Church of All Saints · Photo: Nilfanion · CC BY-SA 4.0

History of Evesham · Historic England

153 listed buildings, 7 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Evesham’s built-up area, 54 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 3 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 15 of its listed buildings. 15% of its homes were built before 1919. Evesham grades B+ for history: #7 of 22 in Worcestershire.

7Grade I 12Grade II*3scheduled monuments 25on High Street

Listed buildings

153

54 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

15%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Evesham in 17 photos

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

The Bell TowerGrade I listed

Abbot Reginald's GatewayGrade I listed

Old Red Horse InnGrade II listed

Avon Bridge HouseGrade II listed

Public LibraryGrade II listed+12See 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.

The map

Where Evesham’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.

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).

Grade I

The 7 Grade I listed buildings in Evesham

Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings; 7 of these stand within 400 m of 53 and 54 incorporating Remains of Abbey Gate (Abbey Gate House). 5 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Church · listed 1952All Saints ChurchOn the list as Church of All SaintsPhoto: Nilfanion · CC BY-SA 4.0

House · listed 1952Evesham Bell TowerOn the list as The Bell TowerPhoto: Oosoom · CC BY-SA 3.0

House · listed 1952Abbot Reginald's GatewayPhoto: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 4.0

Inns & shops · listed 1952Round House (National Westminster Bank)Photo: David Stowell · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1952The AlmonryPhoto: Colin Babb · CC BY-SA 2.0

Walls & gates · listed 1977Gate and railings of number 53

House · listed 195253 and 54 incorporating Remains of Abbey Gate (Abbey Gate House)

Grade II*

The 12 Grade II* listed buildings in Evesham

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 7 are photographed.

Church · listed 1952Church of St AndrewPhoto: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0

Church · listed 1952St Lawrence's ChurchOn the list as Church of St LawrencePhoto: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1952Dresden HousePhoto: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0

Church · listed 1952The Old Vicarage (Church House)Photo: Nilfanion · CC BY-SA 4.0

Church · listed 1952Unitarian ChapelPhoto: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0

Public · listed 1952Walker HallPhoto: Carol Walker · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 195258, Bridge StreetPhoto: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0

Street furniture · listed 1977Railings and Lamp Standards of Number 51

Church · listed 1952Remains of Abbey Stables

House · listed 1952The Cottage

House · listed 197732 and 34, Church Street

House · listed 195245-49, High Street

Historic streets

High Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

High Street25 listed · 1 II*

Port Street15 listed

Bridge Street11 listed · 1 II*

Merstow Green11 listed

Vine Street9 listed

Church Street4 listed · 1 II*

Of the 153 entries, 91 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Evesham’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas116

Inns, shops & warehouses10

Churches, chapels & priories9

Public & civic buildings8

Walls, gates & bridges6

Memorials, crosses & tombs3

Street furniture1

116 entries (76%) are houses, terraces and villas. 9 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 7 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

