85 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Thames View (Former Home of Compassion)Grade II* listedHenry Bridge's AlmshousesGrade II* listedThe Angel Public HouseGrade II listedPicton HouseGrade II listedLong Ditton Memorial CrossGrade II listed+2See 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 19 entries were listed in 1953. 27 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 8 have 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.

Nathaniel Byfield

William FitzGerald-de Ros, 22nd Baron de Ros

Henry Smith

Fleetwood Edwards

Frederick Buckle

Frederick Read

Robert Scallon

Maurice Read

Matthew Baines

Charles Frewen Jenkin

Thorold Gosset

Edith Johnson

George Carver

Charles Heslop

Trevor Bowring

Eveline Winifred Syme

Helene Warne

Bernard Leete

Ronald Brooks

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William FitzGerald-de Ros, 22nd Baron de Ros1797–1874 · British Army general (1797–1874)

Fleetwood Edwards1842–1910 · English army officer and cricketer (1842-1910)

Maurice Read1859–1929 · Cricket player of England. (1859-1929)

TG

Thorold Gosset1869–1962 · British mathematician

CJ

Charles Frewen Jenkin1865–1940 · British engineer and academic (1865–1940)

GC

George Carver1879–1912 · English cricketer (1879-1912)

RB

Ronald Brooks1899–1980 · Cricketer (1899-1980)

FB

Frederick Buckle1849–1884 · Cricketer (1849-1884)

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

The official list counts 85 listed buildings in West Molesey, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St. Nicholas, Thames Ditton. Its older streets lie in 9 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973. Of the whole list, 55% are houses, terraces and villas. William FitzGerald-de Ros, 22nd Baron de Ros (1797), Fleetwood Edwards (1842) and Maurice Read (1859) are among the 19 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, it has one Grade I building, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 1); 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.