IChurch · listed 1959Church of St AndrewPhoto: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Fountain Public House · Photo: Bill Boaden · CC BY-SA 2.0BHistory Grade
History of Soham · Historic England
43 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Soham’s built-up area, 41 for every 10,000 residents. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 15% of its homes were built before 1919. Soham grades B for history: #25 of 50 in Cambridgeshire.
Listed buildings
43
41 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
15%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Soham in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St AndrewGrade I listed
Baptist ChapelGrade II listed
Addison HouseGrade II listed
War MemorialGrade II listed
Red Lion Public HouseGrade 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 Soham’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 7neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 30% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
43 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*41 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. 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).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Soham
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 Grade II* listed building in Soham
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
House · listed 1951Manor House
Historic streets
Hall Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Hall Street4 listed
High Street3 listed
Pratt Street3 listed
Of the 43 entries, 20 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Soham’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas30
Churches, chapels & priories5
Memorials, crosses & tombs4
Public & civic buildings2
Street furniture1
Inns, shops & warehouses1
30 entries (70%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 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
41 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 41 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Aberdeen HouseAddison HouseAnglican ChapelBaptist ChapelCauseway Cottage and Causeway HouseChurch of England Primary School and School HouseCoach House and Stables to the VicarageCopperfieldCross Green HouseFairfield LodgeK6 Telephone KioskMereside CottageNonconformist ChapelRed Lion Public HouseSt Andrews HouseSteelyard at the Fountain InnSundial HouseThe Fountain Public HouseThe HallUnited Reformed ChurchWar Memorial1, 3 and 5, White Hart Lane11, Pratt Street13, Pratt Street19 and 21 Hall Street2, Clay Street2, Sand Street29 and 31, Clay Street3 and 5, Townsend30, Hall Street33 and 35, Paddock Street34 and 36, Pratt Street39 and 41, Sand Street48, High Street5, Churchgate Street6, Churchgate Street6, High Street62 and 64 Hall Street66, Hall Street8, High Street9 and 11, Townsend
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 17% of Soham
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Soham 197447 ha
47 hain conservation areas, of 281 ha inside the built-up area.
39 of the 43 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 Soham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1983 · 36
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1951. 36 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Soham 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 (46 points, 43 per 10,000 residents)More than 61% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (15%)More than 44% 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
Soham has the 105th most Grade I buildings of 664 towns its size
Places of 6,000–17,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Soham1
#235 of 664for listed buildings per resident (41 per 10,000). Brecon, Malmesbury and Ludlow lead.
104 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Soham
In brief
Soham in brief
The official list counts 43 listed buildings in Soham, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Andrew. Only 104 of the 664 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1974.
Of the whole list, 70% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1983: 36 of 43. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; George Edgar Dennes (1817) was born here before 1900; and 15% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Soham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Soham?
Historic England lists 43 buildings inside Soham’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 41 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Soham?
One: Church of St Andrew.
Which street in Soham has the most listed buildings?
Hall Street (4), High Street (3) and Pratt Street (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
How many conservation areas are there in Soham?
1, covering about 47 hectares of the town. The largest is Soham.
When were Soham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 36, in 1983.
How old are the homes in Soham?
15% 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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