II*Church · listed 1967Church of St Mary the VirginPhoto: Acabashi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Bikeboy · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Arkesden · Historic England
24 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Arkesden’s built-up area, 640 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 23 of Arkesden’s listed buildings. 37% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
24
640 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
37%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Arkesden
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 Arkesden’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
24 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*23 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 II*
The Grade II* listed building in Arkesden
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Arkesden’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas18
Inns, shops & warehouses2
Churches, chapels & priories2
Public & civic buildings1
Street furniture1
18 entries (75%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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
23 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 23 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
ApplebeeAxe and Compasses InnBaileysBarnford CottageBox Tree Cottage Old Post CottageCanfield Reeds CottageChurch Green CottageDawsDeans Farm CottageGlebe CottageHill HouseJeffriesK6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Post OfficeParsonage CottagePen Y WynPump on Village GreenSextonsThatched CottageThatchesThe Green ManThe Old ForgeThe Old MaltingsWatts Folly
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 34% of Arkesden
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Arkesden 19778 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 24 ha inside the built-up area.
22 of the 24 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 Arkesden’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1980
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1980 · 20
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1967. 20 came in 1980, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
37% of Arkesden’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
36%
Before 1900
1.2%
1900–18
1.2%
1919–29
1.2%
1930s
11%
1945–54
6.5%
1955–64
7.7%
1965–72
7.7%
1973–82
5.4%
1983–92
5.4%
1993–99
5.4%
2000–08
5.4%
2009–15
6.5%
2016–25
ArkesdenEngland & Wales
36% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 11% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Arkesden
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkesden | 375 | 24 | 0 | — |
| Newport | 2,945 | 78 | 1 | A− |
| Saffron Walden | 16,609 | 321 | 6 | A |
| Great Chesterford | 1,775 | 68 | 1 | A |
| Henham | 1,046 | 58 | 1 | A |
| Elsenham | 3,414 | 28 | 0 | B− |
| Stansted Mountfitchet | 8,629 | 109 | 0 | A |
| Duxford | 2,216 | 37 | 2 | A− |
In brief
Arkesden in brief
Old houses are part of Arkesden’s character: 37% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 24 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1977. Most entries on the list, 75%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1980, when 20 of the 24 went on the list.
Questions about Arkesden’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Arkesden?
Historic England lists 24 buildings inside Arkesden’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 23 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Arkesden?
1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Arkesden.
When were Arkesden’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 20, in 1980.
How old are the homes in Arkesden?
37% of homes were built before 1919 and 40% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Arkesden 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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