IChurch · listed 1955Parish Church of St MaryPhoto: Brian Robert Marshall · CC BY-SA 2.0
Parish Church of St Mary · Photo: Brian Robert Marshall · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Bishopstone · Historic England
31 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Bishopstone’s built-up area, 775 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 30 of Bishopstone’s listed buildings. 26% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
31
775 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
26%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Bishopstone’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
31 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*30 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.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Bishopstone
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.
What’s protected
Most of Bishopstone’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas23
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Walls, gates & bridges2
Public & civic buildings1
Street furniture1
Churches, chapels & priories1
23 entries (74%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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
30 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 30 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Bishopstone Church of England SchoolBoundary Walls to Prebendal FarmBrookside CottageCue's FarmhouseDingle CottageDisused MillEdmonds CottageFinch Hill CottageFormer Stable Adjoining to South East of Sarcens and Part of Boundary WallFormer Stable to East of Brookside CottageGlebe CottageIthaca CottageK6 telephone kioskLittlecotMace's Cottage and LyndercoteMalthouse FarmhouseManor FarmhouseMount Pleasant PointOrchard CottageRose CottageSarcensSayers BankSpring CottageSunny CottageThe LaurelsThe Old BakeryThe ShopTitcheners Cottage and Lilac CottageWinton CottageWyney
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 91% of Bishopstone
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Bishopstone 197329 ha
29 hain conservation areas, of 32 ha inside the built-up area.
31 of the 31 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 Bishopstone’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1979
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1979 · 231955 · 7
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 7 entries were listed in 1955, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 23 came in 1979, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
26% of Bishopstone’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
24%
Before 1900
2.4%
1900–18
2.4%
1919–29
3.9%
1930s
4.8%
1945–54
8.7%
1955–64
4.8%
1965–72
11%
1973–82
9.7%
1983–92
3.9%
1993–99
4.8%
2000–08
3.9%
2009–15
16%
2016–25
BishopstoneEngland & Wales
24% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 16% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bishopstone
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bishopstone | 400 | 31 | 1 | — |
| Wanborough | 1,737 | 23 | 1 | B+ |
| Shrivenham and Watchfield | 5,353 | 46 | 2 | B |
| Chiseldon | 2,033 | 24 | 1 | B |
| Stratton St Margaret | 20,689 | 17 | 1 | C− |
| Aldbourne | 1,686 | 84 | 1 | A+ |
| Lambourn | 3,141 | 59 | 1 | A |
| Highworth | 7,932 | 94 | 1 | B+ |
In brief
Bishopstone in brief
Old houses are part of Bishopstone’s character: 26% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 31 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Of the whole list, 74% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1979: 23 of 31.
Questions about Bishopstone’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bishopstone?
Historic England lists 31 buildings inside Bishopstone’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 30 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Bishopstone?
One: Parish Church of St Mary.
How many conservation areas are there in Bishopstone?
1, covering about 29 hectares of the town. The largest is Bishopstone.
When were Bishopstone’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 23, in 1979.
How old are the homes in Bishopstone?
26% of homes were built before 1919 and 32% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Bishopstone has no History Grade.
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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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