Church of St Peter and St Paul · Photo: MaryCleary · CC BY-SA 3.04 listed buildings
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Water Orton’s built-up area, 11 for every 10,000 residents. All of Water Orton’s listed buildings are Grade II. 9.7% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings. Water Orton grades D for history: #29 of 34 in Warwickshire.
Landmarks of Water Orton
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Wakefield HouseGrade II listed
The ChestnutsGrade II listed
Cross at Sp 1760 9121Grade 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.
Where Water Orton’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
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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.
4 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 4 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
2 conservation areas cover 1.6% of Water Orton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
3 of the 4 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.
Water Orton grades D for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
Listed buildings in the places around Water Orton
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water Orton | 3,484 | 4 | 0 | D |
| Curdworth | 1,146 | 5 | 0 | C+ |
| Coleshill | 6,744 | 55 | 1 | B− |
| Kingsbury | 3,555 | 6 | 0 | C− |
| Hurley | 1,420 | 3 | 0 | D |
| Royal Sutton Coldfield | 93,392 | 103 | 1 | C+ |
| Wood End (North Warwickshire) | 1,562 | 0 | 0 | C− |
| Hampton in Arden | 1,867 | 24 | 1 | A− |
Water Orton in brief
Water Orton has 4 listed buildings, including Church of St Peter and St Paul. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 20% of UK towns. Beyond that, the list grew between 1952 and 1989; and 9.7% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Water Orton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Water Orton?
Historic England lists 4 buildings inside Water Orton’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 4 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Water Orton?
2, covering about 4 hectares of the town. The largest are Water Orton and No data available for publication by HE.
How old are the homes in Water Orton?
9.7% of homes were built before 1919 and 27% 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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