Church of St James · Photo: Tatraplan · Public domain30 listed buildings
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Silsoe’s built-up area, 88 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 8% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. Silsoe grades B− for history: #7 of 33 in Bedfordshire.
Silsoe in 6 photos
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Wrest ParkGrade I park or garden
Village Lock UpGrade II listed
Star and Garter Public HouseGrade II listed
17-25, High StreetGrade II listed
36, Ampthill RoadGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos 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.
Where Silsoe’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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.
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.
Of the 30 entries, 17 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
Most of Silsoe’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
27 entries (90%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories.
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.
30 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 30 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 14% of Silsoe
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
25 of the 30 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.
More than half of Silsoe’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 9 entries were listed in 1961. 18 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
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.
1 registered park or garden
Silsoe grades B− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
8% of Silsoe’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
7.9% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2009–15, which added 33% of today’s homes.
Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Silsoe
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silsoe | 3,419 | 30 | 0 | B− |
| Flitton | 1,531 | 13 | 2 | B+ |
| Clophill | 2,515 | 33 | 0 | B+ |
| Maulden | 2,486 | 20 | 0 | B− |
| Barton-le-Clay | 4,941 | 27 | 1 | C+ |
| Flitwick | 13,668 | 14 | 1 | C− |
| Shillington | 1,629 | 26 | 1 | A |
| Ampthill | 8,825 | 122 | 1 | A− |
Silsoe in brief
Silsoe has 30 listed buildings, including Wrest Park. On High Street alone there are 9 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1971. Of the whole list, 90% are houses, terraces and villas.
Its homes are mostly newer: 8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1985: 18 of 30. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Arthur Stewart Eve (1862) and Frank Cecil Eve (1871) were born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Silsoe’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Silsoe?
Historic England lists 30 buildings inside Silsoe’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 30 Grade II.
Which street in Silsoe has the most listed buildings?
High Street (9), Church Road (3) and West End Road (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Silsoe?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Newbury Farm moated enclosures and their associated fishponds and leats, Silsoe.
How many conservation areas are there in Silsoe?
1, covering about 12 hectares of the town. The largest is Silsoe.
When were Silsoe’s buildings listed?
The first in 1961; the most, 18, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Silsoe?
8% of homes were built before 1919 and 9.4% 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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