II*Church · listed 1967Parish Church of St AndrewOn the list as Parish Church of St. AndrewPhoto: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 4.0
Parish Church of St. Andrew · Photo: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 4.0–Not graded
History of Boxford · Historic England
Old homes in Boxford: 59% built before 1919
For Boxford, that is 4 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Historic England lists 33 buildings inside Boxford’s built-up area, 1,793 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
33
1,793 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
59%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Boxford
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 Boxford’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
33 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*32 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 Boxford
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Boxford’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas25
Churches, chapels & priories6
Inns, shops & warehouses1
Street furniture1
25 entries (76%) are houses, terraces and villas. 6 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.
Grade II
32 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 32 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Beach Tomb Approximately 9 Yards South of Nave of St Andrews ChurchBorrowdaleBoxford HouseBoxford MillBrook CottageButcher Tomb 1 Yard South of Nave of St Andrews ChurchClerks Tree CottageDowns CottageEassell Tomb Approximately 2 Yards to East of Chancel of St Andrews ChurchElm CottageHolly CottageHoneysuckle CottageHop CottageLittle ThatchManor CottageOliver Sansoms CottageOutbuildings Approximately 5 Yards to South West of Oliver Sansoms CottagePoplar CottagePrimrose CottagePump CottageRiver CottageShepherd's CottageStable Block 15 Yards to South of Westbrook HouseStable and Haystore Approximately 20 Yards to South West of Oliver Sansoms CottageStream CottageThe BarnTomb Approximately 13 Yards to South of Nave of St Andrews ChurchTomb Approximately 2 Yards East of Chancel of St Andrews ChurchWestbrook HouseWhite CottageWindle CottageWoodmansfield Cottages
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 27% of Boxford
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Boxford and Westbrook7 ha
7 hain conservation areas, of 28 ha inside the built-up area.
29 of the 33 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
16 of Boxford’s 33 listed buildings were added in 1969
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1969 · 161983 · 12
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 4 entries were listed in 1967. 16 came in 1969, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
59% of Boxford’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
50%
Before 1900
9.2%
1900–18
3.9%
1919–29
3.9%
1930s
3.9%
1945–54
5.3%
1955–64
3.9%
1965–72
1.3%
1973–82
6.6%
1983–92
1.3%
1993–99
5.3%
2000–08
1.3%
2009–15
3.9%
2016–25
BoxfordEngland & Wales
50% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1900–18, which added 9.2% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Boxford
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boxford | 184 | 33 | 0 | — |
| Kintbury | 2,054 | 16 | 0 | B+ |
| Newbury | 42,262 | 273 | 4 | B+ |
| Cold Ash | 2,267 | 9 | 0 | C |
| Hermitage | 2,224 | 1 | 0 | D |
| Hungerford | 5,184 | 93 | 0 | A− |
| Woolton Hill and Highclere | 2,755 | 7 | 0 | C+ |
| Thatcham | 25,537 | 39 | 1 | C |
In brief
Boxford in brief
Old houses are part of Boxford’s character: 59% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 33 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 76% are houses, terraces and villas.
Questions about Boxford’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Boxford?
Historic England lists 33 buildings inside Boxford’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 32 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Boxford?
1, covering about 7 hectares of the town. The largest is Boxford and Westbrook.
When were Boxford’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 16, in 1969.
How old are the homes in Boxford?
59% of homes were built before 1919 and 66% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Boxford has no History Grade.
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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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