224 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

LongleatGrade I park or gardenPortway HouseGrade I listedThe White Hart InnGrade II listedTown HallGrade II listedFormer Girls' British SchoolGrade II listed+9See 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.

c. 1905

c. 1905

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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).

Of the 224 entries, 116 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 46 entries were listed in 1952, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 165 came in 1978, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

1 registered park or garden

LongleatGrade I

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.

Juliana Popjoy

Samuel Squire

Philip Ravenhill

Samuel Butler Provis

Ivor Philipps

Lucy Mary Silcox

Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant

Florence Mildred White

John Swayne

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Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant1863–1937 · British politician (1863-1937)

IP

Ivor Philipps1861–1940 · British Liberal Party Member of Parliament (1861-1940)

SS

Samuel Squire1714–1766 · British historian, Bishop of St Davids

JS

John Swayne1890–1964 · Chief of the General Staff (India); British Army general

Lucy Mary Silcox1862–1947 · English headmistress and feminist (1862-1947)

JP

Juliana Popjoy1710–1777 · Mistress of Beau Nash in the 1740ies

Samuel Butler Provis1845–1926 · British civil servant (1845–1926)

PR

Philip Ravenhill1828–1891 · Engineer in Gibraltar

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

Per resident, Warminster has more listed heritage than 87% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 224 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Longleat. Only 102 of the 510 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On Market Place alone there are 20 listed buildings.

Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973. Of the whole list, 78% are houses, terraces and villas. Owen Philipps, 1st Baron Kylsant (1863), Ivor Philipps (1861) and Samuel Squire (1714) are among the 9 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: 14% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.