IChurch · listed 1960Church of St MaryPhoto: Gwyn Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: David Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Brixton · Historic England
8 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Brixton’s built-up area, 93 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 7 of Brixton’s listed buildings. 11% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
8
93 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
11%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Brixton
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 Brixton’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.
8 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*7 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 Brixton
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
7 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 7 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Brixton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
No data available for publication by HE45 ha
45 hain conservation areas, of 45 ha inside the built-up area.
8 of the 8 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.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Brixton
In brief
Brixton in brief
Brixton has 8 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area protects part of it. Beyond that, Tristram Coffin (1605) and Samuel Rowe (1793) were born here before 1900; the list grew between 1960 and 2016; and 11% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Brixton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Brixton?
Historic England lists 8 buildings inside Brixton’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 7 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Brixton?
One: Church of St Mary.
How many conservation areas are there in Brixton?
1, covering about 45 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
How old are the homes in Brixton?
11% of homes were built before 1919 and 13% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Brixton 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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