Church of the Holy Cross · Photo: nick macneill · CC BY-SA 2.0

History of Ramsbury · Historic England

54 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Ramsbury’s built-up area, 350 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 52 of Ramsbury’s listed buildings. 30% of its homes were built before 1919. Ramsbury grades A for history.

1Grade I 1Grade II*16on High Street

Listed buildings

350 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

30%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Ramsbury

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Parliament PieceGrade II* listed

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.

The map

Where Ramsbury’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Grade IGrade II*

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

54 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I1 Grade II*52 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 Ramsbury

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.

Church · listed 1966Church of the Holy CrossPhoto: nick macneill · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The Grade II* listed building in Ramsbury

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.

House · listed 1966Parliament PiecePhoto: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0

What’s protected

Most of Ramsbury’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas48

Churches, chapels & priories2

Inns, shops & warehouses2

Walls, gates & bridges1

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

48 entries (89%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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

52 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 52 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Allen Monument in Churchyard, 6 Metres North of North East Corner of North Aisle, Church of the Holy Cross Barn to Parliament Piece Briar Cottage the Maltings Cranmer Cottage Dormer Cottage the Red House Evelyn House Gates, Gate Piers and Enclosing Wall to Garden of Parliament Piece Hillsborough Jasmine Cottage Kennet House Kilderkin Cottage Knap Cottage Lamorna Cottage Old Tannery Ramsbury Hill Ramsbury War Memorial Rush Cottage Smithy Cottage Syon House The Boot The Cedars The Gallery The Hayward The Institute The Knap House The Old Forge The Old Mill The Old Vicarage Toby Cottage Vine Cottage Wistaria Cottage 1, High Street 10 and 12, High Street 12, Burdett Street 14-18, High Street 2, High Street 27, High Street 36, High Street 4, 5 and 6, Burdett Street 4, High Street 42, Oxford Street 59, High Street 6 and 6A, High Street 78, High Street 79, High Street 8, Burdett Street 8, High Street 81, High Street 83-89, High Street 84, High Street 9 and 10, Oxford Street 9, High Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 39% of Ramsbury

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Ramsbury 197326 ha

26 hain conservation areas, of 66 ha inside the built-up area.

53 of the 54 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

22 of Ramsbury’s 54 listed buildings were added in 1966

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1966 · 221985 · 201990 · 10

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 22 entries were listed in 1966, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Ramsbury grades A for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (57 points, 370 per 10,000 residents)More than 86% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (30%)More than 84% 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

30% of Ramsbury’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

23%

Before 1900

7.2%

1900–18

7.2%

1919–29

1930s

8.7%

1945–54

4.3%

1955–64

7.2%

1965–72

20%

1973–82

16%

1983–92

2.9%

1993–99

2.9%

2000–08

2009–15

2016–25

RamsburyEngland & Wales

23% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 20% 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 (10 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Towns its size

Ramsbury has the 96th most Grade I buildings of 1,731 towns its size

Places of 1,000–2,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Ramsbury1

#164 of 1,731for listed buildings per resident (350 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.

95 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Ramsbury

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Ramsbury	1,541	54	1	A
Aldbourne	1,686	84	1	A⁺
Hungerford	5,184	93	0	A⁻
Great Bedwyn	1,194	30	1	A
Lambourn	3,141	59	1	A
Marlborough	8,829	280	2	A
Burbage	1,322	35	0	A
Chiseldon	2,033	24	1	B

In brief

Ramsbury in brief

More of Ramsbury’s homes are old than in most places: 30% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 54 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. For its size, it has more listed heritage than 86% of UK towns. Only 95 of the 1,731 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

High Street alone has 16 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 89%, are houses, terraces and villas. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Edward Meyrick (1854) was born here before 1900.

Questions about Ramsbury’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Ramsbury?

Historic England lists 54 buildings inside Ramsbury’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 52 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Ramsbury?

One: Church of the Holy Cross.

How many conservation areas are there in Ramsbury?

1, covering about 26 hectares of the town. The largest is Ramsbury.

When were Ramsbury’s buildings listed?

The first in 1966; the most, 22, in 1966.

How old are the homes in Ramsbury?

30% of homes were built before 1919 and 38% 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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