109 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Cross Keys InnGrade II listedChatteris HouseGrade II listedChatteris War MemorialGrade II listedGeorge HotelGrade II listed+1See all photos

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.

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).

Of the 109 entries, 87 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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.

The first 3 entries were listed in 1950, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 96 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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.

Thomas Fryer

Daniel Hayward

Thomas Hayward

George Gunton

John Percy Farrar

George Herbert Farrar

Reginald Ruston

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Thomas Hayward1835–1876 · English cricketer (1835-1876)

John Percy Farrar1857–1929 · British mountain climber (1857-1929)

George Herbert Farrar1859–1915 · South African politician

DH

Daniel Hayward1832–1910 · English cricketer (1832-1910)

George Gunton1845–1919 · American labor unionist

TF

Thomas Fryer1793–1861 · English first-class cricketer

RR

Reginald Ruston1867–1963 · British Army officer

Everyone born in Chatteris → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Per resident, Chatteris has more listed heritage than 79% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 109 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Only 102 of the 652 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. High Street alone has 21 listed buildings.

A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 91%, are houses, terraces and villas. Thomas Hayward (1835), John Percy Farrar (1857) and George Herbert Farrar (1859) are among the 7 people born here before 1900. The rest is about typical: 15% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.