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The Oak Cottage, Main Street, Wick, PershorePhoto: Jeff Gogarty · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Wick · Historic England

18 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Wick’s built-up area, 495 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 17 of Wick’s listed buildings. 21% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
18
495 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
21%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Wick

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

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 Wick’s history is

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

Church of St Mary, Grade II*
Grade II*

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

18 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*17 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 II*

The Grade II* listed building in Wick

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Grade II

17 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 17 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 20% of Wick

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

Wick15 ha
15 hain conservation areas, of 77 ha inside the built-up area.

16 of the 18 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

8 of Wick’s 18 listed buildings were added in 1972

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

1972 · 81965 · 7
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 7 entries were listed in 1965. 8 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Wick

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Wick364180—
Pershore8,2071952A−
Eckington1,256500A
Drakes Broughton1,81300D−
Bredon2,071382A−
Twyning1,079170B+
Evesham28,2561537B+
Upton upon Severn2,4031160A+
In brief

Wick in brief

The official list counts 18 listed buildings in Wick. A conservation area protects part of it. Beyond that, 21% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Wick’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Wick?

Historic England lists 18 buildings inside Wick’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 17 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Wick?

1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is Wick.

When were Wick’s buildings listed?

The first in 1965; the most, 8, in 1972.

How old are the homes in Wick?

21% of homes were built before 1919 and 26% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Wick has no History Grade.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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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