IChurch · listed 1967Church of St LawrenceOn the list as Church of St LaurencePhoto: Cruccone · CC BY 3.0
Church of St Laurence · Photo: Cruccone · CC BY 3.0B+History Grade
History of Foxton · Historic England
27 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Foxton’s built-up area, 212 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 26 of Foxton’s listed buildings. 12% of its homes were built before 1919. Foxton grades B+ for history.
Listed buildings
27
212 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
12%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Foxton’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
27 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*26 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 Foxton
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 Foxton’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas24
Street furniture2
Churches, chapels & priories1
24 entries (89%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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
26 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 26 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn at Number 59Baron's FarmhouseCarshalton CottageCottage on the GreenCottesmoreFoxton HouseHome FarmhouseMichael HouseOrchard CottagePound CottageSeverallsThe BuryThe Malt HouseWater PumpWater Pump1 and 3, Mortimers Lane1, High Street1, The Green18, High Street18, Station Road20, Fowlmere Road22, Station Road3, High Street32, 34, High Street44, 46, High Street73 and 75, High Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 28% of Foxton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Foxton 197218 ha
18 hain conservation areas, of 63 ha inside the built-up area.
26 of the 27 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 Foxton’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1985 · 141967 · 9
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The first 9 entries were listed in 1967, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 14 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Foxton 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 (29 points, 227 per 10,000 residents)More than 75% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (12%)More than 34% 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
Foxton has the 88th most Grade I buildings of 1,901 towns its size
Places of 1,000–2,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Foxton1
#433 of 1,901for listed buildings per resident (212 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.
87 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Foxton
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foxton | 1,275 | 27 | 1 | B+ |
| Barrington | 1,184 | 48 | 1 | A− |
| Fowlmere | 1,295 | 33 | 1 | B+ |
| Harston | 1,827 | 15 | 0 | B |
| Haslingfield | 1,535 | 50 | 1 | B+ |
| Meldreth | 1,823 | 36 | 1 | B+ |
| Melbourn | 4,907 | 75 | 0 | B+ |
| Hauxton | 1,322 | 9 | 1 | C |
In brief
Foxton in brief
Foxton has 27 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Only 87 of the 1,901 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1972.
Of the whole list, 89% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1985: 14 of 27. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Foxton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Foxton?
Historic England lists 27 buildings inside Foxton’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 26 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Foxton?
One: Church of St Laurence.
How many conservation areas are there in Foxton?
1, covering about 18 hectares of the town. The largest is Foxton.
When were Foxton’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 14, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Foxton?
12% of homes were built before 1919 and 21% 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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