134 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 134 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Abbot Reginald's Wall and the Porter's Lodge Almswood House Anchor House Avon Bridge House Avon House Cherry Tree Cottage Church of St Peter Cross in St Andrew's Churchyard Durcott House Evesham Hotel Former Barn at Rear of Number 64 Former Barn at Rear of Number 66 Former Stables to Lansdowne Friar's Mead Gate Piers to Churchyard Gate Piers to North of Old Churchyard of St Peter's Grafton House Green Dragon Inn Greenhill School Hampton House Hampton Manor Hampton War Memorial K6 Telephone Kiosk 10 Metres North of Walker Hall King Charles II Inn Lansdowne Midland Bank No. 9, MARKET PLACE Northwick Arms Hotel Old Grammar School Old Red Horse Inn Porch of Former Church of St Peter Prospect House and School House Public Library Railway Hotel Regal Cinema Remains of West Wall of North Transept of Abbey Roman Catholic Church of St Mary and St Egwin Star Hotel Swan Hotel The Elm The Stocks Tomb of John Martin in St Andrew's Churchyard Town Hall Vinecroft 1, Merstow Green 1-12, Rynal Street 1-13, Church Street 1-3 Merstow Green 1-3 Waterside 10, Vine Street 10, Waterside 106 11, High Street 12 and 12A Vine Street 12, High Street 12, Port Street 12-18, Bridge Street 14 and 14A, Port Street 14, Merstow Green 14, Rynal Street 15 and 16, The Pool 15-17, Merstow Green 15-19, Church Street 16 and 18, Broadway Road 16, Vine Street 16-20, High Street 18 and 19, Merstow Green 18, Port Street 18-20, Vine Street 19 Cowl Street 2 and 4, Merstow Place 2, Vine Street 20 and 21, Merstow Green 20 and 22, Bridge Street 20, 22 and 22A, Port Street 21 and 23, Church Street 21, Bridge Street 23, High Street 25 and 27, High Street 29, High Street 3 and 5, High Street 3, Vine Street 31 and 33, Bridge Street 32, Cowl Street 36, Bridge Street 36, High Street 37-41, Bridge Street 38, High Street 4 and 5 Abbey Gate 4 and 5, Vine Street 4, 5 and 6 Brookside 4-5 and 6 Merstow Green 4-9, Watrerside 40-44, High Street 41, Merstow Green 42, Merstow Green 43 and 45, Bridge Street 43, Merstow Green 47, Bridge Street 47, Port Street 5, Malins Hill Road 50, High Street 50, Port Street 53-61, Port Street 55 and 57, High Street 58 and 60, High Street 58-64, Port Street 59 and 61, High Street 6 and 6A, Market Place 6-10, Port Street 62, High Street 63, High Street 63, Port Street 64, Bridge Street 64, High Street 64, Pershore Road 65, High Street 66, Port Street 67 and 69, High Street 68, Port Street 7 and 9, High Street 7, Market Place 7, Merstow Green 7, Vine Street 70 74 Port Street 8 and 10, Bridge Street 8 and 9, Vine Street 82, Port Street 84 and 86, Port Street 85, High Street 86, High Street 88, High Street 95, High Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 3.8% of Evesham

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

Evesham26 ha

26 hain conservation areas, of 702 ha inside the built-up area.

129 of the 153 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 Evesham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1977

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

1977 · 781952 · 64

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 64 entries were listed in 1952, 6 of the 7 Grade I buildings among them. 78 came in 1977, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 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.

3 scheduled monuments

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

Abbot Reginald's Gateway and Old Vicarage

Evesham Abbey (remains of)

West porch of Bengeworth Old Church

1 registered battlefield

Battle of Evesham 1265

History Grade

Evesham grades B+ for history

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

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (187 points, 66 per 10,000 residents)More than 77% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (15%)More than 43% 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.

Towns its size

Evesham has the 11th most Grade I buildings of 354 towns its size

Places of 17,000–45,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Bury St Edmunds26

Ely25

Chichester14

Warwick13

Stratford-upon-Avon11

Evesham7

#68 of 354for listed buildings per resident (54 per 10,000). Stamford, Cirencester and Bury St Edmunds lead.

Only Bury St Edmunds, Ely, Chichester, Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Abingdon-on-Thames, Bishop Auckland, Beverley, Stamford and Sudbury have more. Evesham is level with Great Yarmouth, Grantham and Thetford. The typical town its size has 1.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Evesham

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Evesham	28,256	153	7	B⁺
Offenham	1,507	26	0	B⁺
Badsey	2,722	14	0	B
Bretforton	1,190	44	1	A
Harvington	1,717	20	1	B⁺
Honeybourne	3,104	16	1	B⁻
Broadway	2,719	128	0	A
Pershore	8,207	195	2	A⁻

In brief

Evesham in brief

Per resident, Evesham has more listed heritage than 77% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 153 listed buildings, 7 of them Grade I, including All Saints Church. Only 10 of the 354 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On High Street alone there are 25 listed buildings.

A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 76% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1977: 78 of 153. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 3 scheduled monuments; and 15% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Evesham’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Evesham?

Historic England lists 153 buildings inside Evesham’s built-up area: 7 Grade I, 12 Grade II* and 134 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Evesham?

7, including Abbot Reginald's Gateway, Church of All Saints, Gate and railings of number 53, Round House (National Westminster Bank), The Almonry and The Bell Tower.

Which street in Evesham has the most listed buildings?

High Street (25), Port Street (15) and Bridge Street (11) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Evesham?

Yes, 3 scheduled monuments, including Abbot Reginald's Gateway and Old Vicarage, Evesham Abbey (remains of) and West porch of Bengeworth Old Church.

How many conservation areas are there in Evesham?

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

When were Evesham’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 78, in 1977.

How old are the homes in Evesham?

15% of homes were built before 1919 and 23% 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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