64 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Former Railway Station Building at Atherstone StationGrade II listedMerevale HallGrade II* park or gardenDee Boutique the Three Tuns Public HouseGrade II listedIndependent Chapel and Attached Sunday SchoolGrade II listedBank HouseGrade 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.

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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).

Of the 64 entries, 26 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 1 entry was listed in 1951. 23 came in 1988, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

Merevale HallGrade 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.

Alfred Bourne

Phoebe Sheavyn

Thomas Stanton

Charlie Wilson

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Alfred Bourne1848–1931 · English cricketer (1848-1931)

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Phoebe Sheavyn1865–1968 · (1865–1968),British literary scholar and feminist

Thomas Stanton1865–1931 · British mechanical engineer and aerodynamicist

CW

Charlie Wilson1895–1971 · English footballer (1895-1971)

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

Atherstone has 64 listed buildings, including St. Mary's Church. On Long Street alone there are 15 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1994.

Most entries on the list, 59%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 4 people born here before 1900, the best known include Alfred Bourne (1848), Phoebe Sheavyn (1865) and Thomas Stanton (1865). The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 19% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.