Malt House · Photo: Jo Turner · CC BY-SA 2.0

History of Alcester · Historic England

121 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Alcester’s built-up area, 188 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 9 of its listed buildings. 15% of its homes were built before 1919. Alcester grades A− for history: #3 of 34 in Warwickshire.

2Grade I 5Grade II*2scheduled monuments 24on High Street

Listed buildings

121

188 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

15%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Alcester in 9 photos

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Town HallGrade I listed

Church of St NicholasGrade II* listed

Lord Nelson InnGrade II listed

Gunnings BridgeGrade II listed

Baptist ChurchGrade II listed+4See 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.

The map

Where Alcester’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.

Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument

Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+

0 of 5neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 34% were built before 1919.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

121 listed buildings by grade

2 Grade I5 Grade II*114 Grade II

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).

Grade I

The 2 Grade I listed buildings in Alcester

Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Public · listed 1956Town HallPhoto: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1969Malt HousePhoto: Jo Turner · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The 5 Grade II* listed buildings in Alcester

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 4 are photographed.

Church · listed 1967Church of St NicholasPhoto: Keith D · CC BY-SA 4.0

House · listed 1967Churchill HousePhoto: Colin Craig · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 19692 Malt Mill LanePhoto: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 19695 and 7 Malt Mill LanePhoto: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 19679 and 9A, High Street

Historic streets

High Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

High Street24 listed · 1 II*

Malt Mill Lane9 listed · 2 II*

Henley Street8 listed

Church Street6 listed

Butter Street5 listed

Priory Road5 listed

Evesham Street4 listed

Swan Street3 listed

Of the 121 entries, 69 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Alcester’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas95

Inns, shops & warehouses10

Churches, chapels & priories8

Walls, gates & bridges3

Public & civic buildings3

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

Street furniture1

95 entries (79%) are houses, terraces and villas. 8 are churches, chapels and priories.

Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.

Grade II

114 Grade II listed buildings

Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.

All 114 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Acorn House, Attached Coach House and Walls Alcester Unionist Club Alcester War Memorial Angel House Arden House Arrow Cottage Arrow House Baptist Church Bays Cottage Beauchamp Court Building 20 metres to rear of No.18 Church Street Building 3 Metres to Rear of Numbers 4, 6 and 8 Castle House Church House Churchyard Wall and Gatepiers to Church of St Nicholas Cottage to Rear of Number 15 High St Country Fare Swan Hotel Dog and Partridge Public House Gresley House Greyhound House Gunnings Bridge Hardwick House K6 Telephone Kiosk Lloyds Bank Lord Nelson Inn Midland Bank Minerva Needle Works Mona Villa Oak House Old Baptist Meeting House Oversley House Priory Cottage Priory House Red Horse House Red Horse Stables Roebuck Inn Rose and Crown House Royal Oak Inn Talbot Cottage The Bear Hotel The Holly Bush Hotel The Limes The New Inn The Priory The Rectory Tudor House Turks Head Crafts Victoria House West View Yew Trees 1 Church Street and Windsor House 1, Butter Street 1-5, Henley Street 10 Church Street and Attached Area Railings 10 High Street 10 and 12 Malt Mill Lane 11 Swan Street 11, 11A and 13 High Street 11, Butter Street 12 High Street 12 and 14, Evesham Street 13 Swan Street 13-17 Church Street 14 High Street 14-18 Malt Mill Lane 15 High Street 16 and 18 High Street 17 and 19 Bleachfield Street 17 and 19 High Street 17, Evesham Street 18 and 20, Evesham Street 19, Henley Street 2 High Street 2 and 3 Church Street 2 and 4, Butter Street 20 and 21 Church Street 20-28 Malt Mill Lane 21 High Street 21 and 23, Henley Street 25 and 27 High Street 26 High Street 29 High Street 3-7, Butter Street 3-7, High Street 30 High Street 31 High Street 32 High Street 32 and 34, Henley Street 33-37 High Street 36 and 38, Henley Street 4 and 8 Malt Mill Lane 40, 42 and 42A, Henley Street 41 Malt Mill Lane 42 High Street 43 and 45 Priory Road 44, Henley Street 45-53 High Street 46, Henley Street 47-51 Priory Road 5 Church Street 53 and 55 Priory Road 57 High Street 57 Priory Road 59 High Street 6 and 8 Malt Mill Lane 6, Church Street 61-67 High Street 7 and 9 Swan Street 7 and 9, Butter Street 71-77 Priory Road 8 High Street 8 and 10 Bleachfield Street 8 and 10, Evesham Street 8 and 10, Seggs Lane 9 Church Street 9 and 11 Malt Mill Lane

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 100% of Alcester

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

No data available for publication by HE219 ha

219 hain conservation areas, of 219 ha inside the built-up area.

121 of the 121 listed buildings stand in one.

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.

How the list grew

56 of Alcester’s 121 listed buildings were added in 1967

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1967 · 561969 · 471985 · 14

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The first 1 entry was listed in 1956, 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 56 came in 1967. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

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.

Alcester Abbey

RomanRoman town

History Grade

Alcester grades A− for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (134 points, 209 per 10,000 residents)More than 88% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (15%)More than 45% of UK towns

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.

Born here

6 notable people born in Alcester before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Richard Waldron

Edward Scriven

Frederick George Jackson

Tom Wilkes

Francis James Davies

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Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke1554–1628 · English politician (1554-1628)

Frederick George Jackson1860–1938 · British polar explorer (1860–1938)

Edward Scriven1775–1841 · British engraver (1775-1841)

Tom Wilkes1874–1921 · English footballer (1874-1921)

Richard Waldron1615–1689 · Colonial settler, acting President of the Province of New Hampshire

Francis James Davies1889–1941 · British flying ace

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

Towns its size

Alcester has the 46th most Grade I buildings of 848 towns its size

Places of 4,000–10,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Alcester2

#80 of 848for listed buildings per resident (188 per 10,000). Sandwich, Tenby and Brecon lead.

45 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Alcester

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Alcester	6,425	121	2	A⁻
Studley	6,039	15	0	C⁺
Bidford-on-Avon	5,825	24	0	C⁺
Astwood Bank	3,248	7	0	C⁺
Inkberrow	1,817	23	1	B⁻
Welford-on-Avon	1,692	71	2	A⁺
Redditch	81,634	44	0	C
Harvington	1,717	20	1	B⁺

In brief

Alcester in brief

Per resident, Alcester has more listed heritage than 88% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 121 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I, including Town Hall. Only 45 of the 848 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On High Street alone there are 24 listed buildings.

A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554), Frederick George Jackson (1860) and Edward Scriven (1775) are among the 6 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: it also has 2 scheduled monuments; and 15% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Alcester’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Alcester?

Historic England lists 121 buildings inside Alcester’s built-up area: 2 Grade I, 5 Grade II* and 114 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Alcester?

2, including Malt House and Town Hall.

Which street in Alcester has the most listed buildings?

High Street (24), Malt Mill Lane (9) and Henley Street (8) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Alcester?

Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Alcester Abbey and Roman town.

How many conservation areas are there in Alcester?

1, covering about 219 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.

When were Alcester’s buildings listed?

The first in 1956; the most, 56, in 1967.

Who was born in Alcester?

Among people born before 1900: Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554), Frederick George Jackson (1860), Edward Scriven (1775), Tom Wilkes (1874) and Richard Waldron (1615).

How old are the homes in Alcester?

15% of homes were built before 1919 and 20% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

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Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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