97 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

Church of St PeterGrade I listedWhitfield CourtGrade II* listedThe Cricketers Public HouseGrade II listedWoking Signal Box, Woking Station at West End of Platforms 2 and 3Grade II listedWhopshott FarmGrade II listed+5See 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.

1903

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 15 entries were listed in 1953, 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 50 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 6 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 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.

Bell barrow on Horsell Common immediately east of Monument Road

Goldsworth or Langman's Bridge, Basingstoke Canal

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.

Samuel Morton Peto

Joseph Tilley Brown

Perceval Maitland Laurence

Edith Coleman

Mary Ursula Bethell

Richard Raymond Willis

Verner Luckin

Laurence Hartnett

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Samuel Morton Peto1809–1889 · British politician, building contractor, railway contractor (1809-188…

Edith Coleman1874–1951 · Australian naturalist, botanist, ornithologist and school teacher (18…

Mary Ursula Bethell1874–1945 · New Zealand social worker and poet

Joseph Tilley Brown1844–1925 · Australian politician

VL

Verner Luckin1892–1931 · English cricketer (1892-1931)

PL

Perceval Maitland Laurence1854–1930 · Lawyer (1854-1930)

Richard Raymond Willis1876–1966 · British military hero (1876-1966)

LH

Laurence Hartnett1898–1986 · Australian businessman

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

The official list counts 97 listed buildings in Woking, 2 of them Grade I, including Shah Jahan Mosque. Its older streets lie in 14 conservation areas. Most entries on the list, 69%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Samuel Morton Peto (1809), Edith Coleman (1874) and Mary Ursula Bethell (1874) are among the 8 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1984, when 50 of the 97 went on the list. The rest is about typical: it has 2 Grade I buildings, about typical for a town its size (the middle one has 2); per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.