57 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade II*

Church of St MaryGrade II* listedRemains of Bridge on River Thames Towpath (South Bank)Grade II listedStaines Town HallGrade II listedThe Oast HouseGrade II listedLock-Keeper's Cottage at Penton Hook Lodge)Grade 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.

c. 1820

c. 1820

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).

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 7 entries were listed in 1951. 19 came in 1982, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 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.

Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont

George Gammon Adams

Maria Brooks

Cecil Harcourt Smith

William Furse

Vincent Warren Low

Thomas Ashby

Harry Freeman

Bill Montgomery

William Oke Manning

Stella Langdale

E. L. Grant Watson

Jack Nicholas

Dick Mitchison, Baron Mitchison

Harry Gosford Reeves

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Harry Freeman1876–1968 · Field hockey player (1876–1968)

Thomas Ashby1874–1931 · British historian, archaeologist, and former director of the British …

Cecil Harcourt Smith1859–1944 · British archaeologist (1859–1944)

E. L. Grant Watson1885–1970 · American biologist and writer (1885-1970)

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Dick Mitchison, Baron Mitchison1890–1970 · British politician (1894–1970)

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Maria Brooks1837–1913 · American painter (1837-1913)

William Furse1865–1953 · British Army general

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Bill Montgomery1878–1952 · English cricketer (1878-1952)

Everyone born in Staines-upon-Thames → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

The official list counts 57 listed buildings in Staines-upon-Thames, including St Mary's, Staines. Its older streets lie in 4 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970. Most entries on the list, 63%, are houses, terraces and villas. Harry Freeman (1876), Thomas Ashby (1874) and Cecil Harcourt Smith (1859) are among the 15 people born here before 1900. 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.