251 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

The Hungerford AlmshousesGrade I listedChurch of St BartholomewGrade I listedOutbuilding to East of Methuen Arms HotelGrade II listedTown HallGrade II listedThe Packhorse InnGrade II listed+17See all photos

Photos 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.

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Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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).

High Street38 listed · 6 II*

Pickwick16 listed

Church Street5 listed

Pound Pill5 listed

Bences Lane4 listed

Pickwick Road3 listed

Station Road3 listed

Of the 251 entries, 79 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

Search the rest on Historic England’s list →

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.

The first 77 entries were listed in 1960, 2 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 151 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

Corsham CourtGrade II*

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.

Richard Blackmore

Winifred Lily Boys-Smith

Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen

Felix Aylmer

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Richard Blackmore1654–1729 · English poet and physician

Felix Aylmer1889–1979 · English actor (1889-1979)

Winifred Lily Boys-Smith1865–1939 · British born New Zealand botanical artist and educator

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Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen1886–1974 · British painter, zoologist and landowner (1886-1974)

Everyone born in Corsham → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Corsham: per resident it has more than 93% of UK towns. In all there are 251 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I, including Corsham Court. Church of St Bartholomew sits at the heart of it all, with 3 of the town’s Grade I buildings within 400 m. Only 33 of the 653 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

High Street alone has 38 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970. Of the whole list, 56% are houses, terraces and villas. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.