II*Church · listed 1955Church of St PaulPhoto: UKgeofan · CC BY-SA 3.0
Church of St Paul · Photo: UKgeofan · CC BY-SA 3.0BHistory Grade
History of Bourne End · Historic England
43 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Bourne End’s built-up area, 60 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Bourne End, 41 are Grade II. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. 16% of its homes were built before 1919. Bourne End grades B for history: #12 of 39 in Buckinghamshire.
Listed buildings
43
60 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
16%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Bourne End in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Hedsor HouseGrade II park or garden
The Walnut Trees Public HouseGrade II listed
Spade Oak FarmhouseGrade II listed
Toll House Adjacent to Cookham BridgeGrade II listed
The Heart in HandGrade 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.
The map
Where Bourne End’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade II*Park or garden
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 6neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 34% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
43 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*41 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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).
Grade II*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Bourne End
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
House · listed 1955Cores End Cottage Cores End House
What’s protected
Most of Bourne End’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas34
Churches, chapels & priories3
Public & civic buildings3
Walls, gates & bridges2
Inns, shops & warehouses1
34 entries (79%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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
41 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 41 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Abbey Cottage Abbots Willow Jasmyne CottageBarn to North West of Well End FarmhouseBoscobel Boscobel BarnBridge CottageClarence CottageColdmoorholm CottageCores End United Reformed ChurchDell HouseHawks Hill HouseHeavensleaHollandsJeffriesLadymead CottageLittle Rose Cottage Rose CottageLong Woodcocks Waggoners CottageLord Boston's FollyMalt Cottage Vine Leigh CottageMay CottageMulberry House the Old VicarageOak CottageOld Bakery CottageOld Bartons the Randolph's UpstepsOld ThatchQuantingsRed CottageSchool HouseSeptember Cottage Wayside CottageSpade Oak FarmhouseThe Barn the Old School HouseThe FriaryThe HarrowThe Heart in HandThe Old BellThe Old ForgeThe Old Malt House Vine Leigh HouseThe Old SchoolThe Thatched CottageThe Walnut Trees Public HouseToll House Adjacent to Cookham BridgeWell End FarmhouseWells Cottage
Conservation areas
5 conservation areas cover 19% of Bourne End
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Hedsor Road and Riversdale 198634 ha
Abbotsbrook 198118 ha
Wooburn Town 19714 ha
Well End 19714 ha
No data available for publication by HE3 ha
62 hain conservation areas, of 328 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Wooburn Town and Well End, were designated in 1971; the newest, Hedsor Road and Riversdale, in 1986. 27 of the 43 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
More than half of Bourne End’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1987 · 231955 · 16
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The first 16 entries were listed in 1955. 23 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
Hedsor HouseGrade II
History Grade
Bourne End grades B for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (46 points, 64 per 10,000 residents)More than 66% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (16%)More than 49% of 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.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bourne End
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourne End | 7,166 | 43 | 0 | B |
| Flackwell Heath and Wooburn Green | 12,438 | 29 | 0 | C+ |
| Cookham | 5,216 | 54 | 0 | A |
| Marlow | 14,641 | 167 | 2 | B+ |
| Beaconsfield | 14,142 | 153 | 0 | B+ |
| Marlow Bottom | 3,339 | 3 | 0 | D− |
| High Wycombe | 83,541 | 136 | 2 | B− |
| Maidenhead | 67,391 | 72 | 5 | B− |
In brief
Bourne End in brief
Bourne End has 43 listed buildings, including Church of St Paul. Its older streets lie in 5 conservation areas, the first designated in 1971. Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1987, when 23 of the 43 went on the list. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Fred Speller (1863) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Bourne End’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bourne End?
Historic England lists 43 buildings inside Bourne End’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 41 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Bourne End?
5, covering about 62 hectares of the town. The largest are Hedsor Road and Riversdale and Abbotsbrook.
When were Bourne End’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 23, in 1987.
How old are the homes in Bourne End?
16% of homes were built before 1919 and 25% 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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