St. David's and the Cathedral Close has 211 listed buildings, 9 of them Grade I. More listed buildings per home than almost every area in England and Wales.
Listed buildings and scheduled monuments are counted where their map point falls; one list entry can cover a terrace or group. Per 1,000 homes uses Census 2021 households. Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), licensed under the Open Government Licence. How we calculate this
All house prices in St. David's and the Cathedral CloseConservation areas in Wales are not included yet.
In a conservation area you usually need planning permission for work that would be allowed elsewhere, such as cladding, side extensions, some roof changes and demolishing most buildings, and you must give the council six weeks' notice before cutting back or felling most trees. Some areas have extra Article 4 rules, for example on replacing windows or doors. Check with the council before you buy.
A listed home needs listed building consent for any work that affects its character, inside or out, and doing that work without consent is a criminal offence. Grade I buildings are of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of listed buildings), Grade II* are particularly important (about 5.8%), and most, about 92%, are Grade II. One list entry can cover a whole terrace.
This page shows how common listed buildings are in St. David's and the Cathedral Close. To check a specific address, search the official list entry or ask the council.
St. David's and the Cathedral Close has 9 Grade I listed buildings, the highest grade.
| Building | Listed |
|---|---|
| Cathedral of St Davids | 1963 |
| Cloister Hall | 1963 |
| Enclosing Wall & Gateway on N.Side of rear yard of Cloister Hall | 1963 |
| Outbuilding to N. of The Cloister Hall | 1963 |
| Porth-y-Twr, including Gateway & South Tower | 1963 |
| Ruins of St Justinian's Chapel | 1963 |
| St David's Cathedral Hall (formerly Chapel of St Mary's College) & attached Cloister Ruins | 1951 |
| The Bishop's Palace | 1963 |
| Undercrofts of former St Mary's College, beneath & to the rear of The Cloister Hall | 1963 |
Each name links to its official list entry.
Yes, St. David's and the Cathedral Close has 28 scheduled monuments: nationally important sites such as earthworks, ruins and ancient buildings, protected from unauthorised change.
More quick answers on house prices, sales, areas, green space, crime, air quality and listed buildings in St. David's and the Cathedral Close.
Price information is from HM Land Registry, location boundaries are from OpenStreetMap, and households and population are from Nomis Census 2021 postcode estimates (21 March 2021). Parks and green space are from OS Open Greenspace. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Crime is from police.uk street-level data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: police.uk. Listed buildings and scheduled monuments are from Historic England and Cadw, and conservation areas from planning.data.gov.uk. Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), licensed under the Open Government Licence. Air quality is from Defra modelled background pollution maps. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Defra modelled background pollution, 2025.
Last updated 11 November 2026 at 01:07 with the latest Land Registry data (September 2026). The St. David's and the Cathedral Close dataset covers 115 postcodes.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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