IChurch · listed 1987Church of St AnietusPhoto: Necrothesp · CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of St Neot · Historic England
Old homes in St Neot: 55% built before 1919
Against 15% in the typical town, St Neot has 4 times the share. Historic England lists 16 buildings inside St Neot’s built-up area, 518 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Listed buildings
16
518 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
55%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of St Neot
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
The map
Where St Neot’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IScheduled monument
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
16 listed buildings by grade
1 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 I
The Grade I listed building in St Neot
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
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
Carlyon HouseCottCross in the Churchyard About 8 Metres South of South Aisle of Church of St AnietusDangar Monument in the Churchyard About 13 Metres South of South Aisle of Church of St AnietusDye CottageK6 Telephone KioskLine Monument in the Churchyard Against the South Wall of South Aisle of Church of St AnietusManor HouseMorshead Monument in the Churchyard Attached to East Wall of South Aisle of Church of St AnietusRobyns Monument in the Churchyard About 6 Metres South of South Aisle of Church of St AnietusSibley Monument in the Churchyard About 10 Metres South of South Aisle of Church of St AnietusSt Neot BridgeSt Neot War MemorialThe Post OfficeWalls Enclosing the Churchyard of Church of St Anietus Ot West and South, 2 Gateways to West and South East
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 19% of St Neot
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
St Neot 19805 ha
5 hain conservation areas, of 28 ha inside the built-up area.
16 of the 16 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 St Neot’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1987 · 13
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1964. 13 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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.
2 scheduled monuments
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
55% of St Neot’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
56%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
1.4%
1919–29
2.7%
1930s
1.4%
1945–54
1.4%
1955–64
8.2%
1965–72
8.2%
1973–82
5.4%
1983–92
4.1%
1993–99
5.4%
2000–08
1.4%
2009–15
4.1%
2016–25
St NeotEngland & Wales
56% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 8.2% 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 (10 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around St Neot
In brief
St Neot in brief
More of St Neot’s homes are old than in most places: 55% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 16 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1980. The big year was 1987, when 13 of the 16 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Questions about St Neot’s history
How many listed buildings are there in St Neot?
Historic England lists 16 buildings inside St Neot’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 15 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in St Neot?
One: Church of St Anietus.
Are there scheduled monuments in St Neot?
Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Churchyard cross and three wayside crosses in St Neot churchyard and Trewane Cross in St Neot churchyard.
How many conservation areas are there in St Neot?
1, covering about 5 hectares of the town. The largest is St Neot.
When were St Neot’s buildings listed?
The first in 1964; the most, 13, in 1987.
How old are the homes in St Neot?
55% of homes were built before 1919 and 60% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
St Neot has no History Grade.
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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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