbert Jones

Alfred Townsend Bucknill

Peggy Crewe-Milnes, Marchioness of Crewe

James Chuter Ede

Frederick Peake

Isabella Potbury

Ralph Bouverie Deedes

William Henry David Birch

James Thompson

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Frederick Peake1886–1970 · British Army officer and police officer (1886–1970)

Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore1731–1771 · Proprietor of Maryland (1731–1771)

AE

Alice Laura Embleton1876–1960 · British biologist and zoologist

IP

Isabella Potbury1890–1965 · British portrait painter and militant suffragette

James Chuter Ede1882–1965 · British Labour politician (1882–1965)

GA

George Alexander1842–1913 · English cricketer (1842-1913)

WC

William Charman1850–1924 · Cricketer (1850-1924)

Peggy Crewe-Milnes, Marchioness of Crewe1881–1967 · British political hostess and Justice of the Peace

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

Measured per resident, Epsom has more listed heritage than 76% of UK towns. In all there are 194 listed buildings, including Parish Church of St Martin. On High Street alone there are 18 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 18 conservation areas, the first designated in 1971.

Most entries on the list, 69%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 25 people born here before 1900, the best known include Frederick Peake (1886), Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore (1731) and Alice Laura Embleton (1876). The big year was 1974, when 119 of the 194 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it has no Grade I building, where the middle town its size has 1; and 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.