Abbey Church of Holy Cross with Saint Edburgha · Photo: Philip Pankhurst · CC BY-SA 2.0

History of Pershore · Historic England

195 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Pershore’s built-up area, 238 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 10 of its listed buildings. 12% of its homes were built before 1919. Pershore grades A− for history: #6 of 22 in Worcestershire.

2Grade I 5Grade II*1scheduled monument 57on High Street

Listed buildings

195

238 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

12%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Pershore in 9 photos

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

Perrott HouseGrade I listed

37, High StreetGrade II* listed

The Plough InnGrade II listed

The Toll HouseGrade II listed

Barclays BankGrade II listed+4See 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 Pershore’s history is

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

Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument

Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+

0 of 5neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 35% were built before 1919.

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

195 listed buildings by grade

2 Grade I5 Grade II*188 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. 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 2 Grade I listed buildings in Pershore

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 1965Pershore AbbeyOn the list as Abbey Church of Holy Cross with Saint EdburghaPhoto: Philip Pankhurst · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1965Perrott HousePhoto: Jeff Gogarty · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The 5 Grade II* listed buildings in Pershore

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

House · listed 196537, High StreetPhoto: V1ncenze · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1965Bedford HousePhoto: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0

Church · listed 1965Former Church of St AndrewPhoto: Rodw · CC BY-SA 4.0

House · listed 1965Stanhope HousePhoto: Philip Pankhurst · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 196556 and 58, Bridge StreetPhoto: Philip Pankhurst · CC BY-SA 2.0

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 Street57 listed · 1 II*

Bridge Street35 listed · 1 II*

Broad Street13 listed

Newlands7 listed

Priest Lane5 listed

Of the 195 entries, 123 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Pershore’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas161

Churches, chapels & priories11

Inns, shops & warehouses11

Walls, gates & bridges8

Public & civic buildings3

Street furniture1

161 entries (83%) are houses, terraces and villas. 11 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 2 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

188 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.

The first 150 of 188 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Allesborough Farmhouse Allesborough Farmhouse Barn Alveston House Amerie House Angel Hotel Avondale Ayrton House Baptist Chapel with Attached Parish Room and Manse Barclays Bank Barn Approximately 10 Metres to North West of Number 100 Amerie Court Barn Within the Grounds of Central Garage Barn Within the Grounds of Central Garage Number 2 Worcester Road Belle House Bridge House Chest Tomb Approximately 16 Meters West North West of North East Gate of Abbey Churchyard Cordwainers Cottage Cross Approximately 20 Metres South of South Chancel Wall of Abbey Church Davis Ellis Tomb Approximately 55 Metres South South East of South Porch of Former Church of St Andrew Dungannon House Evans and Milward Tombs Approximately 19 Metres South of South East Nave of Former Church of Saint Andrew Fern House Former Cottage Wing to Rear of Number 22 Gate Piers to Abbey Park and Wall Extending Approximately 60 Metres to North Gates to Pershore House Gothic House Group of 4 Tombs Approximately 3 to 12 Metres North of North Entrance of Abbey Church K6 Telephone Kiosk at Front of Number 37 High Street Lincoln House Lloyds Bank Lynton Manor House Hotel Masons Ryde Meeting Room Melrose Midland Bank Mill House Number 1 Abbey Place Number 2 Abbey Place, Morewood House Number 22 and Attached Former House Wing to Rear Number 3 Abbey Place Number 3 Church Row Number 35 Broad Street and Number 2 High Street Old Wool Barn to Rear of Number 19 Outbuilding and Attached Gate at Rear of Number 62 the Ley School Pershore Hall Pershore House Pershore Working Mens Club Preston House Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer, St Wulstan and St Eadburga Royal Arcade - the Terrace St Margarets and Attached Outbuildings Stable at Number 62 Talbot Inn The Almonry The Brandy Cask The Ley School The Millers Arms The New Inn The Old Malthouse The Plough Inn The Star Hotel The Toll House The Vineyard Vicarage Wall Bounding Manor Gardens on South and West Sides and Continuing Approximately 18 Metres to Northwest Wall on North and West Sides of Vicarage Grounds Western House Woodman's Cottage 1, 3 and 5, Broad Street 1, High Street 1-9, Priest Lane 10, Bridge Street 10, High Street 101 and 103, High Street 102, High Street 103A, High Street 104, High Street 105, High Street 11, High Street 115, Hawthorns 119 and 123, High Street 12, Bridge Street 12, Broad Street 12, High Street 125-131, High Street 13, High Street 13-19, Priest Lane 133, High Street 136, High Street 138, High Street 14 and 16, Broad Street 14, Bridge Street 14, High Street 140, High Street 15, Bridge Street 15, Broad Street 15, High Street 16, Bridge Street 16, High Street 17, Broad Street 17, Newlands 17A, Bridge Street 18, Bridge Street 19, Broad Street 19, High Street 19, Newlands 2, Worcester Road 20, Bridge Street 20, High Street 21 and 23, High Street 21, 23 and 25, Priest Lane 21, Bridge Street 22, High Street 24 and 26, Broad Street 24, Bridge Street 25, High Street 26, Bridge Street 27, Bridge Street 27, Priest Lane 28 and 30, Bridge Street 28 and 30, Broad Street 29, Bridge Street 29, High Street 2A and 4, Newlands 3, High Street 30A 30B and 30C, Bridge Street 31 and 33, High Street 31, Bridge Street 32 and 34, Bridge Street 33, Bridge Street 35 and 37, Bridge Street 35, Three Springs Road 36 and 38, Bridge Street 36 and 38, Newlands 36, Church Street 36, High Street 39 41 and 43, Newlands 39, Bridge Street 39, High Street 4, Broad Street 4, High Street 40, Bridge Street 40, High Street 41 and 43, Bridge Street 41 and 43, High Street 44, Bridge Street 44, High Street 45 and 47, Bridge Street 45, High Street 46, Bridge Street 47, High Street

