A mustard gas decontamination centre and a 140-year-old pub have been approved for local listing.
Four historical sites across Basingstoke were given borough protection at the end of last month.
The council’s planning and infrastructure chief Rob Golding approved the status.
Three air raid shelters north of Brinkletts car park, off the Winchester Road, Whiteditch Pavilion on Sherborne Road, and The Soldiers Return on Upper Sherborne Road were all listed.
The local list was launched in 2007 and names buildings considered to be of architectural or historical interest.
The status does not give buildings any legal protection but is considered by planning bosses looking at development proposals. The four sites were submitted by members of the Basingstoke Heritage Society.
Society secretary Debbie Reavell said local listing acted as an important warning to potential developers.
She said: “Listing gives the buildings a bit more prominence and notice. It is a worthwhile thing to have because it signals to people that these sites are valued by the community for their heritage.”
According to council papers Whiteditch Pavilion was built as a mustard gas decontamination centre in World War Two.
The 73-year-old, bomb-proof building would have contained a shower room and bleaching room - where bleach paste would be rubbed over the skin of someone poisoned with lethal mustard gas. Council officers believe it is only remaining centre out of two built during the the war.
For pub landlord Mark Copley, the addition of the Soldiers Return to the local list closes the door on a troubled year.
As previously reported in the Observer, Mr Copley feared the building would be bulldozed following an application to turn the venue into six houses.
Pub regulars submitted a 92-signature petition urging the council to save the building. In March planning chiefs threw out the plans from the building’s owners, The Wellington Pub Company. Mr Copley said: “As far as we are concerned to be put on the list is a major step forward. It shows the council really want the building to exist, and we can keep it as The Soldiers Return for ever and ever.”
