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History of Flushing · Historic England

43 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Flushing’s built-up area, 577 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 38% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
43
577 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
38%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Flushing’s history is

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

Wayside cross in St Peter's churchyard, Flushing, scheduled monument
Scheduled monument

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

43 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*43 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.

What’s protected

Most of Flushing’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas37
Walls, gates & bridges2
Churches, chapels & priories1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Public & civic buildings1
Street furniture1

37 entries (86%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories.

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

43 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 43 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 18% of Flushing

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

Flushing 19796 ha
6 hain conservation areas, of 34 ha inside the built-up area.

33 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 Flushing’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986

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

1986 · 281967 · 14
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 14 entries were listed in 1967. 28 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.

Homes by age

38% of Flushing’s homes were built before 1919

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

38%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
2.4%
1919–29
2.4%
1930s
7.3%
1945–54
7.3%
1955–64
16%
1965–72
8.5%
1973–82
6.1%
1983–92
3.7%
1993–99
2.4%
2000–08
1.2%
2009–15
4.9%
2016–25
FlushingEngland & Wales

38% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 16% 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 (5 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Flushing

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Flushing745430—
Falmouth24,0662090A
Mylor Bridge1,534381A
Penryn11,1942100A
Perranarworthal1,305540A+
Carnon Downs and Devoran2,129240A−
Mawnan Smith1,001100B+
Stithians1,613200A
In brief

Flushing in brief

More of Flushing’s homes are old than in most places: 38% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 43 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1979.

Of the whole list, 86% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1986: 28 of 43. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Harrison Hayter (1825) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Flushing’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Flushing?

Historic England lists 43 buildings inside Flushing’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 43 Grade II.

Are there scheduled monuments in Flushing?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Wayside cross in St Peter's churchyard, Flushing.

How many conservation areas are there in Flushing?

1, covering about 6 hectares of the town. The largest is Flushing.

When were Flushing’s buildings listed?

The first in 1967; the most, 28, in 1986.

How old are the homes in Flushing?

38% of homes were built before 1919 and 43% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Flushing 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.

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