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History of Lode · Historic England

15 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Lode’s built-up area, 223 for every 10,000 residents. All of Lode’s listed buildings are Grade II. 24% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
15
223 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
24%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Lode’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

15 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*15 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 II

15 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 15 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 29% of Lode

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Lode 19739 ha
9 hain conservation areas, of 32 ha inside the built-up area.

13 of the 15 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 Lode’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1984 · 12
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 12 entries were listed in 1984. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

24% of Lode’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

23%
Before 1900
1.8%
1900–18
2.9%
1919–29
2.9%
1930s
6.6%
1945–54
15%
1955–64
12%
1965–72
7.7%
1973–82
13%
1983–92
3.6%
1993–99
5.5%
2000–08
1.1%
2009–15
4.7%
2016–25
LodeEngland & Wales

23% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 15% 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 (8 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Lode

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Lode672150—
Bottisham1,990201B−
Waterbeach5,375160C
Milton4,150160C
Fulbourn3,737470B
Burwell5,912591B+
Cambridge152,74283267A−
Exning2,049171B+
In brief

Lode in brief

Old houses are part of Lode’s character: 24% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 15 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1984: 12 of 15.

Questions about Lode’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Lode?

Historic England lists 15 buildings inside Lode’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 15 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Lode?

1, covering about 9 hectares of the town. The largest is Lode.

When were Lode’s buildings listed?

The first in 1984; the most, 12, in 1984.

How old are the homes in Lode?

24% of homes were built before 1919 and 30% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Lode has no History Grade.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.