IChurch · listed 1967Church of St Leonard, CharlecoteOn the list as Church of St LeonardPhoto: David P Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church of St Leonard · Photo: David P Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0BHistory Grade
History of Wellesbourne · Historic England
55 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Wellesbourne’s built-up area, 78 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. 8% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings and 1 old view of the town. Wellesbourne grades B for history: #13 of 34 in Warwickshire.
Listed buildings
55
78 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
3
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
2
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
8%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Wellesbourne in 7 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Charlecote ParkGrade II* park or garden
Church of St PeterGrade II* listed
Kings Head Public HouseGrade II listed
Charlecote BridgeScheduled monument
Staple Hill CottagesGrade II listed+2See 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.
Through time
Wellesbourne in old photos
1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
c. 1905Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where Wellesbourne’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monumentPark or garden
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 7neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 36% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
55 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I3 Grade II*51 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 Wellesbourne
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.
Grade II*
The 3 Grade II* listed buildings in Wellesbourne
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed.
II*Church · listed 1967Church of St PeterPhoto: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1972The Little House
Public · listed 1952Wellesbourne Hall
What’s protected
Most of Wellesbourne’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas35
Churches, chapels & priories11
Public & civic buildings3
Walls, gates & bridges2
Street furniture2
Inns, shops & warehouses2
35 entries (64%) are houses, terraces and villas. 11 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
51 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 51 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Aylworth Monument Approximately 2 Metres South of the Church of St PeterBambi CottageCharlecote GardensCoopersEnd HouseFoley Headstone Approximately 4 Metres South of the Chapel of the Church of St PeterFord Headstone Approximately 23 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St LeonardGroup of Nine Headstones Approximately 5 Metres South East of the Porch of the Church of St PeterHiorn's BridgeJacksons Farmhouse Wayside Willows EndK6 Telephone Kiosk at Ngr Sp 264 568 to the Left of Number 34 (Number 34 Not Included)K6 Telephone Kiosk in the Middle of the SquareKings Head Public HousePitt HouseRailings and Gates and Gate Piers Approximately 15 Metres East of the Church of St PeterRoddis HouseRowell Cottage WoodleaSeeley Headstone Approximately 22 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St LeonardSeeley Headstone Immediately South of Chancel of Church of St LeonardSoutham Headstone Approximately 15 Metres South of Chancel of Church of St LeonardStags Head InnStaple Hill CottagesStaple Hill CottagesThe CottageThe GablesThe Granary at Ngr Sp 2783 5517The Little CottageThe Lodge at Wellesbourne HallThe Malt HouseThe Manor HouseThe Old HouseThe Old School HouseThe Old StoresThe Old Vicarage and the Church HouseThe Red HouseThe Vicarage and the GlebeWar Memorial Approximately 17 Metres West of the Church of St PeterWellesbourne FarmhouseWhite Cottage15 and 16, School Road2, School Road3, 5 and 7, Church Walk3, Stratford Road3-9, Chestnut Square33 and 35, Warwick Street4, Chapel Street4, Church Walk57, Chapel Street6, 8 and 10, Church Walk6, Chestnut Square9, Chapel Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Wellesbourne
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 HE494 ha
494 hain conservation areas, of 494 ha inside the built-up area.
55 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
19 of Wellesbourne’s 55 listed buildings were added in 1972
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1972 · 191999 · 121967 · 11
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 3 entries were listed in 1952. 19 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have 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.
2 scheduled monuments
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
1 registered park or garden
Charlecote ParkGrade II*
History Grade
Wellesbourne 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 (66 points, 94 per 10,000 residents)More than 74% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (8%)More than 19% 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% of Wellesbourne’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
0.3%
1900–18
1.1%
1919–29
2.4%
1930s
5.7%
1945–54
4.2%
1955–64
11%
1965–72
17%
1973–82
12%
1983–92
9.7%
1993–99
2.1%
2000–08
5%
2009–15
22%
2016–25
WellesbourneEngland & Wales
7.7% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 22% 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 (40 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
3 notable people born in Wellesbourne before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis
Eustace Mordaunt
Gerald Mordaunt
18501875190019251950
Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis1865–1929 · British countess (1865-1929)
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Eustace Mordaunt1870–1938 · British cricketer (1870-1938)
GM
Gerald Mordaunt1873–1959 · Cricketer (1873-1959)
Everyone born in Wellesbourne → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Wellesbourne has the 84th most Grade I buildings of 810 towns its size
Places of 4,000–11,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Wellesbourne1
#196 of 810for listed buildings per resident (78 per 10,000). Sandwich, Brecon and Rye lead.
83 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Wellesbourne
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellesbourne | 7,015 | 55 | 1 | B |
| Tiddington | 1,687 | 18 | 0 | B− |
| Barford | 1,428 | 43 | 0 | A |
| Ettington | 1,064 | 14 | 0 | A− |
| Bishop's Tachbrook | 2,086 | 14 | 1 | C |
| Kineton | 2,235 | 64 | 0 | A |
| Stratford-upon-Avon | 28,112 | 303 | 11 | A− |
| Snitterfield | 1,055 | 16 | 1 | A− |
In brief
Wellesbourne in brief
The official list counts 55 listed buildings in Wellesbourne, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Leonard, Charlecote. Only 83 of the 810 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 64%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis (1865), Eustace Mordaunt (1870) and Gerald Mordaunt (1873) were all born here before 1900. Its homes are mostly newer: 8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Questions about Wellesbourne’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Wellesbourne?
Historic England lists 55 buildings inside Wellesbourne’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 51 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Wellesbourne?
One: Church of St Leonard.
Are there scheduled monuments in Wellesbourne?
Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Charlecote Bridge and Cursus and bowl barrow 450m south east of Jackson's Barn.
How many conservation areas are there in Wellesbourne?
1, covering about 494 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Wellesbourne’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 19, in 1972.
Are there old photos of Wellesbourne?
Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1905 to 1905, all on this page.
Who was born in Wellesbourne?
Among people born before 1900: Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis (1865), Eustace Mordaunt (1870) and Gerald Mordaunt (1873).
How old are the homes in Wellesbourne?
8% of homes were built before 1919 and 12% 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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