IChurch · listed 1967Parish Church of St Peter and St PaulPhoto: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: John Sutton · CC BY-SA 2.0B+History Grade
History of Bassingbourn · Historic England
51 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Bassingbourn’s built-up area, 217 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 13% of its homes were built before 1919. Bassingbourn grades B+ for history.
Listed buildings
51
217 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
13%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Bassingbourn
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 Bassingbourn’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.
51 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*50 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 Bassingbourn
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.
What’s protected
Most of Bassingbourn’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas38
Inns, shops & warehouses5
Churches, chapels & priories4
Public & civic buildings3
Walls, gates & bridges1
38 entries (75%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
50 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 50 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn Circa 18 Metres to East of Number 10 (Manor Farmhouse)Barn to North of Number 47Barns, Coach House, Bakehouse and Maltings Circa 5 Metres South of Number 29 (South End House)Bramley CottageCart Sheds and Stable Circa 35 Metres to South East of Number 10 (Manor Farmhouse)Church CottageChurch Farm House, Attached Wall and Gate Piers to South Boundary of GardenControl Tower, Bassingbourn Barracks (Former RAF Bassingbourn)Crown HouseDovecot Circa 55 Metres to South East of Number 29 (South End House)Fern CottageGarden House Circa 15 Metres to South West of Number 10 (Manor Farmhouse)Guise CourtLilac CottageManor FarmhouseMilestone Circa 15 Metres South of Bassingbourn BarracksMillMill HouseNew United Reformed ChurchOld Saddlers the Red HousePark CottagePoplar FarmhouseRed HouseRolling MillSmall Barn Circa 5 Metres North East of Number 74 (Red House)Small Barn Circa 5 Metres South East Number 76Small Barn Circa 7 Metres North of Number 28 (Park Cottage)South CottageSouth End HouseStables Circa 15 Metres South West of Number 10 (Manor Farmhouse)Tan HouseTanyersThe BeechesThe Hoops Public HouseThe LimesTurnstile CottageUnited Reformed ChurchWhite HouseWilco House1, Brook Road10, South End35 and 37 High Street and attached former Bakehouse and Granary (outhouse to rear of 35 and 37 not included)43, South End5 and 7, Spring Lane53, South End59 and 61, High Street60 and 62, South End76, South End81, High Street83, High Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 17% of Bassingbourn
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Bassingbourn 197328 ha
28 hain conservation areas, of 161 ha inside the built-up area.
47 of the 51 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 Bassingbourn’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 391967 · 5
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The first 5 entries were listed in 1967, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 39 came in 1986, 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.
History Grade
Bassingbourn 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 (55 points, 234 per 10,000 residents)More than 83% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (13%)More than 36% 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.
Towns its size
Bassingbourn has the 89th most Grade I buildings of 1,374 towns its size
Places of 1,000–4,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Bassingbourn1
#183 of 1,374for listed buildings per resident (217 per 10,000). Burford, Painswick and Chipping Campden lead.
88 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Bassingbourn
In brief
Bassingbourn in brief
Per resident, Bassingbourn has more listed heritage than 83% of UK towns. In all there are 51 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Only 88 of the 1,374 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973.
Of the whole list, 75% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1986: 39 of 51. The rest is about typical: it also has a scheduled monument; and 13% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Bassingbourn’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Bassingbourn?
Historic England lists 51 buildings inside Bassingbourn’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 50 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Bassingbourn?
One: Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul.
Are there scheduled monuments in Bassingbourn?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Bury Yard moated site adjacent to Milldyke.
How many conservation areas are there in Bassingbourn?
1, covering about 28 hectares of the town. The largest is Bassingbourn.
When were Bassingbourn’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 39, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Bassingbourn?
13% of homes were built before 1919 and 20% 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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