IChurch · listed 1966Church of St MichaelPhoto: Alan Simkins · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Nigel Stickells · CC BY-SA 2.0B+History Grade
History of Lavendon · Historic England
13 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Lavendon’s built-up area, 88 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 23% of its homes were built before 1919. Lavendon grades B+ for history.
Listed buildings
13
88 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
23%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Lavendon
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 Lavendon’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IScheduled monument
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
13 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*12 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 I
The Grade I listed building in Lavendon
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
12 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.
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 16% of Lavendon
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Lavendon 19798 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 49 ha inside the built-up area.
13 of the 13 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 Lavendon’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 10
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1966, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 10 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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.
History Grade
Lavendon 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 (17 points, 116 per 10,000 residents)More than 61% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (23%)More than 70% 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.
Homes by age
23% of Lavendon’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
21%
Before 1900
2.2%
1900–18
0%
1919–29
4.6%
1930s
6.9%
1945–54
2.2%
1955–64
15%
1965–72
9.2%
1973–82
5.7%
1983–92
10%
1993–99
4.6%
2000–08
1.1%
2009–15
17%
2016–25
LavendonEngland & Wales
21% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 17% 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.
Towns its size
Lavendon has the 95th most Grade I buildings of 1,778 towns its size
Places of 1,000–2,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Lavendon1
#804 of 1,778for listed buildings per resident (88 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.
94 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Lavendon
In brief
Lavendon in brief
More of Lavendon’s homes are old than in most places: 23% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 13 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Only 94 of the 1,778 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.
A conservation area has protected part of it since 1979. The big year was 1984, when 10 of the 13 went on the list. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Lavendon’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Lavendon?
Historic England lists 13 buildings inside Lavendon’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 12 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Lavendon?
One: Church of St Michael.
Are there scheduled monuments in Lavendon?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including The Bury: a ringwork and associated earthworks 100m north of Lavendon Church.
How many conservation areas are there in Lavendon?
1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Lavendon.
When were Lavendon’s buildings listed?
The first in 1966; the most, 10, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Lavendon?
23% of homes were built before 1919 and 28% 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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