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History of Lighthorne · Historic England

24 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Lighthorne’s built-up area, 556 for every 10,000 residents. All of Lighthorne’s listed buildings are Grade II. 7.8% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
24
556 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
7.8%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Lighthorne’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

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

24 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*24 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.

What’s protected

Most of Lighthorne’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas14
Churches, chapels & priories6
Inns, shops & warehouses2
Street furniture1
Public & civic buildings1

14 entries (58%) are houses, terraces and villas. 6 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

24 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 24 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 100% of Lighthorne

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 HE25 ha
25 hain conservation areas, of 25 ha inside the built-up area.

24 of the 24 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

More than half of Lighthorne’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987

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

1987 · 15
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 1 entry was listed in 1952. 15 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

7.8% of Lighthorne’s homes were built before 1919

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

7.7%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
0%
1919–29
0%
1930s
29%
1945–54
3.3%
1955–64
3.3%
1965–72
2.2%
1973–82
6.6%
1983–92
5.5%
1993–99
3.3%
2000–08
1.1%
2009–15
38%
2016–25
LighthorneEngland & Wales

7.7% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 38% 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 (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Lighthorne

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Lighthorne432240—
Kineton2,235640A
Harbury2,751290B
Bishop's Itchington2,53030D
Bishop's Tachbrook2,086141C
Wellesbourne7,015551B
Whitnash8,914130D
Barford1,428430A
In brief

Lighthorne in brief

Lighthorne has 24 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 58% are houses, terraces and villas. Its homes are mostly newer: 7.8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1987: 15 of 24.

Questions about Lighthorne’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Lighthorne?

Historic England lists 24 buildings inside Lighthorne’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 24 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Lighthorne?

1, covering about 25 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.

When were Lighthorne’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 15, in 1987.

How old are the homes in Lighthorne?

7.8% of homes were built before 1919 and 7.8% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Lighthorne has no History Grade.

© 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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.