123 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Reigate PrioryGrade I listedBrowne's LodgeGrade II* listedYe Old ForgeGrade II listedCastle CottageGrade II listedThe Bull's Head InnGrade II listed+10See all photos

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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 Street15 listed

Bell Street12 listed · 1 II*

West Street3 listed

Of the 123 entries, 42 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, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 64 came in 1977, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 5 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 scheduled monuments

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

MedievalMedieval undercroft between West Street and Slipshoe Street, Reigate

Reigate Castle

The Priory, Reigate

2 registered parks and gardens

Lower Gatton ParkGrade II

Reigate PrioryGrade 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.

22% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 12% of today’s homes.

Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (229 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

James Cocks

James Nightingale

Louis John Steele

Walter Read

Florence Steele

George Neale

Anne Cummins

Gerald Linnell

Harry Budgen

Alexander Carr-Saunders

John Gordon

Vera Anstey

Owen Hughes

Philip Le Gros

Montagu Brocas Burrows

James Scaramanga

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Walter Read1855–1907 · English cricket player (1855-1907)

MB

Montagu Brocas Burrows1894–1967 · British Army general, 1894-1967

Louis John Steele1842–1918 · New Zealand artist and engraver (1842-1918)

FS

Florence Steele1857–1948 · English artist

AC

Alexander Carr-Saunders1886–1966 · British sociologist and biologist (1886–1966)

JG

John Gordon1886–1933 · English cricketer, born 1886

VA

Vera Anstey1889–1976 · British economist (1889–1976)

JN

James Nightingale1840–1917 · English cricketer (1840-1917)

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

More of Reigate’s homes are old than in most places: 27% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 123 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Reigate Priory. Only 98 of the 424 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On High Street alone there are 15 listed buildings.

Its older streets lie in 8 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973. Of the whole list, 70% are houses, terraces and villas. Walter Read (1855), Montagu Brocas Burrows (1894) and Louis John Steele (1842) are among the 16 people born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 3 scheduled monuments.