IHouse · listed 1951Hartwell HousePhoto: Giano · Public domain
Hartwell House · Photo: Giano · Public domainBHistory Grade
History of Stoke Mandeville · Historic England
31 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Stoke Mandeville’s built-up area, 109 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Stoke Mandeville, 28 are Grade II. 8.1% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings. Stoke Mandeville grades B for history: #20 of 39 in Buckinghamshire.
Listed buildings
31
109 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
8.1%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Stoke Mandeville
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St MaryGrade II* listed
Bugle Horn InnGrade II listed
Church of St MaryGrade 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 Stoke Mandeville’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
31 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I2 Grade II*28 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 Stoke Mandeville
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*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Stoke Mandeville
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed.
II*Church · listed 1967St Mary's Church, HartwellOn the list as Church of St MaryPhoto: Rbirkby at en · CC BY-SA 3.0
House · listed 1951Stable Block and Coachhouse South West of Hartwell House
What’s protected
Most of Stoke Mandeville’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas25
Inns, shops & warehouses2
Churches, chapels & priories2
Walls, gates & bridges2
25 entries (81%) 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
28 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 28 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Bailliff's HouseBell Cottage and Tudor CottageBrook CottageBugle Horn InnChurch of St MaryEntrance Arch and Gates Adjoining Park LodgeFleet CottageGarden Wall and Porch South of Stable Block Hartwell HouseGardner's CottageGlebe HouseLone AshMagpie CottageMalthouse FarmhouseManor CottageOak Tree HouseOld Moat FarmhousePark LodgeSilverbrook CottageSpencer CottageSt Mary's CottageStoke CottageStoke HouseThe Old RectoryThe Thatched CottageThe Woolpack InnWillow ThatchYew Tree Farmhouse7, 9 and 11, Risborough Road
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 3% of Stoke Mandeville
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Hartwell 199112 ha
12 hain conservation areas, of 422 ha inside the built-up area.
11 of the 31 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 Stoke Mandeville’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1985 · 191951 · 8
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 8 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 19 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 registered park or garden
Hartwell HouseGrade II*
History Grade
Stoke Mandeville 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 (37 points, 130 per 10,000 residents)More than 72% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (8.1%)More than 19% 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
8.1% of Stoke Mandeville’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
6.9%
Before 1900
1.1%
1900–18
4.1%
1919–29
6.9%
1930s
4.6%
1945–54
4.5%
1955–64
6.9%
1965–72
11%
1973–82
5.7%
1983–92
6.4%
1993–99
11%
2000–08
0.2%
2009–15
31%
2016–25
Stoke MandevilleEngland & Wales
6.9% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 31% 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 (14 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Stoke Mandeville has the 92nd most Grade I buildings of 1,256 towns its size
Places of 2,000–5,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Stoke Mandeville1
#332 of 1,256for listed buildings per resident (109 per 10,000). Painswick, Sandwich and Chipping Campden lead.
91 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Stoke Mandeville
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stoke Mandeville | 2,855 | 31 | 1 | B |
| Weston Turville | 1,835 | 44 | 1 | B+ |
| Aylesbury | 87,966 | 180 | 1 | C+ |
| Broughton | 2,168 | 3 | 0 | D |
| Wendover | 8,729 | 94 | 0 | B+ |
| Bierton | 1,251 | 20 | 1 | B− |
| Aston Clinton | 5,511 | 40 | 0 | B |
| Stone | 2,081 | 20 | 0 | B |
In brief
Stoke Mandeville in brief
Stoke Mandeville has 31 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Hartwell House. Only 91 of the 1,256 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1991. Most entries on the list, 81%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Its homes are mostly newer: 8.1% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1985, when 19 of the 31 went on the list. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Stoke Mandeville’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Stoke Mandeville?
Historic England lists 31 buildings inside Stoke Mandeville’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 28 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Stoke Mandeville?
One: Hartwell House.
How many conservation areas are there in Stoke Mandeville?
1, covering about 12 hectares of the town. The largest is Hartwell.
When were Stoke Mandeville’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 19, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Stoke Mandeville?
8.1% of homes were built before 1919 and 19% 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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