132 listed buildings, 7 of them Grade I

Church of St Mary and St NicholasGrade I listedTriumphal Entrance Arch and Flanking LodgesGrade I listedStable Block at Rear of Pembroke ArmsGrade II listedBurden's Ball BridgeGrade II listedSt Giles's HospitalGrade II listed+13See 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. 1866

c. 1868

1903

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.

West Street18 listed

South Street12 listed · 1 II*

Kingsbury Square11 listed

North Street5 listed · 1 II*

St John's Square5 listed · 1 II*

Of the 132 entries, 62 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 1951, 7 of the 7 Grade I buildings among them. 83 came in 1978, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Ruined church of SS Mary and Nicholas

1 registered park or garden

WiltonGrade 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.

24% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 17% 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 (30 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Serlo of Wilton

Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke

George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke

Abraham Hayward

William Phelps

Herbert Chermside

Sidney Olivier

Edith Olivier

Percy Hill

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Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke1584–1650 · English courtier and politician (1584-1650)

George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke1759–1827 · British Army general

Herbert Chermside1850–1929 · British Army general (1850–1929)

Abraham Hayward1801–1884 · English writer and translator (1801–1884)

Edith Olivier1872–1948 · British writer

SW

Serlo of Wilton1105–1181 · Medieval English poet

SO

Sidney Olivier1870–1932 · English cricketer (1870–1932)

WP

William Phelps1815–1867 · Anglican Archdeacon

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

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Wilton: per resident it has more than 93% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 132 listed buildings, 7 of them Grade I, including Wilton House. Its housing is old: 27% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Loggia to West of Wilton Park Together with Rear Wall and Approach Steps and Quadrants sits at the heart of it all, with 6 of the town’s Grade I buildings within 400 m.

Only one of the 1,000 towns nearest its size has more Grade I buildings. On West Street alone there are 18 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has a scheduled monument.