II*Public · listed 1974Chamberlaine's AlmshousesPhoto: Keith D · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chamberlaine's Almshouses · Photo: Keith D · CC BY-SA 3.0DHistory Grade
History of Bedworth · Historic England
8 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Bedworth’s built-up area, 2.6 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 6 of Bedworth’s listed buildings. 8.8% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings. Bedworth grades D for history: #28 of 34 in Warwickshire.
Listed buildings
8
2.6 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
8.8%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Bedworth in 5 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of All SaintsGrade II* listed
Water TowerGrade II listed
Bedworth Cemetery (Coventry Road Cemetery)Grade II park or garden
Old Meeting United Reformed ChurchGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos 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 Bedworth’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade II*Park or garden
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 21neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 42% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
8 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*6 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 II*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Bedworth
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*Church · listed 1949Church of All SaintsPhoto: Peter Mackenzie · CC BY-SA 2.0
Grade II
6 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.
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 1.4% of Bedworth
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Bedworth Town Centre 198810 ha
10 hain conservation areas, of 704 ha inside the built-up area.
6 of the 8 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.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
History Grade
Bedworth grades D for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (11 points, 4 per 10,000 residents)More than 22% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (8.8%)More than 21% 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.
Homes by age
8.8% of Bedworth’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
3.9%
Before 1900
4.9%
1900–18
3.3%
1919–29
8.6%
1930s
12%
1945–54
12%
1955–64
21%
1965–72
9%
1973–82
7.1%
1983–92
3.5%
1993–99
8%
2000–08
2.6%
2009–15
3.9%
2016–25
BedworthEngland & Wales
3.9% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 21% of today’s homes.
Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (62 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
3 notable people born in Bedworth before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Joseph Richards
William Hall
Harry Kent
18501875190019251950
HK
Harry Kent1879–1948 · Football player and manager (1879-1948)
WH
William Hall1878– · Cricketer (1878-?)
JR
Joseph Richards1868– · English rugby union player
Everyone born in Bedworth → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
How Bedworth compares with 338 towns its size
Places of 19,000–50,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Bedworth0
#320 of 338for listed buildings per resident (3 per 10,000). Stamford, Bury St Edmunds and Devizes lead.
170 have more. The typical town its size has 1.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bedworth
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedworth | 31,083 | 8 | 0 | D |
| Hawkesbury | 2,288 | 7 | 0 | C− |
| Ash Green | 2,562 | 7 | 0 | C− |
| Bermuda | 2,071 | 5 | 0 | C− |
| Keresley Newlands | 3,631 | 1 | 0 | D− |
| Bulkington | 5,670 | 6 | 0 | D |
| Nuneaton | 88,818 | 29 | 1 | C |
| New Arley | 1,666 | 0 | 0 | D |
In brief
Bedworth in brief
Bedworth has 8 listed buildings, including Chamberlaine's Almshouses. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1988. Harry Kent (1879), William Hall (1878) and Joseph Richards (1868) were all born here before 1900. Its homes are mostly newer: 8.8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 22% of UK towns. Most towns its size have more Grade I buildings: the typical one has 1. The rest is about typical: the list grew between 1949 and 1988.
Questions about Bedworth’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bedworth?
Historic England lists 8 buildings inside Bedworth’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 6 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Bedworth?
1, covering about 10 hectares of the town. The largest is Bedworth Town Centre.
Who was born in Bedworth?
Among people born before 1900: Harry Kent (1879), William Hall (1878) and Joseph Richards (1868).
How old are the homes in Bedworth?
8.8% of homes were built before 1919 and 21% 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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