The Swan Hotel · Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0

History of Coleshill · Historic England

55 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Coleshill’s built-up area, 82 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 5.3% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. Coleshill grades B− for history: #16 of 34 in Warwickshire.

1Grade I 1scheduled monument 23on High Street

Listed buildings

82 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

5.3%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Coleshill in 6 photos

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

Church of St Peter and St PaulGrade I listed

Coleshill BridgeScheduled monument

The Old SchoolGrade II listed

Wheeley Moor FarmhouseGrade II listed

Laburnam HouseGrade II listed+1See 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 Coleshill’s history is

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

Grade IScheduled monument

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

0 of 4neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.

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

55 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I0 Grade II*54 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 Grade I listed building in Coleshill

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.

Church · listed 1961Church of St Peter and St PaulPhoto: Mark Walton · CC BY-SA 2.0

What’s protected

Most of Coleshill’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas38

Public & civic buildings6

Churches, chapels & priories6

Inns, shops & warehouses4

Street furniture1

38 entries (69%) are houses, terraces and villas. 6 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.

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

54 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 54 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Barn Approximately 20 Metres South East of Dunton Hall Cameo Cottage Chantry House Chest Tomb Approximately 5 Metres North East of Chancel of Church of St Peter and St Paul Cross Approximately 5 Metres South of South Porch of Church of St Peter and St Paul Devereaux House Dunton Hall Fair View Ferndale House First World War Memorial Approximately 25 Metres North of Church of St Peter and St Paul Laburnam House Mews House Old Bank House Nantille House No. 95 High Street Park Cottage Pigeonhouse Approximately 30 Metres West of Dunton Hall Pillory and Whipping Post Immediately South of Numbers 1 and 3 Pound Cottage Public Library Queen Anne House and Attached Railings Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart and St Teresa, and two pairs of gatepiers St Andrew's The Arches The Coach Hotel The Green Man Public House The Old Grammar School The Old School The Swan Hotel Wheeley Moor Farmhouse 1 and 3, Church Hill 1, High Street 104 and 106, High Street 105, High Street 107 and 109, High Street 108 and 110, High Street 111, High Street 112A and 112B, High Street 113, High Street 118 and 120, High Street 119, High Street 122 and 124, High Street 132 High Street 134 and 136, High Street 137 and 139, High Street 138 and 140, High Street 143, High Street 148, High Street 156, High Street 37, High Street 69, Coventry Road 74 and 76, High Street 80 and 82, High Street 88 and 90, High Street 92 and 94, High Street

Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 4.4% of Coleshill

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

Coleshill 196916 ha

Coventry Road, Coleshill 199512 ha

28 hain conservation areas, of 628 ha inside the built-up area.

The first, Coleshill, was designated in 1969; the newest, Coventry Road, Coleshill, in 1995. 48 of the 55 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

27 of Coleshill’s 55 listed buildings were added in 1952

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

1952 · 271989 · 19

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The first 27 entries were listed in 1952. 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.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Coleshill Bridge

History Grade

Coleshill grades B− for history

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

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (59 points, 87 per 10,000 residents)More than 72% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (5.3%)More than 10% 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

5.3% of Coleshill’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

4.6%

Before 1900

0.6%

1900–18

1919–29

5.8%

1930s

1.2%

1945–54

32%

1955–64

12%

1965–72

12%

1973–82

5.5%

1983–92

7.4%

1993–99

5.1%

2000–08

2009–15

4.3%

2016–25

ColeshillEngland & Wales

4.6% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 32% 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 (29 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Born here

3 notable people born in Coleshill before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

John Henry Wynne

George Lloyd

John Lynes

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John Henry Wynne1819–1893 · (1819-1893)

John Lynes1872– · Cricketer (1872-?)

George Lloyd1820–1885 · Anglican curate and archaeologist

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

Towns its size

Coleshill has the 86th most Grade I buildings of 815 towns its size

Places of 4,000–11,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Coleshill1

#189 of 815for listed buildings per resident (82 per 10,000). Sandwich, Tenby and Brecon lead.

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Coleshill

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Coleshill	6,744	55	1	B⁻
Water Orton	3,484	4	0	D
Curdworth	1,146	5	0	C⁺
Kingsbury	3,555	6	0	C⁻
Meriden	2,203	23	0	B⁻
Hampton in Arden	1,867	24	1	A⁻
Hurley	1,420	3	0	D
New Arley	1,666	0	0	D

In brief

Coleshill in brief

Coleshill has 55 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Peter and St Paul. Only 85 of the 815 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. High Street alone has 23 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1969.

Of the whole list, 69% are houses, terraces and villas. John Henry Wynne (1819), John Lynes (1872) and George Lloyd (1820) were all born here before 1900. Its homes are mostly newer: 5.3% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Coleshill’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Coleshill?

Historic England lists 55 buildings inside Coleshill’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 54 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Coleshill?

One: Church of St Peter and St Paul.

Are there scheduled monuments in Coleshill?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Coleshill Bridge.

How many conservation areas are there in Coleshill?

2, covering about 28 hectares of the town. The largest are Coleshill and Coventry Road, Coleshill.

When were Coleshill’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 27, in 1952.

Who was born in Coleshill?

Among people born before 1900: John Henry Wynne (1819), John Lynes (1872) and George Lloyd (1820).

How old are the homes in Coleshill?

5.3% of homes were built before 1919 and 15% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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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