IChurch · listed 1961Church of All SaintsPhoto: Stanley Walker · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: JThomas · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Kenton · Historic England
Kenton: 49% of homes built before 1919
For Kenton, that is 3 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Historic England lists 35 buildings inside Kenton’s built-up area, 375 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
35
375 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
49%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Kenton
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 Kenton’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
35 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*33 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 Kenton
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 Kenton
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*House · listed 1952Leslie HousePhoto: Simon Cobb · CC0
What’s protected
Most of Kenton’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas21
Churches, chapels & priories4
Public & civic buildings4
Walls, gates & bridges2
Street furniture2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Inns, shops & warehouses1
21 entries (60%) 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
33 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 33 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Brookside and Brookside CottageChest Tomb About 8 Metres South East of the Porch of the Church of All SaintsChurchyard Walls Including a Pair of Gates to the South and a Pair to the North West of the Church of All SaintsFord FarmhouseFurse Chest Tomb About 18 Metres North of the Vestry Door of the Church of All SaintsHanningfields, Little Warborough and South Warborough HouseHigh HouseHouse in West Corner of the ChurchyardK6 Telephone KioskKenton SchoolKenton War MemorialLodge About 600 Metres Sw of Powderham Castle at Ngr 964 832Middle Court and Court HallMilestone Opposite the Old Jail HouseNumbers 1 and 2 Marsh FarmNumbers 1, 2 and 3 Southtown CottagesPeacock CottagePenhayesPolruan and House Adjoining at the WestSeasons, Cambridge House, Welcome Cottage and One Un-NamedSouth View CottageSouthtown GardensStudd Chest Tomb in North-East Corner of the Churchyard of the Church of All SaintsThe Almshouses Including Garden Wall and Gate Piers in FrontThe Old Estate OfficeThe Old Jail HouseThe Old VicarageTrelawnTrinity Cottage, The Corner Shop and House Adjoining Trinity Cottage at the North WestWoodpecker Cottage1-9, Church Street16-21, High Street3 Cottages Immediately North of Ford Farmhouse
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 11% of Kenton
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Kenton 19935 ha
5 hain conservation areas, of 42 ha inside the built-up area.
20 of the 35 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 Kenton’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1988
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1988 · 27
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1952. 27 came in 1988, 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.
1 registered park or garden
Powderham CastleGrade II*
Homes by age
49% of Kenton’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
46%
Before 1900
2.7%
1900–18
1.4%
1919–29
5.2%
1930s
3.9%
1945–54
3.9%
1955–64
5.2%
1965–72
11%
1973–82
13%
1983–92
3.9%
1993–99
3.9%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
KentonEngland & Wales
46% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 13% 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 (17 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Kenton
In brief
Kenton in brief
More of Kenton’s homes are old than in most places: 49% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 35 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1993.
Most entries on the list, 60%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1988, when 27 of the 35 went on the list. The rest is about typical: Edith Splatt (1873) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Kenton’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Kenton?
Historic England lists 35 buildings inside Kenton’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 33 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Kenton?
One: Church of All Saints.
How many conservation areas are there in Kenton?
1, covering about 5 hectares of the town. The largest is Kenton.
When were Kenton’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 27, in 1988.
How old are the homes in Kenton?
49% of homes were built before 1919 and 55% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Kenton 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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