Yes, and with less argument than a village this tidy usually allows. Eighteen listed buildings in the whole area, all of them at the lowest grade. One conservation area, sitting over the old core. Hundreds of planning applications have gone in around here across the last couple of years, which is not the profile of a place where nothing ever changes. The heritage brake is real, it just is not attached to many houses.
Historic England's register shows 18 listed buildings across the area, and the grade split is the useful part: none at grade one, none at grade two star, and all 18 at grade two. Grade two is the ordinary tier of protection, which does not mean the light-touch tier. If you own one, listed building consent applies to anything affecting its character, and that includes the parts nobody sees from the road: internal walls, staircases, original joinery, and the window you were planning to swap for something that keeps the heat in. The protection covers the whole building rather than the elevation facing the lane.
There is one conservation area, covering Tatworth itself. Designation brings an extra layer over and above normal planning control, typically consent for demolition, tighter scrutiny of alterations that change the look of the street, and notification requirements for work to trees. The precise controls that apply inside the boundary are Somerset Council's to state rather than anything to assume from a village-level summary, so the boundary map is the document that matters and it is worth looking at before the architect does.
As for whether people actually alter their homes here, the planning record says plainly that they do. There were 440 applications across the area between April 2024 and July 2026, with 155 of those in the most recent twelve months. That is a steady stream of extensions, outbuildings, garage conversions and the rest going through the system. Nobody is submitting that volume of paperwork in a village where the answer is always no.
In practice the great majority of Tatworth homes are neither listed nor inside the conservation boundary, which puts them under the same permitted development rules as anywhere else in England. Single-storey rear extensions, loft conversions and the usual suspects go ahead without a planning application where they stay within the national limits, and the limits are the thing to read rather than anything the neighbour tells you over the fence. Two houses on the same road can sit either side of the conservation line and face completely different processes, so check the address rather than the village.
Freedom to alter a home is one of Tatworth's quieter strengths. Unless you have bought one of the 18 listed buildings or landed inside the conservation boundary, the constraints here are national rather than local, and the heritage officer will have no particular interest in your kitchen.