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Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 13% of Pershore

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

Pershore38 ha

38 hain conservation areas, of 289 ha inside the built-up area.

186 of the 195 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 Pershore’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1965

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

1965 · 1031972 · 581999 · 18

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 1 entry was listed in 1954. 103 came in 1965. Only 1 has 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 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.

Pershore Abbey (site of)

History Grade

Pershore 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 (206 points, 251 per 10,000 residents)More than 92% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (12%)More than 34% 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.

Born here

3 notable people born in Pershore before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

George Mason I

Edward Acton

Florence Feek

16001650170017501800185019001950

Edward Acton1871–1912 · West Indian cricketer (1871-1912)

Florence Feek1876–1940 · British suffragette and PO worker

George Mason I1629–1686 · English politician in Virginia (born 1629)

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

Towns its size

Pershore has the 49th most Grade I buildings of 742 towns its size

Places of 5,000–13,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Wells23

Pershore2

#44 of 742for listed buildings per resident (238 per 10,000). Brecon, Dartmouth and Malmesbury lead.

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Pershore

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Pershore	8,207	195	2	A⁻
Drakes Broughton	1,813	0	0	D⁻
Eckington	1,256	50	0	A
Norton (Norton Juxta Kempsey)	1,592	3	0	D
Bredon	2,071	38	2	A⁻
Kempsey	3,753	19	1	B
Evesham	28,256	153	7	B⁺
Twyning	1,079	17	0	B⁺

In brief

Pershore in brief

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Pershore: per resident it has more than 92% of UK towns. In all there are 195 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I, including Pershore Abbey. Only 48 of the 742 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On High Street alone there are 57 listed buildings.

A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 83%, are houses, terraces and villas. Edward Acton (1871), Florence Feek (1876) and George Mason I (1629) were all born here before 1900. Beyond that, it also has a scheduled monument; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Pershore’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Pershore?

Historic England lists 195 buildings inside Pershore’s built-up area: 2 Grade I, 5 Grade II* and 188 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Pershore?

2, including Abbey Church of Holy Cross with Saint Edburgha and Perrott House.

Which street in Pershore has the most listed buildings?

High Street (57), Bridge Street (35) and Broad Street (13) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Pershore?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Pershore Abbey (site of).

How many conservation areas are there in Pershore?

1, covering about 38 hectares of the town. The largest is Pershore.

When were Pershore’s buildings listed?

The first in 1954; the most, 103, in 1965.

Who was born in Pershore?

Among people born before 1900: Edward Acton (1871), Florence Feek (1876) and George Mason I (1629).

How old are the homes in Pershore?

12% of homes were built before 1919 and 17% 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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