IChurch · listed 1961Church of St GeorgePhoto: Geoff Pick · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church of St George · Photo: Geoff Pick · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Dittisham · Historic England
Old homes in Dittisham: 46% built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Dittisham has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 48 buildings inside Dittisham’s built-up area, 2,513 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
48
2,513 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
46%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Dittisham’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.
48 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*47 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 Dittisham
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.
What’s protected
Most of Dittisham’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas28
Walls, gates & bridges12
Churches, chapels & priories4
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Public & civic buildings1
28 entries (58%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 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
47 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 47 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Bay Cottage Including Front Garden Wall to EastBerry CottageChurch Cottage LychgateCottage Including Garden Boundary Wall and Gate Immediately EastCraig CottageCrooks Cottage Crooks Cottage and Fishermans Cottage Including Front Area Wall and Railings Fishermans CottageDart Cottage Higher DartDartsideDeedas Cottage Including Front Garden Area Wall to SouthDittisham CourtDittisham GreendaleDittisham Rose Mount Dittisham Rose Mount, Meadow View, Lilac Cottage Including Garden Area Retaining Walls in Front Lilac Cottage Meadow ViewDittisham ThornwellDunedin CottageDunedin HouseFern CottageFerry ViewGlendale CottagesGreenway View Passage HouseHighclereHill CrestHolly House Including Front Garden Area Wall to EastIvydeneLaburnum CottageLapwing Cottage Including Front Garden Wall to SouthLychgate South West of Church of St GeorgeLyndhurstManor Cottage Including Garden Area Wall Immediately to SouthMill Creek CottageMyrtle Cottage Including Front Garden Area Wall, Railings Gate Piers and ParterresQuay CottageQuay and SlipwayRed Rose CottageRose GroveSmugglers CottageSt AnnesSunny BankSunnydale Cottage Including Front Area Railings and Gate PiersThe Cider CottageThe Ferry Boat InnThe NookThe Old Bake HouseThe Old Brew HouseTrist Headstone About 3 Metres West of South Porch of Church of St GeorgeTunisWall on South Side of Churchyard of Church of St GeorgeWatermans Cottages
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Dittisham
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 HE38 ha
38 hain conservation areas, of 38 ha inside the built-up area.
48 of the 48 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 Dittisham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1993
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1993 · 391961 · 7
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The first 7 entries were listed in 1961, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 39 came in 1993. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
46% of Dittisham’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
44%
Before 1900
1.9%
1900–18
1%
1919–29
1.9%
1930s
3.8%
1945–54
5.7%
1955–64
6.7%
1965–72
9.5%
1973–82
5.7%
1983–92
1.9%
1993–99
5.7%
2000–08
3.8%
2009–15
8.6%
2016–25
DittishamEngland & Wales
44% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 9.5% 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 (1 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Dittisham
In brief
Dittisham in brief
More of Dittisham’s homes are old than in most places: 46% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 48 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 58%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1993, when 39 of the 48 went on the list.
Questions about Dittisham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Dittisham?
Historic England lists 48 buildings inside Dittisham’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 47 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Dittisham?
One: Church of St George.
How many conservation areas are there in Dittisham?
1, covering about 38 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Dittisham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1961; the most, 39, in 1993.
How old are the homes in Dittisham?
46% of homes were built before 1919 and 48% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Dittisham 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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