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History of Brill · Historic England

53 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Historic England counts them inside Brill’s built-up area, 898 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 41% of its homes were built before 1919.

2Grade II*1scheduled monument 9on Temple Street

Listed buildings

898 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

41%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Brill

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Church of All SaintsGrade II* listed

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 Brill’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Grade II*Scheduled monument

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

53 listed buildings by grade

0 Grade I2 Grade II*51 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 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Brill

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Church · listed 1967Church of All SaintsPhoto: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1951Flats the Manor House

Historic streets

The Temple Street and The Square have 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.

Temple Street9 listed

The Square9 listed

Church Street5 listed

Of the 53 entries, 29 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Brill’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas42

Walls, gates & bridges3

Public & civic buildings2

Churches, chapels & priories2

Street furniture2

Inns, shops & warehouses1

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

42 entries (79%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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

51 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 51 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Bernwode House Brill House Brill Memorial Hall Exchange House Gate Piers at Manor Farm House K6 Telephone Kiosk Kings Ride House Manor Farm House Outbuilding to Rear of Number 4 Rose Cottage Stable Block Circa 20 Metres to North East of the Manor House Sun Hotel The Little Granary the Old Bakehouse The Manse The Old Plough The Old Swan The Old Vicarage, And Railings to Front The Red Lion United Reformed Church Walls to Forecourt and Garden of the Manor House, With Piers and Summerhouse War Memorial Waterloo House Including Curved Flanking Walls, Railings and Six Gate Piers 1 and 5, High Street 1, The Square 10, Temple Street 10,11 and 12, The Square 12, Church Street 14 and 15, The Square 15 and 17, Temple Street 15,16 and 17, The Green 17, Church Street 18, Windmill Street 2, Church Street 2, Temple Street 2, The Square 20, Temple Street 22,24 and 26, Church Street 28 and 30, Church Street 30 and 31, The Square 32, The Square 4, Temple Street 40, Windmill Street 5 and 6, The Square 5, The Green 55 and 57, Temple Street 59, Temple Street 61, Temple Street 63 and 65, Temple Street 8, The Square 9, The Square 9,11 and 15, High Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 39% of Brill

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Brill 198014 ha

14 hain conservation areas, of 36 ha inside the built-up area.

52 of the 53 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 Brill’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1985 · 271967 · 141951 · 9

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 9 entries were listed in 1951. 27 came in 1985, 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 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.

Earthworks near Brill Church

Homes by age

41% of Brill’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

42%

Before 1900

1900–18

1919–29

1930s

11%

1945–54

13%

1955–64

7.1%

1965–72

7.1%

1973–82

11%

1983–92

1993–99

2000–08

2009–15

2016–25

BrillEngland & Wales

42% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 13% 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 (9 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Brill

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Brill	590	53	0	—
Oakley	1,129	13	0	B
Upper Arncott	1,659	4	0	C⁻
Long Crendon	2,495	108	1	A
Ambrosden	2,736	13	0	C
Waddesdon	1,859	16	0	A⁻
Thame	12,952	162	2	B⁺
Launton	1,374	23	1	B⁺

In brief

Brill in brief

Old houses are part of Brill’s character: 41% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 53 listed buildings. On Temple Street alone there are 9 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1980.

Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1985, when 27 of the 53 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Thomas Edwards (1863) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Brill’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Brill?

Historic England lists 53 buildings inside Brill’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 51 Grade II.

Which street in Brill has the most listed buildings?

Temple Street (9), The Square (9) and Church Street (5) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Brill?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Earthworks near Brill Church.

How many conservation areas are there in Brill?

1, covering about 14 hectares of the town. The largest is Brill.

When were Brill’s buildings listed?

The first in 1951; the most, 27, in 1985.

How old are the homes in Brill?

41% of homes were built before 1919 and 43% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Brill 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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