IHouse · listed 1952Oare HousePhoto: Rob Stallard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Oare House · Photo: Rob Stallard · CC BY-SA 3.0–Not graded
History of Oare · Historic England
18 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Oare’s built-up area, 717 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 17 of Oare’s listed buildings. 40% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
18
717 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
40%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Oare’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IPark or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
18 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*17 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 Oare
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
17 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 17 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn to East of Home FarmBennettsBox CottageCartshed at Old OxyardChurch of the Holy TrinityCold BlowForecourt Railings to Oare HouseGarden Walls, West of Oare HouseHome FarmhouseLatenburyMartinsell CottagesOld BakeryOld OxyardPost OfficeStaff House and Stables for Cold BlowSummer House to South Garden, Oare HouseThe Parsonage House
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 66% of Oare
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Oare 197414 ha
14 hain conservation areas, of 22 ha inside the built-up area.
17 of the 18 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 Oare’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1987 · 12
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1952, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 12 came in 1987, 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.
1 registered park or garden
Oare HouseGrade II
Homes by age
40% of Oare’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
39%
Before 1900
1.7%
1900–18
6.7%
1919–29
4.2%
1930s
6.7%
1945–54
5%
1955–64
7.6%
1965–72
6.7%
1973–82
11%
1983–92
2.5%
1993–99
7.6%
2000–08
1.7%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
OareEngland & Wales
39% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 11% 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 (2 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Oare
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oare | 251 | 18 | 1 | — |
| Pewsey | 3,792 | 52 | 1 | A− |
| Marlborough | 8,829 | 280 | 2 | A |
| Burbage | 1,322 | 35 | 0 | A |
| Great Bedwyn | 1,194 | 30 | 1 | A |
| Netheravon | 1,068 | 7 | 0 | B− |
| Ramsbury | 1,541 | 54 | 1 | A |
| Devizes | 19,491 | 336 | 5 | A− |
In brief
Oare in brief
Old houses are part of Oare’s character: 40% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 18 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1974. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1987: 12 of 18.
Questions about Oare’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Oare?
Historic England lists 18 buildings inside Oare’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 17 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Oare?
One: Oare House.
How many conservation areas are there in Oare?
1, covering about 14 hectares of the town. The largest is Oare.
When were Oare’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 12, in 1987.
How old are the homes in Oare?
40% of homes were built before 1919 and 50% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Oare 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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