IChurch · listed 1958Church of St Mary and St MelorPhoto: Matthew Black · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church of St Mary and St Melor · Photo: Matthew Black · CC BY-SA 2.0B−History Grade
History of Amesbury · Historic England
59 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Amesbury’s built-up area, 47 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 3 scheduled monuments. 2.3% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 7 of its listed buildings and 1 old view of the town. Amesbury grades B− for history: #24 of 30 in Wiltshire.
Listed buildings
59
47 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
3
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
3
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
2.3%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Amesbury in 8 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.
Kent HouseGrade II* listed
The New InnGrade II listed
Toll HouseGrade II listed
Toll CottageGrade II listed
FlintstonesGrade II listed+3See 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
Amesbury in old photos
1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
c. 1907Public 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 Amesbury’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 8neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
59 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I3 Grade II*55 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 Amesbury
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 Amesbury
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 2 are photographed.
II*House · listed 1953Kent HousePhoto: Steve Roberts · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Walls & gates · listed 1988Gate piers and gates to Amesbury AbbeyOn the list as Gate Piers and Gates to Amesbury Abbey, With Flanking WallsPhoto: Chris Talbot · CC BY-SA 2.0
Walls & gates · listed 1953Gate Piers to Lord's Walk, To Amesbury Abbey, With Flanking Estate Boundary Walls
What’s protected
Most of Amesbury’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas32
Inns, shops & warehouses10
Churches, chapels & priories9
Walls, gates & bridges5
Public & civic buildings2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
32 entries (54%) are houses, terraces and villas. 9 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
55 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 55 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Amesbury War MemorialAntrobus ArmsAntrobus HouseBrady Monument in Churchyard, Approximately 4 Metres South of Chancel, Church of St MaryBramblesComilla House Old Post OfficeCormhayeCountess Farmhouse and Front Garden WallsDavaar Vine CottageFairholmeFairlawn HotelFlintstonesFront Wall and Piers to Antrobus HouseGeorge HotelHicks and Whitehorn Monuments in Churchyard, Approximately 21 Metres South East of Chancel, Church of St MaryHighburyIvy Haven Windy RidgeLarge Barn at Countess FarmLarge Granary at Countess FarmLimetree Cottage Including Stables Adjoining SouthMilestone in Churchyard WallMillmeadMills Monument in Churchyard, Approximately 29 Metres South of Chancel, Church of St MaryOld Grammar SchoolOld Viney's FarmhousePear Tree CottageSmall Granary to North of Large Barn at Countess FarmSolstice FarmSophia Monument in Churchyard, Approximately 26 Metres South of South Transept, Church of St MarySouth MillSouth Mill CottageSouth Mill HouseStables and Barn at Countess FarmSycamore HouseThe Bell InnThe Greyhound TavernThe Kings ArmsThe New InnThe Red HouseToll CottageToll HouseTowsey Monument in Churchyard, Approximately 8 Metres South of Chancel, Church of St MaryTwo Bloxham Monuments in Churchyard, Approximately 4 Metres South of Chancel, Church of St MaryTwo Crocker Monuments in Churchyard Approximately 39 to 41 Metres South of Chancel, Church of St MaryTwo Unidentified Monuments in Churchyard, Approximately 15 Metres South of Chancel, Church of St MaryYe Olde ShoppeYew Cottage16, Salisbury Road24, Holders Road26, Holders Road3, 5 and 7, High Street42, Holders Road6, Salisbury Street60, Holders Road9, 11 and 13, High Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 2.2% of Amesbury
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Amesbury 198012 ha
12 hain conservation areas, of 559 ha inside the built-up area.
32 of the 59 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 Amesbury’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1988
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1988 · 391953 · 9
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The first 9 entries were listed in 1953. 39 came in 1988, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. 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.
World Heritage
| Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated SitesUNESCO World Heritage Site: the town touches its mapped area, which can include a buffer zone |
3 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
Amesbury AbbeyGrade II*
History Grade
Amesbury 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 (72 points, 57 per 10,000 residents)More than 69% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (2.3%)More than 4% 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
2.3% of Amesbury’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
1.9%
Before 1900
0.4%
1900–18
1.9%
1919–29
4.1%
1930s
7.5%
1945–54
7.1%
1955–64
2.8%
1965–72
10%
1973–82
9.6%
1983–92
14%
1993–99
11%
2000–08
11%
2009–15
19%
2016–25
AmesburyEngland & Wales
1.9% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 19% 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 (9 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
3 notable people born in Amesbury before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury
Isabel de Verdun, Lady Ferrers of Groby
William Carpenter
120013501500165018001950
ES
Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury1190–1261 · English heiress and suo jure Countess of Salisbury
IG
Isabel de Verdun, Lady Ferrers of Groby1317–1349 · English noble
WC
William Carpenter1610–1685 · American colonist
Everyone born in Amesbury → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Amesbury has the 110th most Grade I buildings of 594 towns its size
Places of 8,000–20,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Amesbury1
#207 of 594for listed buildings per resident (47 per 10,000). Brecon, Ludlow and Richmond lead.
109 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Amesbury
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amesbury | 12,676 | 59 | 1 | B− |
| Bulford | 4,923 | 12 | 0 | C− |
| Durrington | 5,718 | 24 | 1 | C+ |
| Larkhill | 2,728 | 3 | 0 | D |
| Old Sarum | 4,013 | 5 | 0 | D |
| Shipton Bellinger | 1,442 | 13 | 0 | C+ |
| Netheravon | 1,068 | 7 | 0 | B− |
| Shrewton | 1,722 | 41 | 0 | A |
In brief
Amesbury in brief
The official list counts 59 listed buildings in Amesbury, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Mary and St Melor. Only 109 of the 594 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1980. Most entries on the list, 54%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury (1190), Isabel de Verdun, Lady Ferrers of Groby (1317) and William Carpenter (1610) were all born here before 1900. Its homes are mostly newer: 2.3% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1988, when 39 of the 59 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 3 scheduled monuments.
Questions about Amesbury’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Amesbury?
Historic England lists 59 buildings inside Amesbury’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 55 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Amesbury?
One: Church of St Mary and St Melor.
Are there scheduled monuments in Amesbury?
Yes, 3 scheduled monuments, including Bowl barrow 70m west of A345 on Countess Farm, Bowl barrow within Boscombe Down Airfield, 160m south east of The Rifle and Pistol Club and Ratfyn Barrow.
Is Amesbury a World Heritage Site?
Part of Amesbury lies within the area Historic England maps for Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites, which can include a buffer zone around the site itself.
How many conservation areas are there in Amesbury?
1, covering about 12 hectares of the town. The largest is Amesbury.
When were Amesbury’s buildings listed?
The first in 1953; the most, 39, in 1988.
Are there old photos of Amesbury?
Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1907 to 1907, all on this page.
Who was born in Amesbury?
Among people born before 1900: Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury (1190), Isabel de Verdun, Lady Ferrers of Groby (1317) and William Carpenter (1610).
How old are the homes in Amesbury?
2.3% of homes were built before 1919 and 8.2% 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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